THE MIRROR The International Newspaper of the Dzog-chen Community Issue 16

International Tibetan Language Seminar TN THIS ISSUE

The Real Meaning of Integration page 2 From August 30 to September 4, ethnic majority and marry scholars from all over the those of the minorities. world will meet in Siena and Everything, from Editorial Arcidosso, Italy to speak about the school teaching to page 3 Tibetan language. This is the second bureaucratic language, international seminar dedicated to is conditioned by the this subject, only apparently dominant language and The Lost Mystery specialised. In fact the topic of this involves the risk of film exhibition language will enable the participants progressive homo­ to deepen one of the most delicate logation of the terms page 3 and undervalued aspects of the and corresponding present historical and cultural cultural habits of the International moment, i.e. the safeguarding of weaker ethnic groups. ancient languages and, as a Within a few years, the Community News consequence, of the most ancient Tibetan people, who Retreats, reports, teaching forms of expression, that have have been living until venues already been condemned, or that are now in a medieval seriously threatened, by linguistic context, have been pages 4, 6,7 nd cultural homologation. catapulted into the 20th he seminar has been organised by century, without The Dalai in e Shang-Shung International instruments to stitute of Tibetan Studies in safeguard and defend Latin America Jlaboration with the University of their identity. This is not at all an exaggeration. homologation in the world, with its page Siena, and with the official To get into the era of planetary With respect to this, not everybody dominant cultural tendencies, before recognition of UNESCO, UNICEF, communication Tibetans must, in knows that the whole body of the of the Spanish, then of the English the European Parliament, the fact, adjust their archaic language, Buddhist doctrines, now known all language, imposed through the XVn Ministry of Foreign Affairs, borrowing neologisms from the over the world, is fully preserved mass-media. Is.ME.O. (Istituto per il Medio ed modern languages. only inTibetan. In fact many original It is obvious that a language brings Reincarnation Found Estremo Oriente), Regione Tosca­ But to communicate with the rest of texts in have been lost and about many other things, such as a page 5 na, Comunità Montana del Monte the world it is easier to use the the whole texts of the Buddhist new organization of thought, a new Amiata, Provincia di Grosseto, dominant language, so that Tibetan Canon, the , and of its moral and so on. Within an Provincia di Siena and Comune di may become one of the many dead commentary, the , can only ecological perspective, the pro­ St. Petersburg Arcidosso. For the first time Tibetan languages of this planet, a language be found in Tibetan. gressive disappearance of the scholars from all over the world will only for learned specialists, the only How is it possible, then, to adjust a languages that used to make this Temple work together to attempt to solve ones who, in the future, will be able language to the modem age without world various and interesting, cannot The history the problems. to read the ancient scriptures. It is a losing a memory that, by now, be undervalued. This is similar to page 10 Specialists in the field know well little as if only the scholars who belongs to the whole of humanity? what happened about the alimentary how difficult the confrontation is study the Cabbala were able to read This is true not only for the Tibetan homologation, if we consider that between the culture of the leading the original version of the Bible. language, if we think of the linguistic until 2000-3000years ago, man used Shamanism in more than 1800 vegetable varieties, Buryatia whereas now only about 60 varieties are commonly used. page 11 From the Baltic to Buryatia The last consideration about the se­ minar is about the importance of Patrul Rinpoche's A glimpse at the recent teaching sound and speech in all cultures, tour made by Namkhai Norbu above all in the oriental and in the Advice Rinpoche in the countries of the so-called "primitive" ones that still page 12 ex-Soviet Union, from Riga, Latvia prefer oral communication. In on the Battio through central Rus­ general sound is considered to be sia to Lake Baikal near Ulan Ude in the origin of all the universe. From Buryatia. At each retreat, a man­ Traditional Bon dala for the Dance of theVajra was this comes the importance of created, in gymnasiums, outside language as the main sign of the Medicine on dance floors, paving stones and ethnic and cultural identity of by Doctor Pasang Yontin canvas, wherever the space was peoples in danger of extinction page 13 available. New Dzog-chen During the seminar, some very rare Communities were formed in each films shot in Tibet between the 30s of the places where Rinpoche and 40s (during German, English, Letters taught and many people were American and Italian expeditions, finally able to have real contact page 14 the latter led by Giuseppe Tucci, the with the Master whose teachings they had only been able to read or famous oriental scholar who died a listen to on tape until the trip. few years ago) will be shown for the Practice Calendar Teachings in the forest of Buryatia close to lake Baikal pages 8 & 9 first time in Italy. page 16

ISSUE 16 2 The Real Meaning of Integration

Weusethe term 'integration'widely In the Dzog-clien teaching, if you are in any kind of But if you integrate with a sound, physical body and also the in the Dzog-chen Teaching, but its whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, limitations of our energy and mind. real meaning is that first of all a place and at that moment, you are in a state of , it doesn't matter, it means that you In order to maintain our physical Dzog-chen practitioner should be in then that is your place, your sacred or holy place. In are in that clarity, in the real nature body, we need material elements: the stateof Dzog-chen whichmeans general people want to go to a holy place such as a of sound. The sound is not something when we are hungry we need food his real condition. To be in tlie real outside you that gives you a terrible and when we are thirsty we need to condition you must discover it, and temple to do practice. But when you are in instant feeling and you are not somewhere drink. All these things are very con­ then you have knowledge of it If presence, then wherever you are becomes a holy else receiving a bad sound. But if crete for the karm ic v ision of a human you have experience or knowledge you are the sound, if you are present being. But if you have knowledge of of the state which, in the Dzog-chen place, your temple. in the sound, there is no question of integration, then there is a way to teaching, we call the state of rigpa thinking or feeling that it is good or relax without developing tensions or the state of contemplation, then bad. In the nature of sound there is and through this there is a possibility you have a possibility to integrate no good or bad aspect. Sound is only to integrate everything in the your contemplation into the sound. So when you are in the state practice, in that knowledge. circumstances of your normal of contemplation and at the same If you remain too much in your condition or your normal condition time you are a sound and you are in consideration of subject and object, integrates in the state of integration, you cannot have any good and bad, developing your contemplation. kind of tension. You automatically concept that there is something to Of course, when we reason with our liberate that problem. That is the accept or reject, then, of course, intellect, integrating all our principle of self-liberation. You are tensions will develop day after day circumstances or normal life in a not transforming a sound into and there will be no possibility to be state of contemplation or integral ing something else. For example, you in the state of integration. If you our capacity of contemplation in the are not transforming bad sound into have knowledge of integration, then relative condition, these seem to be good and then enjoying iL But you there is something to learn, to two different aspects. But when you are that sound and that is very develop that capacity. So one of the are in your real nature or condition different. So that is the principle of most important principles of the there is no d if ference between them. integration. teaching is our real knowledge. It is not a principle which relates to arted Dualism something external.

