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Sincere appreciation to a donor from Singapore who donated cold and fever medicines for villagers living in the remote area of Himalaya. May Buddha blessing be with the donor and family. Thank you. 🙏

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SIGNS OF REALIZATION AND BUDDHAHOOD ATTAINMENT (RELICS)

According Buddha Dharma in general and Great Perfection (tib. rdzogs chen l རྫོགས་ཆེན།) teaching in particular, after great practitioner is liberated and passes to nirvana, the holy relics are found in the cremation ashes. These are the proof of enlightenment attained in this very life or in the luminous bardo of dharmata (Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo).  These holy items are the material support of blessing.

According Great Perfection tantras, there are few types of such relics: (1) Bone ones with mantras or icons of peaceful and wrathful deities (tib. Zhi Khro ཞི་ཁྲོ), they mean the liberation in moment of death; (2) "Relics Dung" (tib. gdung གདུང།) mean the enlightenment and liberation in the luminous bardo of dharmata (tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo); (3) "Relics Ringsel" (ring bsrel ། རིང་བསྲེལ།)  mean the rebirth in the pure lands of natural Nirmanakaya.

From Dzogchen Tantra "Blazing Relics" (tib. sku gdung bar ba སྐུ་གདུང་འབར་བ):

གང་དག་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་ན། །དེ་ལ་སྐུ་དང་གདུང་དང་ནི། །དེ་བཞིན་འོད་དང་སྒྲ་ཉིད་དང༌། །ས་ནི་གཡོ་བར་འགྱུར་བའོ། །

   " Those who passed to nirvana would leave behind, in cremation ashes the icons of Bodies and Dung Relics (tib. gdung གདུང ), light and rainbows, earth would shake …"

Further, we read in the same tantra that Dung Relics can be of five colours, referring five buddha families. One of them:

ཤ་རཱི་རཾ་ཞེས་དཀར་ལ་ད��ས། །སྣུམ་ལ་འདྲིལ་ཏེ་ཁ་དོག་གསལ། །སྲན་མ་ཡི་ནི་རྡོག་འབྲུ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་རུས་པའི་དངས་མ་སྟེ། །སྨིན་པས་འདྲིལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །ཐབས་ལྡན་དེ་ཡི་མགོ་ལས་འབྱུང༌། །

"Shariram (Buddhist Relics) is pure white, shining, size of pea.  It is the essence, pure core of bones.  On maturing it becomes round and appear from skilful of yogi's head".

Same tantra points later:

རིང་བསྲེལ་ཉིད་ནི་ཕྲ་མོ་སྟེ། །ཏིལ་གྱི་འབྲུ་དང་རྡུལ་ཆ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་འབྱུང་བས་བཤིག་པར་ནུས། །འདི་ནི་སྤྲུལ་པའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུའོ། །

"Ringsel can be size of sesame seed or speck of dust.  It can be destroyed by elements. This is the sign the one has attained the pure land of Nirmanakaya".

So the Dung Relics are considered to be the most supreme sign as they mean the actual Buddhahood attainment with consequent liberation in Dharmata Bardo.  Ringsel specifies the vision stage attainment (tib. mthong lam མཐོང་ལམ། ), and the last rebirth in natural Nirmanakaya Pure Land.  In these lands the practitioner goes the path of stages and Bhumi (tib. sa lam ས་ལམ།) and attains the final Buddhahood.

Despite of long combustion of cremation pyre, the abode of wrathful deities mandala "Bone Palace" [1] (tib. dung khang གདུང་ཁང།) was not damaged by fire.  Exactly as said in extremely secret Dzogchen tantra cycle “Blazing relics”, many white sharirams were found there of Tathagata family (tib. སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས།), size of pea and bigger.   It specifies the attainment of perfect and manifest buddhahood (tib. mngon par rdzogs par sangs rgyas) in dharmata bardo. More than that, few dark blue bone structures (tib. sku rus) were found among relics, as the sign of Rinpoche’s main yidam realization (Vajrakila).

Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche's students had requested H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa to compose the "Swift Rebirth Prayer" (tib. myur byon gsol 'debs མྱུར་བྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས།) and the request was appreciated.  

The Prayer for Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche’s Swift Rebirth composed by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa is as follows:

"Holy Guru, exalted Orgyen Kalzang (the name given to Lama by His Holiness Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje)

Although your enlightened mind passed to non-abiding fundamental space of nirvana,

Please, come back as soon as possible, to protect the beings that are to be tamed and manifest the activity of full liberation in three lands".

