ADVICE TO DHARMA STUDENTS

A Teaching by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin (Interview) on ADVICE TO DHARMA STUDENTS source: Palden Sakya News Magazine, 2007 Your Holiness, why should we practice Buddhist teachings? Generally speaking, from the smallest insect on up to the most intelligent human being, there is agreement that all sentient beings want happiness and all of them also wish […]

THE LAM DRE TEACHINGS: A Brief History

Source:  This lam dre teaching was written by the Venerable Lama Pema Wangdak, published online in The Snow Lion Newsletter on the occasion of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin’s visit to the US ( for the first time in a decade) in 2000. The Sakya order is the second oldest of the four principal traditions […]

Teaching on the Vajrakilaya Puja

Based on an Interview with His Holiness the Sakya Trizin Written by Kunga Sonam Dronma with assistance from Ngawang Khyentse and Ngawang Kunzang. Source: Cho Trin, Volume 2, Number 1 The Sakya Order has innumerable exoteric and esoteric teachings, and among them the Vajrakilaya teaching cycle is the teaching with the longest history. It has […]

Great Sakya Women As Told by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin

There have been very great female Sakya practitioners ever since the very early days of the lineage. Jetsun Kunga Tenpey Nyingma, for example. She lived some 300 years ago. She’s actually one of the Vajrayogini lineage gurus. She was an outstanding master, and was the guru of many masters – mostly Sakya, but from other […]

A Teaching on Tara

Q:  Your Holiness, what does lineage mean? Lineage means the teaching that has been brought down from Buddha to his disciples, then to the translators and then from one Guru to the next – the unbroken line of transmission that has been passed from Buddha himself, up to the present Guru.Q:  Who is Tara ? […]

Advice to Dharma Students

ADVICE TO DHARMA STUDENTS A Teaching by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin (Interview) Your Holiness, why should we practice Buddhist teachings? Generally speaking, from the smallest insect on up to the most intelligent human being, there is agreement that all sentient beings want happiness and all of them also wish to avoid suffering. The majority […]