How can you learn to integrate that We have five senses and, if we in­ Attachment knowledge? In the Dzog-chen clude our mind, they are six. In the Teaching there is a very famous same way we have six sense organs When the great master gave practice called namkha arted and the objects of the senses. When advice to his disciple, the (nam-mkha ar-gted). Namkha in eans we have sense contact with objects, , he said to him, space. Arted means you are gazing we do not remain in the dualistic "The problem is not impure visions into space and at the same time you condition but in instant presence but our attachment (to them)". This are that empty space. In your withoutconsiderationofsubjectand is an example. condition you have emptiness or object, in the real condition. This is If you have attachment, then you inner space. At the same time you the real meaning ofintegratioa You have consideration of subject and have outer space outside yourself. have no more to discover. In the object, good and bad, pure and im­ So when you gaze into empty space Dzog-chen teaching we say that pure and you remain in this concept in the sky that means that you are "when you discover one, then you and you apply it rejecting or gazing into outer space. Your discover all". It means that when accepting. If you know that the presence is in empty space, that you discover this instant presence problem is within yourself, in your means that you are also in your inner or the state of rigpa or attachment, then that means that the space. There is no difference contemplation, you discover the problem is not external and if you between inner and outer space if whole universe, all your know that the problem is your you are in the state of rigpa and you Norbu Rinpoche teaching at the retreat at Lake Baikal, Buryatia consideration of subject and object attachment then you remember that can have that experience when you in integration. If you have that attacliment is the consequence of do the practice of namkha arted. experience, that princ iple, then there because you are ignoring the real do not have the concept of accepting our judgemenL Judgement arises are many possibilities. nature of clarity withyour distraction or rej ecting then you do not have the through our sense contact with We are human beings living in the Clarity and your concepts, because at that possibility to produce negative objects. moment you are judging whether karma. So that is the real meaning of relative condition. This means that all human beings have human Take for example our mind. The something is good or bad. If you integration. It is the same principle when you object of our m ind is all , all have the idea that something is good karmic vision which is produced by are in a state of contemplation. For phenomena. So we think, we judge, then you also have the idea of collective karma. example, you open your eyes and Self-liberation we consider something is good or accepting it. you can see objects. They could We have this collective karma bad. If we consider something to be You can only discover what have a pleasant or unpleasant colour If you have the idea that something because we have the same emotions good we immediately consider why integration really means when you or form. It doesn't matter. In any is bad then you have the concept of and through these emotions we it is good and we try to make a are in the state of contemplation or case you can see objects clearly and rejection. In Tibetan they are called produce the same kann a. Tlirough justification. you notice their colour or shape. chag (chags) and dang (sdang). rigpa. For example, if you hear a that kind of karma we liave the When we arrive at our justification Before you start to enter into Chag means attachment and dang sound, it may be pleasant or horrible. consequences of the same karmic then we consider that to be logical, judgement, whatever you see is part means anger. When you are distracted by the vision which is the human condition, something real, In this way we are of your clarity. But even when you sound, then if it is pleasant you hi our human vision and human hi all our sense contacts with obj ects distracted and we create attachment receive that information tlirough develop an attachment to it whereas dimension we consider tilings to be we have that kind of instant clarity or anger and we are continually y our m ind if y ou are aware that you if it is horrible then you reject iL In very real and concrete and important. and if we have, at that moment, our walking with attachment and anger are in a state of instant presence, y ou this way you produce karma and We feel this way because we are instant presence and the continuation as if they were two legs. In this way are not distracted by iL At that enter into action. If you feel that a humans, and this is a condition of of it, all sense contacts'become part we go ahead in infinite samsara. If moment some thoughts may arise. sound is horrible and that you don't human beings and there of our clarity. we discover that this principle is There can be a continuation of like it, you have that concept then circumstances - everything is real But in general, we are distracted by 1 inked w ith our distraction, if we are thoughts but you are not distracted you also have its tensions which you and concrete. So that means that we them and there is no more function not distracted and remain present in by them .You are aware. Also ui tins accumulate day after day. For are living in dualistic vision with of clarity. So when we say that we our real knowledge, our real case, what you see continues to be example, if you hear a horrible sound subject and object. are intlie state of integration it means condition, then we are in a state of part of your clarity. today, you will feel it is much more that we are continually in instant integration and there is nothing horrible tomorrow because you get presence. If we are in instant Relative condition wrong. In the Dzog-chen Teaching, cliarged up and develop your tension. presence then there is no more that is called the principle of Distraction Tensions arecontinually developing, consideration or concept of subject Of course it not so easy for a Samantabadra, Kuntuza'ngpo hi the end, if you cannot eliminate Of course if you are distracted by and object and there is no ordinary practitioner to be directly and (Kun-tu bzang-po). Kuntu meansall, tliat sound then you will start to thoughts aixl there is no continuation attachment and anger. That means continually in a state of forever, zangpo means fine. struggle with it. In this way tension of your instant presence, then you as a consquence that there is i lothing contemplation from the beginning. becomes even greater. cannot say that it is your clarity, to accept or reject. Of course if you In the relative condition we have a continued on page 15