During 49 days after Karma Phuntsog passed away, disciples and lamas in Karmarong and Russia performed ‘Three Roots’ practice and ganapuja daily. 

Information about relics and liberation signs found after the cremation ritual which was strictly sealed (tib. gsang rgya གསང་རྒྱ།) and not revealed until the completion of 49th day funeral rituals. 

The purpose of sealing information about the Rinpoche’s holy relics was to avoid any hindrances of Guru’s soonest rebirth in our world.

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Joint Mani Prayer to 100 Million Times, Mugu Nepal ( 9-18 March 2022)

Dear all,

We are delighted to invite you to this auspicious event that occurs during the Losar commencing on 9 March to 18 March for 10 days.

Join us and practice Mani together for the world peace and for the benefit of all sentient beings.

How to join :

Recite Mani Mantra ( Om Mani Padme Hum ) daily for 10 days and report final counts to organizer on 10th day

How to make offerings ( you can choose from the list below ) :

1. For the dedicated prayer and blessing for you, your family or deceased

2. Meals and Tea for Villagers and Monks for 10 days

3. Offerings for Prayer sessions ( Puja )

Torma / Flowers / Fruits / Butter Lamps

4. Tentage to provide covered space from sun and rain for 400 participants

5. Dharma Pills : for the community and for their well-being.

Please leave your comment below or notify us via messenger if you wish to make offerings for mani puja. Your count of mani prayer, let us know at the end of 10th day, 18 March 2022.

Thank you.

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Happy Chinese Year ! 

吉祥如意 ( Ji Xiang Ru Yi )

人和家順福星照 ( Ren He Jia Shun Fu Xing Zhao )

心想事成鸿運開 ( Xin Xiang Shi Cheng Hong Yun Kai

On behalf of all members of Thangdum Foundation, we wish you and your family for a peaceful and a full of harmony throughout the year.

May all your wishes come true and blessed with good luck.

We will look forward to meet you all for 2022 Mani Prayer Session during the Losar ( Tibetan New Year ) next month.  🙏

2022 Mani Prayer event will be held from 09 Mar to 18 Mar 2022.   In 2021, we prayed and accumulated 100 Million times together with the Rinpoches, Sangha from all over the world for 10 days.  

We wish to continue and accumulate more merits with you in coming month in March 2022.    Please join us.

For more details or any enquiries about the event, please feel free to contact us via messenger or email @ support@thangdumfoundation.com. 

Thank you.  🙏

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We are deeply sadden to share this news today.

There was a sudden outbreak of fire at Gamgadi, Mugu, Nepal last night, where many villagers lost their homes and settlements.

We sincerely pray for the villagers who are affected by devastating incidents and wish for their speedy recovery with support from the community.

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SIGNS OF REALIZATION AND BUDDHAHOOD ATTAINMENT (RELICS)

According Buddha Dharma in general and Great Perfection (tib. rdzogs chen l རྫོགས་ཆེན།) teaching in particular, after great practitioner is liberated and passes to nirvana, the holy relics are found in the cremation ashes. These are the proof of enlightenment attained in this very life or in the luminous bardo of dharmata (Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo).  These holy items are the material support of blessing.

According Great Perfection tantras, there are few types of such relics: (1) Bone ones with mantras or icons of peaceful and wrathful deities (tib. Zhi Khro ཞི་ཁྲོ), they mean the liberation in moment of death; (2) "Relics Dung" (tib. gdung གདུང།) mean the enlightenment and liberation in the luminous bardo of dharmata (tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo); (3) "Relics Ringsel" (ring bsrel ། རིང་བསྲེལ།)  mean the rebirth in the pure lands of natural Nirmanakaya.

