Counselor and student of Dr Nida Chenagtsang Julian Royce has just uploaded an interview with Dr Ben Joffe, Sky Press’ chief editor and translator, in which Ben discusses Dr Nida’s 2018 book ‘Karmamudra: The Yoga of Bliss’ (Sexuality in Tibetan…
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Category: Interviews, Meditation, Ngakpa/ma, Reviews, Yuthok Nyingthig
Tags: anthropology, Dr Ben Joffe, Dr Nida, Karmamudra, ngakpa, sexual yoga, Tantric Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrayana
The following is a translation of a prayer to the great, twelfth century ngakpa or tantric yogi householder and physician Yuthok Yonten Gonpo, who is revered as the chief systematizer of Tibetan traditional medicine, written by Dr Nida Chenagtsang. Translation…
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Category: Meditation, Prayers to Yuthok, Yuthok Nyingthig
Tags: Dr Nida, ngakpa, prayers, Sowa Rigpa, Tantric Yoga, Tibetan, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan history, Tibetan medicine, Vajrayana, Yuthok, 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