ISSUE 16 An Open Letter fron! the Administrator Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche Teaching Schedule 1992-'93 a librarian In this way our collection by Marit Cr armer foundations, institutes, government 19 October Departure for Vancouver, Canada The activities of the Dzog-chen grants etc., in order to realize some of books and texts can be available 23-26 October Teaching Community can be divided into of our aims. to other scholars for research and Peter Oimitrov, 3Q5-11806 88th Avenue, Detta, B.C. V4C 3C5. those mainly linked to the Dzog-chen In Italy, the Dzog-chen Community the possible exchange of books with Tel 64 5976090 teachings and those of a cultural is a legal non-profit cultural other libraries. 27 October Departure for Santa Fe, N. Mexjoo nature. association which now has formal Shang-Shung Editions publishing 30 October • 1 November Teaching Regarding the latter there are many members in many countries. With house has many plans for future Cynthia Jure, Route 9, Box 65XX, Santa Fe. NM 87605. concrete activities taking place at the recent creation of the European publications and wish to extend their Tei. 5059823846,413 3694713 Merigar at the moment: activities by publishing in 3 November Departure for San Francisco, CA other languages. maintenance of buildings, 5- 9 November Teaching repairing roads and The Non-Governmental Carol Fields, 70 Flora Court, Pleasant H8I, CA 94523. Tel. 510 5599763 preparing garden areas, Organization A.S.I.A. is 12 November Departure for Hawaii establishing and cataloguing presently proceeding 14 • 19 November Teaching a specialized Oriental towards the building of Susan indlch, 129 Kaetepulu Drive, KaBua, Hawaii 96734. hospitals and schools in library, making an archive Tel. 080 2613469 of the many oral teachings Tibet 23 November Departure for Tokyo, Japan of different masters, etc. Connected to the Dzog-chen 27 r 29 November Teaching The activities of the moment Community there are many Nagasawa Tetsu, 7-17-14 Higashi Oizumi, Nerimako Tokio. also include the organisation talented people and many Tel. 033 924 8965 of the Second International possible and interesting I December Departure for Singapore Tibetan Language projects to be realized. 4-6 December Teaching Conference by the We believe we have a good Ian Gan, Apt. 15-04 Blanco Court, 585 North Bridge Road, Singapore Shang-Shung Insititute. possibility to make requests 0718. Tel. home 0065 298 2711, office 298 3123. Fax 293 4472 With an eye to the future, from many different evolving plans include the sources, but we need to find 7 December Departure for Sydney, Australia II - 20 December Teaching CO ABIT cooperative's plan out to whom and where we Hamish Gregor, 6 Grant Street, Woodford, NSW 2778. Tel. 047 586257 to build a biological can apply. The possibilities multi-purpose house at for requesting funding are 23 December Dep. for Buenos Aires, Argentina Merigar (see page 7), and Community, this opens up many quite vast and can fall under the 25 December Departure for Cordoba, Tashigar Shang-Shung Institute's intention to different possibilities for help in following categories: culture-arts, 27 Dec.'92-5 Jan.'93 Teaching organize more seminars on different realizing these projects. agriculture, architecture, Ricky Sued, Araujo 1271, Urea, Cordoba. Tel. 005451816222 aspects of Tibetan culture besides At Merigar we hope to find means environment, medicine, academic Alejandro Chaoul, Paseo Colon, 1131 2*11, Bs As 1083. ¿ establishing a Tibet museum. Tel. 0064 1 361 2746 that will enable us to work with the subjects such as history, translation, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche has many environment in agricultural and research, archeology, language, 25 January Departure for Lima, Peru ideas for future projects such as architectural projects. An example philosophy and religion. 29 -31 January Teaching research expeditions to Tibet, of this is an offer that the local I have talked several times about Juan Bustamente, Calle E. Palacios 1125-C, Miradores, Lima 18. building a largestupa, printingmore administration of Arcidosso has these ideas with Namkhai Norbu Tel. 14 791274, 14 455003 rare Tibetan texts, making an old made to the Community of a building Rinpoche and he approves very 3 February Departure for Caracas, Venezuela people's home, and so on. which is badly in need of repair. much and says we have to be 6- 13 February Teaching All these activities lie within the Then there is the whole cultural courageous and just go ahead. Dr. Pablo Lau Rivera, PB. A. Res. Pedernales, Ave. Paez, Monialban If, realm of possibility and there is a realm within the Community with I would very much appreciate your 1021 Caracas: Tel. 0058 210584 serious intention to do them but they help on this. If something is unclear many talented artists all over the 16 February Departure for Menda require concrete economic planning world who generously offer their or you need more information on '19 - 23 February Teaching and a financial situation which time and skills. This can mean many particulars please contact me Elias Capríle9, Apartado Postal 483, Menda 5101 makes them possible. directly. possible ways to create interesting 6 March Departure for Caracas We are looking for people who can things both within the context of the I am perfectly aware that this work do some research or who have Community and externally. may take some time but I also firmly 7 March Return to Rome, Italy information about where to apply In the academic field there is an believe that without starting for financial support for the It is obvious this ¡s a very strenuous itinerary so nothing should be urgent need of a new computer for somewhere it is difficult to achieve Dzog-chen Community from programmed for Rinpoche on the days when he is not teaching, because the library and the means to employ good results. he will need to rest on those days. Tibet - The Lost Mystery An exposition of unedited films taken in Tibet from 1926 - 1946

From September 1stto 3rd, in conjunction with The Lost Mystery Spedizione in Tibet There will be three projections of the Italian the Second International Seminar on Tibetan version at 5 pm in the afternoon for the general A compilation of films by the Shang-Shung by Giuseppe Tucci, 1933. Language, theShang-Shung Institutewillshow public. Institute, 1904 - 46 Black and white, in Italian. a series of rare films taken in Tibet at the Black and white, silent. The legendary expedition to Tfoetbythe Italian Teatro del Unanimi in Arcidosso. The majority A 37 minute compilation of films beginning Tibetotogist Giuseppe Tucci. Sacred dances of them are silent films and are in black and by Liliana Cavani, 1971. In colour. with the British diplomatic missions to at the monastery of Kaze. Nomad camps in the white. The biography of the Tibetan yogi Milarepa. the coronation of the XIV up to the desert. Cemeteries and funeral rites. The ruins Chinese and German missions of 1943 and of antique Lu, Nuk and Tsaparang. The Shang-Shung Institute has over 400 films 1946 to Tibet. Orizzonte Perduto (Lost Horizon) on Tibet in their archive which are available for Thursday, September 3rd, 9 pm. by Frank Capra, 1937, black and white. exchange with other institutes and Durch den Himalaja nach Tibet A Hollywood version of a fantastic Tibet. organizations which have film archives. Different Scenes from and by Ernst Schäfer, 1938 - 39 Arura - Viaggio nella Medicina Black and white, silent. Central Tibet Tuesday, September 1st, 9 pm. Tibetana A film on the extraordinary voyage through the by David Williamson, 1936. by Mario Maglietti and Elio Rumma. 1978, high passes of the Himalayas to the Tibetan Black and white, silent. Feste und Gebete in einem colour. plateau. Life of the nomads, scenes of Popular dances of Sikkim, deserts, A film on different aspects of Tbetan medicine Tibetischen Lama-Kloster dignitaries and rituals at the monasteries. monasteries, Tibetan handicrafts and life in filmed in north India and Nepal with the by Wilhelm Filchner, 1926-27 Lhasa. Black and white, silent. Wednesday, Sept. 2nd, 9 pm. consultation of Prof. Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. The OSS Mission to Tibet Tscham-Tanze in einem Untitled Documentary of a German 1943, black and white, English version. Music to accompany the silent films by Matteo Tibetischen Lama-Kloster Expedition to Tibet A documentary film on the expedition of Colonel Silva and Marc Eagleton. by Wilhelm Filchner, 1926 - 27 Tolstoy and Captain Brooke Dolan sent by 1939, Black and white, silent. The exposition has been organized by: Black and white, silent. President Roosevelt to the Dalai Lama asking The life of the Tibetan nomads of the plateau. Paolo Brunatto with the collaboration of Do­ Two short documentaries on life, rituals and for authorization for military supplies to pass Ceremonies in Lhasa for the Tibetan New natella Rossi, Fulvio Rossi and Karin tantric dances at the Dschamba Ling through Tibetan territory during the Second Year. Koppensteiner. monastery. World War.

