Steve James of the Guru Viking podcast has just released a wonderful new interview with Sky Press author, Tibetan yogi and physician Dr Nida Chenagtsang on his life story. In this inspiring interview Dr Nida discusses his early upbringing in…
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Category: Audio-visual Resources, Interviews, Mantra Healing, Medicine, Meditation, Ngakpa/ma, Sowa Rigpa, Yuthok Nyingthig
Tags: Amdo, Ani Ngawang Gyaltsen, Ati Yoga, Dr Nida, Dudjom Tersar, geomancy, Guru Yoga, healing, health, Karmamudra, Khenpo Troru Tsenam, Longchen Nyingthig, Mantra Healing, ngakpa, Rebgong, retreat, ritual healing, Sache, sexual yoga, Sowa Rigpa, Sowa Rigpa education, Sowa Rigpa philosophy, Sowa Rigpa training, Tantric Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan nomads, tulkus, yogis, Yuthok Nyingthig
*What follows is a reshare of a post from Ben Joffe of Sky Press’s personal blog A Perfumed Skull. A small portion of this essay was also translated and included as an appendix in The Tibetan Book of Health published…
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Category: Mantra Healing, Medicine, Meditation, Sowa Rigpa, Uncategorized
Tags: Dr Nida, external therapies, Mantra Healing, mantras, ritual healing, Sowa Rigpa, stick therapy, subtle body, Tantric Yoga, Tibetan, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan medicine, translation, treatment, Vajrayana, yogis, yookcho
The goddess Parnashavari (Sanskrit) or Logyönma (lo gyon ma) in Tibetan, the so-called ‘leaf-clad Goddess’ of the aboriginal, tribal forests is renowned in Tibetan Buddhism as a resolver of epidemic diseases and fevers. She is regularly invoked to remove spiritual obstacles and promote health and longevity, and special medicinal pills which bear her name are manufactured for use against epidemic diseases, feverish conditions, and various other maladies. These pills or rilbu (ril bu) are typically consecrated by ritual specialists who recite Parnashavari’s praises and mantras and visualize her form to incite her potentizing blessings…here is one example of a prayer to Logyönma, along with mantra recitation, as sung by Tsering Donla. The Tibetan prayer of praise and mantra is included below, along with an English transliteration and translation by Ben Joffe of Sky Press. May health, healing, and happiness abound!
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Category: Mantra Healing, Meditation
Tags: Buddhist deities, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, Logyönma, Mantra Healing, mantras, Parnashavari, practices, prayers, rilbu, Tibetan, translation, Tsering Donla