I mat Tibetan some friends last week

Last week we had a chance to see our Tibetan friends who are studying at the AIT of Thailand.
They are Ujab, Rigyal (Simon) and Rigthob. They are from Amdo. We talked about my prostrations, Tibetan culture, our Stupa project and Khadiravana. They are the first people who helped us build the first mantra stupa.


May good friend Terang Pelo, Zhabum and Bandan and I in Chendu last week.

The 1000 Stars Foundation House in Thailand

In Dogden monastery

My good friend Namdrol, Krisadawan and I

Dogdan monastery

Dzogchen Masters in Zhang Zhung Dzogchen Coilges of Dogden monastery, Amdo Tibet.
we viti there at 2007

Tonpa Shenrab, the Completely Enlightened One

Tonpa Shenrab, the Completely Enlightened One
Tonpa Shenrab, the founder of the Yung Drung Bön religion, was born in 16,017 BC, in the land of Omolungring. Tonpa Shenrab appeared initially as an ordinary man. Before he attained enlightenment (Buddhahood), he went through the six realms of cyclic existence in countless births. He entered the door of enlightenment through the practices of accumulating merit and purifying himself, resulting in the attainment of the transcendental qualities of loving kindness and compassion. He is superior among all the exalted enlightened beings and is dedicated to the liberation of all sentient beings. In order to rescue them, he turned the Dharma Wheel of Bön three times as an antidote to all suffering.


Tonpa Shenrab is holding a Yung Drung Chakshing in his right hand and his left hand is in the meditation mudra. The chakshing is the primary symbol of Bön and represents the turning of the wheel of Bön (a combination of Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen) teachings. The meditation mudra symbolizes the natural condition of phenomena (Bön nyid) realized through the practice of the eternal Bön teachings. He sits on a jewel wheel throne symbolizing the mastery of Bön over the three poisons, (ignorance, anger, greed).

Prayer
"May the teacher come to our world!
May the teaching be bright as the sun rays!
May teachers and students increasingly learn and accomplish!
May there thus be good fortune that the teachings long remain!"

Drenpa Namkha

Drenpa Namkha was born in the eighth century in a village called Chunlung Ngul Kha in southwestern Tibet, near the sacred Mt. Kailash. As a young man, he was a gifted student of eight famous Bön teachers. He became a self-realized supreme master of the three Bön practices, known as Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen. At that time there was great persecution of Bön by the King of Tibet. Drenpa Namka was revered for his dedication to the protection and preservation of the Bön teachings during those difficult times.


He is holding a Yung Drung Chakshing in his right hand to indicate the permanence of the Bön teachings. The eye on the sole of his foot symbolizes his victory over all heretics.


Drenpa Namka is very helpful in overcoming all obstacles, both personal and communal. He is the primary long-life deity.

International Conference on ''Boday and Mind: Science on Spiritulity perspectives"
Decenber 6-B,2006

Niymadrgpa Rinpoche and Krisa

Krisadawan's Retreat Cabin, Tara Land

Krisadawan's Interview in a Thai Magazine "Praew"

When I was in Cambodia

I went to a monastery in Combodia last week.

Newsletters of the Thousand Stars Foundation

Dr.Krisadawan, Myself and Students at Chulalongkron University

Last Day of Class with a gift from the students

Tokden Monastery, One of Tibet's Greatest Bon Monasteries

Zhang Zhung Dzogchen College, a three year retreat center at Tokden

Tokden's lineage is that of the Oral Tradition of Zhang Zhung held by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche, who achieved rainbow body in the 1930s. The college was established in 1924. More than two hundred yogis from every part of Tibet have been trained here. Before the college was established, the traditional three year retreat was undertaken by five students at a time. During the Liberation in 1956 and the Culture Revolution the monastery was destroyed and college activities were stopped for twenty seven years.

Tokden Monastery is a center of both the new and old traditions of Yungdrung Bon Buddhism. Here the Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen teachings have been transmitted without any interruption. It has been blessed by Shadza Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche, who established the Zhang-zhung Dzogchen College.The Monastery is currently run by Driwa Rinpoche and Tshulchen Rinpoche.

History of Tokden Monastery

Tokden Monastery is a center of both the new and old traditions of Yundrung Bon Buddhism. In 1385 Rigdzin Shachen Nyimadzin first built a small practice community (Tibetan: gar). A few ngakpas (tantric practitioners) practiced the teachings of the Secret Mantra there. After that Tokden Yungdrung Tsultrim meditated in a retreat cabin for many years before he built a monastery near the gar. This enabled ordained monks to practice there. His practice came from the Shen Tshang lineage. And since that time the former community of the ngakpas and the new community of the monks practiced together the three vehicles of Buddha's teaching, namely the Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen. The hermitage and the monastery constitute a great monastery "Tokden Gon Palshenten Mindrol Tashi Chil Ling".

Presently the monastery has been known as "Ngawa Tokden Gonpa" or "Tokden Monastery of Ngawa". It is located on a mountain five kilometers north-east of Aba County, Qiang and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. There are 318 monks studying Tibetan traditional culture and practicing Bon Buddhism.

Lama Rinpoche

His Eminence Kundrol Drakpa Mongyal Lhasray Rinpoche Rinpoche is an internationally recognized Dzogchen master from Bon and Nyingma traditions. He is the son of His Eminence Kundrol Drakpa Hungchen Drodu Lingpa Rinpoche, a terton (one who discovers hidden treasures) who represents the unbroken lineage of teaching from the First Kundrol Drakpa Rinpoche (who himself was descended from the Buddha Tempa Sherab Miwoche).


Dr.Krisadawan Hongladarom.

She practiced Dzogchen Ngondro
(preliminary practice for Dzongchen)
at Tara Khadiravana retreat center last week.

Pilgrimages to Sacred Mountains, Kham, Eastern Tibet

Khadiravani Tara

This Tara image is a gift to Krisadawan by His Eminence Kundrol Drakpa Mongyal Lhasray Rinpoche when he first came to Thailand in December 2005. It is kept at the Kesang Tara Temple, Krisadawan's home in Nonthaburi, Thailand.

Pray to Tara for blessing against fear and suffering.

Ngondro

If you want to practices to Dzogchen, in the beginning,
all practitioners receive teachings on the preliminary practices (Ngondro). Then meditation practices are added that focus on the true nature of mind. It is necessary to have a qualified teacher when beginning these practices, in order to receive an introduction to the nature of mind.

Amitayus Buddha

I prostrate to Amitayus Buddha. May sentient beings have long life and attain enlightenment as quickly as possible!

This is the picture we received from Lhasray Rinpoche when he performed the Amitayus or long life empowerment in Hua-Hin last December.At that time, I stayed in Thailand and had great opportunity to serve him as well as to work for the Thosuand Stars Foundation.