ISSUE 16 4 Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche July Retreat in Paris

Teaching Venues by Eric Voisin different aspects of the path, he Rinpoche gave transmissions and Paris is usually nice and peaceful in taked about the way of Dzog-chen explanations of many basic practices July but an even greater feeling of using the examples of the mirror to give us the possibility to progress peace and joy manifested with the and the crystal to explain the by ourselves on the path of liberation. Santa Fe, U.S.A. arrival of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche relationship between mind and the The retreat ended with advice on for a five day retreat at the of nature of mind. Then he gave a how to integrate practice in everyday Weekend retreat with Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche Vincennes. The pagoda is situated direct introduction to the state of life which seems to be a very October 30 - November 1 in peaceful surroundings in a park rigpa (Rigpay tsalwang) which was, essential point. During these days, on the edge of a lake and is used by I believe, a great opportunity for the French Dzog-chen Community at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary all schools of in . everyone present to have an also had a chance to meet again Santa Fe, New Mexico As time was short, Rinpoche went experience of the state of after a long time besides having straight to the essence of the contemplation. contact with Vajra brothers and Registration fee is $125 including a light lunch served Saturday and Sunday. Teachings. After clarifying the In the following days, Norbu sisters from abroad. To reserve a space please send this amount to Lightworks, Route 9, Box 65XX, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, USA.

For additional information call Donna5059861494 or Cynthia 505 982 3846. Santi Maha Retreat at Tsegyalgar There are a limited number of rooms available at the retreat site. Other accomodations in Santa Fe may be booked through Santa Fe Central by Des Barry and Tsegyalgar. The details of explanation of Rinpoche's system Reservations 505 983 8200. Preparations began for this membership dues, and articles of for ensuring the survivial of the summers's retreat many months membership needed to be worked teachings in the future by making ago. There had been some out according to the circumstances knowledge of every level of the suggestions to have the retreat at a of each country. teachings, , and Honolulu, Hawaii place other than on our land at He added that the system was a Dzog-chen, something concrete for Tsegyalgar. This was because of means for people who wished to be practitioners who wish to participate The island of Oahu, Honolulu in Hawaii will be host to the retreat of November the situation arising from the need "in the same boat" with him, to take in its course of study, and realise its 12-19 given by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche during his world tour. for legal clarification of the status of responsibility for the continuation of practices. The retreat site is located in the mountains at 2,000 ft. A former ranch, it offers the road that runs by our property, the practice together, and for the Rinpoche paused frequently to a pool, hiking on its 10 acres of land and a comfortable lodge for the which is disputed by some teachings, both in the present and explain points of practice and the Teachings. neighbors. However, the prevailing for the future. of the various yanas and their Accommodation will be in bunk houses ortents for those who pref erto camp. feeling within the Community was He explained how anyone who context in the Santi Maha Sangha Retreat organizers suggest bringing warm dothesfor cool evenings, sleeping that we should have our retreat, if at wished to present themselves for text, on how a pratitioner should be, bags and pillows, hiking shoes and swim suits. all possible, on this very special examination for the various levels of if he or she wants a more global land, which is the physical place of A rented van will collect participants at the airport otherwise it is possible to Santi Maha Sangha would have to knowledge of the teachings. When origin of the Dance of the Vajra. rent a car. be full members of the Dzog-chen speaking in a more general way, Some obstacles did Camp Timberline has been booked from the evening of the 11th and it is Rinpoche again present themselves in suggested that retreat participants try to arrive the same evening in order to stressed - the that the Building be ready for the Teachings on the following day which will begin in the importance of respect Inspector refused to morning. and cooperation grant a permit for the The fee for the retreat is $200 in advance and a cost of $26 per day for among practitioners, erection of two large accommodation and three simple meals. those "on the same tents, one of which boat": He emphasised For information and booking contact: Susan Indien, 129 Kaelepulu Dr., would be a shelter for how each practitioner Kailua, HI 96734, tel. 808 2613469, fax 5244342. the teachings, and the needs to have comple­ other for food te respect for the distribution and dining. transmission of the New South Wales, Australia The reason for the teachings, and how to refusal was thatthe road keep that transmission From Friday December 11th to Sunday December 20th, Namkhai Norbu iss ue was still before the pure among all the Rinpoche will be giving teachings in NewSouth Wales, Australia. The retreat court. confused and negati­ will take place at Tiona Park on Myall Lakes. The Park is situated on a narrow "Now comes the ve manifestions of this isthmus between lake and ocean close to Myall Lakes National Park. There plaintiff..." began our period of time which is will be cabin accommodation and tent sites with all facilities. appeal, once more, to simetimes described Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals will be provided and are the impartial forces of as "Kaliyuga". recommended as the Park management prohibits cooking outside the reason at the Land Between teachings kitchen which is (imited to the caterers. Court, as we asked for sessions, practitioners Children are welcome. Accommodation rates are on a sliding scale according an injunction to facilita­ got together to practice to age and child care will be provided during teaching sessions at no extra te holding our retreat. the Dance of the Vajra charge. The judge granted us a and the Dance of the Registration costs are as follows: temporary injunction, , often with Rinpoche participating himself Cabin - catered $530 Aus., uncatered $390 Aus. ordering the Building Inspector to Community. Some of those present and examining each person's Cabin (concession) - catered $505 Aus., uncatered $365 Aus. issue our permits, and the retreat to at the meeting expressed concern accuracy in timing and movement. Tent - catered $470 Aus., uncatered $330 Aus. go ahead as it had in the past, that people with no money would find There was a group meeting for new Tent (concession) - catered $445 Aus., uncatered $305 Aus. providing that participants left the it difficult to pay membership dues. people who wished to learn the Registration must be accompanied by a deposit of $100 or payment in full land by 7.30 in the evening. Rinpoche then explained how in details of the short and