From Dzogchen Tantra "Blazing Relics" (tib. sku gdung bar ba སྐུ་གདུང་འབར་བ):

གང་དག་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་ན། །དེ་ལ་སྐུ་དང་གདུང་དང་ནི། །དེ་བཞིན་འོད་དང་སྒྲ་ཉིད་དང༌། །ས་ནི་གཡོ་བར་འགྱུར་བའོ། །

   " Those who passed to nirvana would leave behind, in cremation ashes the icons of Bodies and Dung Relics (tib. gdung གདུང ), light and rainbows, earth would shake …"

Further, we read in the same tantra that Dung Relics can be of five colours, referring five buddha families. One of them:

ཤ་རཱི་རཾ་ཞེས་དཀར་ལ་དངས། །སྣུམ་ལ་འདྲིལ་ཏེ་ཁ་དོག་གསལ། །སྲན་མ་ཡི་ནི་རྡོག་འབྲུ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་རུས་པའི་དངས་མ་སྟེ། །སྨིན་པས་འདྲིལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །ཐབས་ལྡན་དེ་ཡི་མགོ་ལས་འབྱུང༌། །

"Shariram (Buddhist Relics) is pure white, shining, size of pea.  It is the essence, pure core of bones.  On maturing it becomes round and appear from skilful of yogi's head".

Same tantra points later:

རིང་བསྲེལ་ཉིད་ནི་ཕྲ་མོ་སྟེ། །ཏིལ་གྱི་འབྲུ་དང་རྡུལ་ཆ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་འབྱུང་བས་བཤིག་པར་ནུས། །འདི་ནི་སྤྲུལ་པའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུའོ། །

"Ringsel can be size of sesame seed or speck of dust.  It can be destroyed by elements. This is the sign the one has attained the pure land of Nirmanakaya".

So the Dung Relics are considered to be the most supreme sign as they mean the actual Buddhahood attainment with consequent liberation in Dharmata Bardo.  Ringsel specifies the vision stage attainment (tib. mthong lam མཐོང་ལམ། ), and the last rebirth in natural Nirmanakaya Pure Land.  In these lands the practitioner goes the path of stages and Bhumi (tib. sa lam ས་ལམ།) and attains the final Buddhahood.

Despite of long combustion of cremation pyre, the abode of wrathful deities mandala "Bone Palace" [1] (tib. dung khang གདུང་ཁང།) was not damaged by fire.  Exactly as said in extremely secret Dzogchen tantra cycle “Blazing relics”, many white sharirams were found there of Tathagata family (tib. སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས།), size of pea and bigger.   It specifies the attainment of perfect and manifest buddhahood (tib. mngon par rdzogs par sangs rgyas) in dharmata bardo. More than that, few dark blue bone structures (tib. sku rus) were found among relics, as the sign of Rinpoche’s main yidam realization (Vajrakila).

Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche's students had requested H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa to compose the "Swift Rebirth Prayer" (tib. myur byon gsol 'debs མྱུར་བྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས།) and the request was appreciated.  

The Prayer for Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche’s Swift Rebirth composed by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa is as follows:

"Holy Guru, exalted Orgyen Kalzang (the name given to Lama by His Holiness Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje)

Although your enlightened mind passed to non-abiding fundamental space of nirvana,

Please, come back as soon as possible, to protect the beings that are to be tamed and manifest the activity of full liberation in three lands".

During 49 days after Karma Phuntsog passed away, disciples and lamas in Karmarong and Russia performed ‘Three Roots’ practice and ganapuja daily. 

Information about relics and liberation signs found after the cremation ritual which was strictly sealed (tib. gsang rgya གསང་རྒྱ།) and not revealed until the completion of 49th day funeral rituals. 

The purpose of sealing information about the Rinpoche’s holy relics was to avoid any hindrances of Guru’s soonest rebirth in our world.

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SIGNS OF REALIZATION AND BUDDHAHOOD ATTAINMENT (RELICS)

According Buddha Dharma in general and Great Perfection (tib. rdzogs chen l རྫོགས་ཆེན།) teaching in particular, after great practitioner is liberated and passes to nirvana, the holy relics are found in the cremation ashes. These are the proof of enlightenment attained in this very life or in the luminous bardo of dharmata (Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo).  These holy items are the material support of blessing.

According Great Perfection tantras, there are few types of such relics: (1) Bone ones with mantras or icons of peaceful and wrathful deities (tib. Zhi Khro ཞི་ཁྲོ), they mean the liberation in moment of death; (2) "Relics Dung" (tib. gdung གདུང།) mean the enlightenment and liberation in the luminous bardo of dharmata (tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo); (3) "Relics Ringsel" (ring bsrel ། རིང་བསྲེལ།)  mean the rebirth in the pure lands of natural Nirmanakaya.