medium tuns, sent to Michael Layden, c/o 95 Nicholson St., Abbotsford, Victoria 3067. At this point, we had been having M erigar there was a system whereby including the and Enquiries by phone: Melbourne - Helen McCallum (03) 380 9933. Gakyil meetings once a week in people could work for specified times visualisations. Also the Yantra Yoga order to organise everything. At on particular tasks in order to qualify teachers met to hone upthe accuracy weekends, everyone in the local for membership if they couldn't raise of their technique, in order to bring it Community participated in painting the money. Mérida & Caracas, Venezuela into line with the root text of Vairacana a , while Joe Zurylo also On Thursdayevening Rinpochegave constructed an earthwork berm at and Norbu Rinpoche's commentary. The Mérida Dzog-chen Community has begun preparing for Rinpoche's visit a public talk at Johnson Chapel, the very highest point on the land. All too soon the retreat came to an to Venezuela in February, 1993. At Michel and Carmen's, an organic Amherst College. He gave a general This became abaseforthe mandala. end. Rinpoche explained again the orchard will be set in order to obtain healthy vegetables for Rinpoche's food. outline of the Dzog-chen teachings JimSmith constructed aSang . importance of cooperation among Meat will be obtained from wild goats, which is regularly sold in theLagunillas and their origins to a large audience Prima Mai had arrived to teach the practitioners and stressed how we region, quite near Mérida city and eventually will be supplemented by meat fromthe local area. In previous years Communty the intricacies and can communicate with each other coming from Michel and Carmen's farm. Norbu Rinpoche had been invited to accuracies of the Dance of the Vajra. through fax, phone and 'The Mirror', We hope Rinpoche will be able to teach a course at the newly inaugurated speak there by Professor Robert Some three hundred people in orderto link up all the communities Chair of Eastern Studies in Mérida, but we have not received Rinpoche's Thurmon. This time Porfessor Janet attended Namkhai Norbu throughout the world. Referring to confirmation inthis regard. If confirmed, thecourse would prolong Rinpoche's Gyatso provided the space for us. In Rinpoche's public tak at the Open the legal problems and obstacles stay in Venezuela for a few more days. the recent past, the Mead Art Center, in New York City. Finally, present at Tsegyalgar, he The main events of the coming visit will be two of Rinpoche's typical retreats : Museum of Amherst College hosted encouraged the Community in the Rinpoche arrived on Monday Aug ust the Maraini exhibition. Professor a shorter one that will be held in Mérida and a longer one which will be held 3rd at Tsegyalgar. Among many understanding that this special land afterwards in Caracas. We also expect Fabio Andrioo to teach Yantra Yoga Janet Gyaltso assured us that was the place where the Dance of people from California, Australia, Amherst College will continue to during both retreats, as well as to keep teaching the Vajra Dance on the Argentina and various parts of the the Vajra was written down and Mandate at Michel and Carmen's in Mérida develop our relationship in the field practised forthe first time, and when world we held a Tsegyalgar Gakyil of Tibetan Religion and Culture. Thereafter,RinpochewillgotoCumanaforafewdaysofrest. Wehavealso something important manrfeststhere meeting with Rinpoche, and Finally, the retreat began on Friday, being thinking of taking Rinpoche to Amazonia to meet some local shamans are always strong forces that create discussed how we could arrange August 6th. Over the next few days and Indians, but this will depend on the conditions we encounter as well as obstacles. the introduction of membership Rinpoche gave the rLung of the on Rinpoche's schedule. cards for the Community. Rinpoche medium text of Santi Maha Sangha. We hope Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche's 1992 visit to our country will be most We performed the final ganapuja, pointed out that cards would be As many people in the Community successful and most profitable to members of the Venezuela Dzog-chen and with many tears and smiles, issued only from Merigar, Tashigar know, Santi Maha Sangha is an Community. another retreat came to a close.

ISSUE 16 5 H. H. the Dalai Lama Visits Argentina The Great Master saw His Holiness were very moved XVII Gyalwa Karmapa by his presence At the press conference there were many reporters who travelled from distant provinces to see and hear We are very happy to announce that the reincarnation of the XVI Gyalwa His Holiness. Karmapa has been found. Based on the testament left by the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa, the reincarnation was found in eastern Tibet on June 26th, 1985, The following Saturday morning, at bom to a nomadic family in Lhathok. He is now eight years old. The 7.30, the main theatre of the city was recognition of the young Karmapa has been authenticated by His Holiness filled with people waiting to receive his teachings. The Dalai Lama talked the Dalai Lama. about the three vehicles, , M ah ay an a and and gave the transmission of the of Chenresi, Manjusri, and Buddha Sakyamuni. When he left Cordoba he said he would Ike to return. This possible future visit in 1994 may be situated in the Andes, the mountain chain with the highest peak in America. Next, His Holiness went onto Buenos Aires, where he had a private by Alicia Caballero gave him the ceremonial "katags" interview with Président Menem on After months of preparation and hard and the Mayor of Cordoba offered his arrival. work on the part of the tour him the key of the city.After this, he He also took part in a ceremonial organizers, His Holiness the XIV was received by the Governor of the service at the Cathedral of Buenos Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso arrived Province. Then he went to the Aires where, for the first time, all the in Cordoba, Argentina on J une 12th. National University where he was representatives of the different His visit formed part of the South given the title of "Illustrious Visitor" religions in Argentina gathered American tour which included Brazil, by the Chancellor and the academic together to pray for world peace. He Argentina, Chile and Venezuela. His council. also gave teachings at the Chinese Holiness had already been in Brazil In the afternoon he was received by Buddhist Center and another for the inauguation of ECCO, the the Cardinal, head of the Catholic conference at the Congress. In a international congress for ecology. Church in Cordoba. Then he gave a public speech at the theatre for a full The "Friends of Tibetan Culture talk about universal responsibility at audience he exhorted the people to Foundation", a new organization that the university where more than a think about the demilitarization of unites members of all the Dharma thousand people attended. At the the planet, as a future goal of centers in Argentina, including the end of the conference a woman from humanity. Dzog-chen Community, organized the public said to him, "We hope that Later he departed for Chile leaving a the event. our love reaches you as your love vivid trail of love and compassion At the airport, three small children has touched us". The people who that touched every heart.

The Dalai Lama Visits Caracas The XVI Karmapa, who was the head of the Kagyu of , had passed away on November 6th, 1981. by the Mènda Dzog-chen Community The next day the meeting with Bolivar, with whom he discussed On June 17th, 1992, the young Karmapa was enthroned at Tsurphu No one was sure Yidshin Norbu, practitioners of Tibetan disciplines ethics and morality in public Monastery, the principal seat of the , by the high tukus and Gyalwa Rinpoche, the Tibetan and of other spiritual systems took behaviour. of the Palpung and Tsurphu Monasteries. Buddhist monk Tenzin Gyatso, would place at the Fundación Cultural Thereafter, he planted a tree in the The enthronement at Rumtek, the second principal seat of the Karmapas, finally visit Venezuela Hence the Humboldt (corresponding to the fields of the campus. Then in the was originally expected to take place in the tenth month of the Tibetan year outbursts of joy and enthusiasm of Goethe Institute in other countries). afternoon, he presided over a but this may not occur at that time. The date of the enthronement will be many Venezuelan Buddhists and All members of the Caracas meeting for world peace at the confirmed when the Regents Tai Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche practitioners of Tibetan disciplines Dzog-chen Community and some biggest theatre in Caracas - the return. when, as late as May, we learned members of the Mérida Community Teresa Carreno - which was so Information on the Karmapa and the enthronement date will be published as that His Holiness would visit (including Stefania Pochlinger and crowded it was necessary to set a soon as we receive further news. Venezuela in June. Rafael Guia, as well as those who giant screen outside for those who The Dalai Lama arrived at Maiquetia had been atthe airport) were present, couldn't get in. Realising the people Airport, near Caracas, at 7.30 on eager to be with Gyalwa Rinpoche. outside wanted to see him Saturday, June21 1992. AttheVIP Yeshe Norbu gave an introductory personally, His Holiness went outside lounge there waited Rafael Ortiz, talk on Dharma in terms of the to greet them before entering the official organiser of the visit and Gelugpa teachings and meditated theatre. And this time the amount of Inauguration of member of the Karma Theksum with us for a short time. people enchanted by his presence Choling, and the members of the His presence was so overwhelming was much greater than before, as it Drikung-Kagyu Institute board of Mozarteum Foundation, to many people that some cried while included many people who had never which financed and backed His others laughed, and some remained had any contact with Buddhism or In this year of the Water Monkey, on the 22nd day of the 9th month, the official Holiness' visit in all ways. perfectly still in meditation while with Tibetan disciplines. inauguration of the Drikung-Kagyu Institute at Jangchub Ling, Dehra Dun in Outside the lounge, there waited others were unable to stop moving After a few other events, including a India will take place. This evening which corresponds to November 16th in five other people, including Elias in their seats. When the meeting photo exhibition and very wide and the western calendar, is the day which commemorates the descent of Capriles from the Merida Dzog-chen ended, the Dalai Lama went on to a positive press and TV coverage, the Buddha Shakyamuni from the Paradise of Community and theChair of Eastern meeting with Venezuelan Tibetan Buddhist monk, Tenzin The year of the Monkey is important in the twelve year cycle of the Tibetan Studies of the University of the intellectuals in the home of Rabbi Gyatso left the country by the same calendar because it marks the birth and death of Buddha Shakyamuni and Andes, and Francisco Toro, also Pinchas Brenner. means he had come. The feelings of also the miraculous departure of Guru Rinpoche for the Lands of the belonging to the Chair of Eastern many people, however, were very On Mondaythe members of theChair South-West. ItisalsoasignrficantyearfortheDrikung-Kagyutraditionforthe Studies. With his characteristic style different than afew days before: His of Eastern Studies had to leave very Trel-lo Ka-cho Chenmo teachings of the year of the Monkey which only take and manifest love and compassion, Holiness had won apriviledged place early for Mérida, where the Chair place during that year and thus only once every twelve years the Dalai Lama stopped to hold the in many Venezuelan hearts that had was to be inaugurated. Later in the This year, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama will preside over the week-long hands of all those who had come to never thought about exotic monks or day His Holiness met with a group of activities atthe Drikung-Kagyu Institute at Jang Chubling and will inaugurate greet him. yogis from the Himalayas. studentsfromthe Universidad Simon the Drikung-Kagyu Institute. During the festival, traditional tantric dances will be performed for two days by the monks of the Gaon Tashi Chozang, Lamayuru Tharpa Ling and Shachukul Phuntsog Choling monasteries from Ladakh. The dances are unique and very detailed and have a history of more than 600 years from the SPONSOR A TIBETAN STUDENT time of the Vth Dalai Lama. The ceremonies for opening the Institute will take place on November 16th The Shang-Shung Institute is planning to invite some Tibetan students from Tibet to come to followed by two days of ritual tantric dance. H. H. the Dalai Lama will give Europe to study Dzog-chen teachings and the history and culture of Tibet. These students will teachings on November 19th and 20th. The programme which will include be able to carry this knowledge of the Dzog-chen teachings and history of Tibet back to their consecrating the new meditation centre, teachings and initiations will con­ own country which will be very important for future generations of Tibetans. If you would like tinue until November 29th. to sponsor one or more of these students please contact: For further information or to make a reservation contact: Drikung-Kagyu Institute, Jang Chubling, Post Box 48, Dehra Dun 248001, SHANG-SHUNG INSTITUTE, VIA DEGLI OLMI 1, 58031 ARCIDOSSO GR, ITALY. TEL 564 966940 U. P. India.