From Dzogchen Tantra "Blazing Relics" (tib. sku gdung bar ba སྐུ་གདུང་འབར་བ):

གང་དག་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་ན། །དེ་ལ་སྐུ་དང་གདུང་དང་ནི། །དེ་བཞིན་འོད་དང་སྒྲ་ཉིད་དང༌། །ས་ནི་གཡོ་བར་འགྱུར་བའོ། །

   " Those who passed to nirvana would leave behind, in cremation ashes the icons of Bodies and Dung Relics (tib. gdung གདུང ), light and rainbows, earth would shake …"

Further, we read in the same tantra that Dung Relics can be of five colours, referring five buddha families. One of them:

ཤ་རཱི་རཾ་ཞེས་དཀར་ལ་དངས། །སྣུམ་ལ་འདྲིལ་ཏེ་ཁ་དོག་གསལ། །སྲན་མ་ཡི་ནི་རྡོག་འབྲུ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་རུས་པའི་དངས་མ་སྟེ། །སྨིན་པས་འདྲིལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །ཐབས་ལྡན་དེ་ཡི་མགོ་ལས་འབྱུང༌། །

"Shariram (Buddhist Relics) is pure white, shining, size of pea.  It is the essence, pure core of bones.  On maturing it becomes round and appear from skilful of yogi's head".

Same tantra points later:

རིང་བསྲེལ་ཉིད་ནི་ཕྲ་མོ་སྟེ། །ཏིལ་གྱི་འབྲུ་དང་རྡུལ་ཆ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་འབྱུང་བས་བཤིག་པར་ནུས། །འདི་ནི་སྤྲུལ་པའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུའོ། །

"Ringsel can be size of sesame seed or speck of dust.  It can be destroyed by elements. This is the sign the one has attained the pure land of Nirmanakaya".

So the Dung Relics are considered to be the most supreme sign as they mean the actual Buddhahood attainment with consequent liberation in Dharmata Bardo.  Ringsel specifies the vision stage attainment (tib. mthong lam མཐོང་ལམ། ), and the last rebirth in natural Nirmanakaya Pure Land.  In these lands the practitioner goes the path of stages and Bhumi (tib. sa lam ས་ལམ།) and attains the final Buddhahood.

Despite of long combustion of cremation pyre, the abode of wrathful deities mandala "Bone Palace" [1] (tib. dung khang གདུང་ཁང།) was not damaged by fire.  Exactly as said in extremely secret Dzogchen tantra cycle “Blazing relics”, many white sharirams were found there of Tathagata family (tib. སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས།), size of pea and bigger.   It specifies the attainment of perfect and manifest buddhahood (tib. mngon par rdzogs par sangs rgyas) in dharmata bardo. More than that, few dark blue bone structures (tib. sku rus) were found among relics, as the sign of Rinpoche’s main yidam realization (Vajrakila).

Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche's students had requested H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa to compose the "Swift Rebirth Prayer" (tib. myur byon gsol 'debs མྱུར་བྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས།) and the request was appreciated.  

The Prayer for Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche’s Swift Rebirth composed by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa is as follows:

"Holy Guru, exalted Orgyen Kalzang (the name given to Lama by His Holiness Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje)

Although your enlightened mind passed to non-abiding fundamental space of nirvana,

Please, come back as soon as possible, to protect the beings that are to be tamed and manifest the activity of full liberation in three lands".

During 49 days after Karma Phuntsog passed away, disciples and lamas in Karmarong and Russia performed ‘Three Roots’ practice and ganapuja daily. 

Information about relics and liberation signs found after the cremation ritual which was strictly sealed (tib. gsang rgya གསང་རྒྱ།) and not revealed until the completion of 49th day funeral rituals. 

The purpose of sealing information about the Rinpoche’s holy relics was to avoid any hindrances of Guru’s soonest rebirth in our world.

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SIGNS OF REALIZATION AND BUDDHAHOOD ATTAINMENT (RELICS)

According Buddha Dharma in general and Great Perfection (tib. rdzogs chen l རྫོགས་ཆེན།) teaching in particular, after great practitioner is liberated and passes to nirvana, the holy relics are found in the cremation ashes. These are the proof of enlightenment attained in this very life or in the luminous bardo of dharmata (Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo).  These holy items are the material support of blessing.