ISSUE 16 6 Growing Community in Poland Athens Vajra Dance by Giovanni Area future there will be a newsletter truly because they are expecting a lot of I think that I would never have gone represent at ive of the Community with people. by Panayiotis StamboUs to Poland because for me it has a list of Community contacts in the During the practice retreat besides From June 13th to 17th a Vajra Dance course was held in Athens under the always been a place like Graham's major cities and a list of publications taking about the Teaching and the instruction of Prima Mai. Although Prima Mai arrived before the beginning of Land or Easter Island. I know that that are available in Polish. We spoke practices, we also spoke a lot about the course it was quite difficult to find the eight metre square area that is the these places exist somewhere and with Jacek Sieradzan from Krakow, the Dzog-chen Community and the space required for the Dance but we finally found space in a ballet school. in some way but apart from their who is well-known for his long people who were there asked many About 12 members of the Greek community regularly attended the lessons remoteness they are places that have experience in translating and questions. The function of a gar, a which lasted for five days. never really entered my mind. publishing the writings and teachings gakyil, the three colours of the gakyil On Tuesday the 16th of June we had the opportunity to have the lessonln Almost as if by magic I found myself of Norbu Rinpoche, about organizing and many other things related to the an isolated space of a forest at the top of Mt. Pam it ha, near the place where there when twenty-four hours an editorial activity for the Polish Community and its correct Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche gave a retreat about three years ago. As usual we previously I dtdn 1 even have a valid Community. People greatly look functioning as an institution were did a short Tun before starting the Dance and once we started dancing we passport. So now Poland has entered forward to Rinpoche's next visit and made clear. During our just didn't want to leave the place, although it was getting dark. my mind and has a special place are already taking about organizing conversations great importance was We were all very satisfied with the course and during and after it we had the there. for it. All the people I met showed a given to developing a correct attitude feeling that the bonds linking us got stronger and better. Impressions of the retreat: thirty great respect for him and they have in the initial forming and organizing We aHwishto express ourgratrtudeto Prima Mai whose patience, persistence, people from all parts of the country, great consideration for him and the phases of the Dzog-chen Community kindness and most of all her capacity to teach the Dance made it possible all extremely motivated to learn and teaching as being rare and precious, in new places, such as Poland, about for us learn a large part of it. practice Dzog-chen teaching; an old something which it is extremely for­ keeping present the motivation for After the course we have met twice just to do the Dance and we were very mill which has been restored and is tunate to meet and for which they following the teachings and trying to pleased to find that we haven't forgotten it. Although summer in Greece is a usually reserved for are even ready to make many act inaway which conforms with the difficult time ot organ iza things, we'll try to meet as often as possible to dance. practitioners, immersed in the sacrifices. principles of the teachings. We also hope to be able to invite Prima Mai again before the end of the year greenery and flanked by a stream Poland has a strong Catholic If, from the beginning, one develops for a more organized and intensive course on the Vajra Dance so that we can where we bathed; beautiful rocks to tradition. Under Communism the acorred attitude understanding the learn the rest of it and also for those people who didn't have the possibility which clung large trees with their Church became a and today fundamental principles wh ich are the to participate in the first course. twisted roots entangled around the is becoming the true social identity base of a practitioner's behaviour, boulders until they reached the of the nation. Because it is a social then it will be difficult for many ground. tradition, religion permeates people's problems to arise and those which inevitably do can be resolved without We went to see some houses which lives with functions and rituals creating conflicts and breaks in the New French Gakyil the Community inPoland might buy. marking the various moments of Community. Building laws there are quite growth in the life of an individual Red Cécile Belle "relaxed" and the prices, according which are not easy to avoid without In the near future Rinpoche will be Patrick Dupuy-Roudel 62, rye des Piyrénées, 75029 Paris to our European standards, are upsetting the social order. Some asked to form a Gakyil there and Baynat d'en Líense, 66300 CaJxas. Tel. 43717003 incredibly low. We had the idea that young practitioners that I met had there are already many people who Tel: 68388921 Poland might become an ideal place considerable problems following a want to actively collaborate in the life Patrice Lakhdari Yellow for many practitioners who want to spiritual path which was not Catholic. of the Community. Dominique Espaze Laurent Soen do retreats for several weeks. It's For others it is difficult to participate From my visit to Poland I am 13, rue des Nanettes, 75011 Paris. Derka Bel Avenir, 56770 Plouray. easy to reach from the north of in retreats and some others were convinced that the Polish Community Tel: 97348527 Europe, the countries of the even asked to leave home because is being born auspiciously because Tel: (1) 43381895 Yann Leguen ex-Soviet Union and even from Italy they were Buddhists. For us these it is based on a genuine interest and Blue from where, for example, it takes no problems seem strange and at the consideration for the Dzog-chen Eric Viosin 12D, chemin Maisonneuve, 1219 longer than a day by car. Of course, beginning of my visit I found them teaching. I would like to send all best "Dade", Place de l'Eglise, 66500 Chatelaine, CH. for the moment, it's only an idea but difficult to believe. wishes both from myself and 'The Villefranche-de-Conflent. Tel: 41 22 7973721 for several reason s it's cert ai nly wort h People are also looking forward to Mirror'. Tel: 68960054 Philippe Renucci Nicole Bini 214, rue de Paris, 93100 Montreuil. being taken into consideration in the the course of Yantra Yoga which I hope to see our Polish friends here Tel: 53829804 Tel: (1) 48705850 near future. Fabio Andrico will give there in soon at Merigar or in Poland or in September and they are searching We spoke about organizing beptember ana tney are searching other placpiace in thtne worlwonad wherwnere thtne This s the 4th French Gakyil and was formed during the retreat in Pans. for a larger space for this period Song of the Vajra is sung. published material and in the near for a larger space for this period Song of the Vajra is sung. A Gakyil (pronounced ganchee) is a group of people who are responsible for the organization and administration of a Gar or the organization of the Dzog-chen praditioners in aspedfic country. The Gakyil is reformed each year, but individual members can stay in office for one, two or a maximum The Children