According Great Perfection tantras, there are few types of such relics: (1) Bone ones with mantras or icons of peaceful and wrathful deities (tib. Zhi Khro ཞི་ཁྲོ), they mean the liberation in moment of death; (2) "Relics Dung" (tib. gdung གདུང།) mean the enlightenment and liberation in the luminous bardo of dharmata (tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ།, chö nyi ösal gyi bardo); (3) "Relics Ringsel" (ring bsrel ། རིང་བསྲེལ།)  mean the rebirth in the pure lands of natural Nirmanakaya.

From Dzogchen Tantra "Blazing Relics" (tib. sku gdung bar ba སྐུ་གདུང་འབར་བ):

གང་དག་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་ན། །དེ་ལ་སྐུ་དང་གདུང་དང་ནི། །དེ་བཞིན་འོད་དང་སྒྲ་ཉིད་དང༌། །ས་ནི་གཡོ་བར་འགྱུར་བའོ། །

   " Those who passed to nirvana would leave behind, in cremation ashes the icons of Bodies and Dung Relics (tib. gdung གདུང ), light and rainbows, earth would shake …"

Further, we read in the same tantra that Dung Relics can be of five colours, referring five buddha families. One of them:

ཤ་རཱི་རཾ་ཞེས་དཀར་ལ་དངས། །སྣུམ་ལ་འདྲིལ་ཏེ་ཁ་དོག་གསལ། །སྲན་མ་ཡི་ནི་རྡོག་འབྲུ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་རུས་པའི་དངས་མ་སྟེ། །སྨིན་པས་འདྲིལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །ཐབས་ལྡན་དེ་ཡི་མགོ་ལས་འབྱུང༌། །

"Shariram (Buddhist Relics) is pure white, shining, size of pea.  It is the essence, pure core of bones.  On maturing it becomes round and appear from skilful of yogi's head".

Same tantra points later:

རིང་བསྲེལ་ཉིད་ནི་ཕྲ་མོ་སྟེ། །ཏིལ་གྱི་འབྲུ་དང་རྡུལ་ཆ་ཙམ། །འདི་ནི་འབྱུང་བས་བཤིག་པར་ནུས། །འདི་ནི་སྤྲུལ་པའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུའོ། །

"Ringsel can be size of sesame seed or speck of dust.  It can be destroyed by elements. This is the sign the one has attained the pure land of Nirmanakaya".

So the Dung Relics are considered to be the most supreme sign as they mean the actual Buddhahood attainment with consequent liberation in Dharmata Bardo.  Ringsel specifies the vision stage attainment (tib. mthong lam མཐོང་ལམ། ), and the last rebirth in natural Nirmanakaya Pure Land.  In these lands the practitioner goes the path of stages and Bhumi (tib. sa lam ས་ལམ།) and attains the final Buddhahood.

Despite of long combustion of cremation pyre, the abode of wrathful deities mandala "Bone Palace" [1] (tib. dung khang གདུང་ཁང།) was not damaged by fire.  Exactly as said in extremely secret Dzogchen tantra cycle “Blazing relics”, many white sharirams were found there of Tathagata family (tib. སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས།), size of pea and bigger.   It specifies the attainment of perfect and manifest buddhahood (tib. mngon par rdzogs par sangs rgyas) in dharmata bardo. More than that, few dark blue bone structures (tib. sku rus) were found among relics, as the sign of Rinpoche’s main yidam realization (Vajrakila).

Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche's students had requested H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa to compose the "Swift Rebirth Prayer" (tib. myur byon gsol 'debs མྱུར་བྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས།) and the request was appreciated.  

The Prayer for Lama Karma Phunjok Rinpoche’s Swift Rebirth composed by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa is as follows:

"Holy Guru, exalted Orgyen Kalzang (the name given to Lama by His Holiness Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje)

Although your enlightened mind passed to non-abiding fundamental space of nirvana,

Please, come back as soon as possible, to protect the beings that are to be tamed and manifest the activity of full liberation in three lands".

During 49 days after Karma Phuntsog passed away, disciples and lamas in Karmarong and Russia performed ‘Three Roots’ practice and ganapuja daily. 

Information about relics and liberation signs found after the cremation ritual which was strictly sealed (tib. gsang rgya གསང་རྒྱ།) and not revealed until the completion of 49th day funeral rituals. 

The purpose of sealing information about the Rinpoche’s holy relics was to avoid any hindrances of Guru’s soonest rebirth in our world.