in the Dzog-chen Community of three years. The odours, red yellow and blue, represent the different aspeds of the state of the individual and correspond to the various tasks d by Marit Cranmer the Gakyil. Since the time of the founding of our Community in 1982, quite a few children have been born. Also the children from that time are now young adults. I wonder what they think, Shang-Shung Library Books what they have understood, how they feel about all our adivities? If any readers are able to donate books on Tibetology in any language to the At the moment they have many Library ot the Shang-Shung Institute, please send them to the following needs according to age and their address: family situations. When they arrive at Merigar how do we best respond to these children? Shang-Shung Institute Library, Via Olmi 1, It is easy to dream of a chikfrens' 58037 Arcidosso GR, Italy. house, nicely equipped and surrounded by an exciting game-park In particular, the Library is looking for the following books: where they have their toys, do Bacd, Jacques. Three Tibetan Mysteries. workshops, folkdance, puppet- Bell, Charles. Portrait of the Dalai Lama. 1946. theatre, listen to fairy tales- and more. Bernard, Theos. Penthouse of the Gods. 1939. But at the moment this is out of Bonvald, Gabriel. Across Tibet. 1892. reach, due partly to lack of funding and local friends. About 15 to 20 Cristiana del Falco has offered to Burang, Theodore. The Tibetan Art oi Healing. 1983. and partly to the local building people met together one Saturday teach the Kumar-Kumari Yantra Candler, Edmund. The Unveiling of Lhasa 1905. permission. However it is not afternoon on the veranda at Merigar, Yoga for children that Rinpoche Carey, William. Adventures in Tibet. 1901. impossible, just as we today have a to tak about this. It was good to get taught at Easter in Merigar. Also Chapman, F. Spencer. Lhasa the Holy City. 1940. beautiful Gonpa and shortly a very together, exchange views and touch Andreas Hannig will establish a Crosby, Oscar Terry. Tibet and Turkestan. 1905. impressive library will be completed. upon some of these different aspects. childrens' theatre group after the Enders, Gordon & Edward Anthony. Nowhere Else in the World. 1935. It may be a matter of time, of will and It was dear to start with that the Tibetan Language conference in Fleming, Peter. Bayonets to Lhasa 1961. also of people who care for and are issues were too big and too many to August/September. Ford, Robert. Wind Between the Worlds. 1957. seriously concerned about the try to aim for definite conclusions. These were the few concrete points Forman, Harrison. Through Forbidden Tibet. 1935. Community's children in the future But a few things became very dear. that came about but it is quite dear Goldstein, Melvyn C. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951. 1989. to do the required pulling and The small gonpa that is now used as that if we are serious about showing Goldstein, Melvyn C.& Cynthia M. Beali. Nomads of Western Tibet. 1990. pushing. the children's room is not large more concern for the Community Guenther. Jewel Ornament of Liberation. Then there are also other issues, enough and conflids with other children in the future, there is a need Guenther. Kindly Bent to Ease Us. concerning these small beings. needs at the Yellow House. for more people to be involved with Guibaut, Andre. Tibetan Venture in the Country of the Ngolo-Setas. 1948. When the children join in our A few people like Cicci d'Arista and ideas, both about concrete projeds Pelliot, Paul (ed.). Hue and Gäbet, Travels in Tartary, Tibet & Ganapuja, what dothey understand, Jo Shane will make a little booklet arid more problematic ethical issues. 1844-1846. 2 vds. 1928. what do they think? How can we together with illustrations explaining Then, perhaps, most of all it is Rijnhart, Susie C. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple. 1901. explain what and why we are doing the little Ganapuja that Namkhai important to be a bit active so that it Rockhill, William Woodville. The Land of the Lamas. 1891. without conditioning, without creating Norbu Rinpoche wrote espedally for is not only nice words and nothing Sis, Vladimir & Josef Vanis. On the Road Through Tibet. 1956. conf lids with their dairy life of school the children. more. Yang, Ho-Chin. The Annals of Kokonor. 1969.

ISSUE 16 1 Supporting Translations Merigar Prog ra mmel by Marit Cranmer To create an opportunity for more by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. AUTUMN - WINTER 1992-93 In the past, several scholars in the texts to be translated and published Also Cristiana De Falco is hoping to Dzog-chen Community have it is necessary to provide financial do some more translation, as advised translated very important texts of support. At the moment there are by Norbu Rinpoche. SaL 19th Sept 10.00 Purification of the Six Lokas both living masters such as Namkhai several interesting books that are To enable this work to happen, it is Norbu Rinpoche and others such as waiting to be translated. Among the important that the whole Dzog-chen 15.00 Dance of the Vajra Guru , Manju- most urgent are some recently Community gives its support, ft is Sun.20th Sept. 10.00 Purification of the Six Lokas srimrtra, etc. written by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, clear that as soon as one text is 15.00 Dance of the Vajra translated from Tibetan to one We­ Mon.21st Sept. 19.00 Day. Ganapuja stern language, it can then more Thure.24th Sept 18.00-21.00 Naggon easily be translated to several other Fri.25th Sept. 18.00-21.00 Naggon Western languages. In this way more SaL26th Sept. 9.00 Xitro people have the possibility to develop their understanding of the Dzog-chen 10.30 Yoga teaching. 15.00 Karma Yoga In addition to this there are probably SaL3rdOct. 9.00 Practice of Tara also other translators who would 10.30 Karma Yoga dedicate their time and knowledge if 15.00 Karma Yoga For the future study and which Adriano Clemente has agreed the financial issue were not a Sun.4thOct. 9.00 Practice of Tara understanding of the Dzog-chen to translate in the near future: problem. 10.30 Karma Yoga teachings in the West, this often Yantra Yoga; Santi Maha Sangha; In agreement with Namkhai Norbu 15.00 Karma Yoga difficult and strenuous work is of Tise'i 'od ("The Light of Kailash", the Rinpoche, I therefore request Tues. 6th Oct 19.00 Padmasambhava Day. Ganapuja extremely high value. history of Zhang Zhung, 3 volumes). donations forthis project as it is very Fri. 9th Oct. 18.00 Long Life Practice UP.E. Some of these scholars have the He will also translate four important for the future. good opportunity to do this work in fundamental short texts of the Financial support can be sent to: SaL 10th Oct. 18.00 Long Life Practice UP.E. connection with a university or Sems-sde, known as the "Four "Translations", Sun. 11th Oct 10.00 Full moon institute, whereas others of Total Eq uality" (M nyam-pa Dzog-chen Community Merigar, Long Life Practice UP.R unfortunately do not. chen-po rgyud-bzhi) as suggested 58031 Arcidosso GR, Italy. 15.00 Karma Yoga SaL 17th Oct. 17.00 Meeting of Practitioners Sun. 18th Oct. 10.30 Practitioners' proposals Wed. 21st Oct. 18.30 Dakini Day. Practice of PLANS FOR A BIOHOUSE Simhamukha and Ganapuja Fri.23rdOct 18.30-21.30 Naggon SaL24thOct. 9.00-18.30 Naggon with Ganapuja TheCOABITcooperative is planning A) acquisition of a double room Merigar (or any other Gar) from the Sun.25th Oct 10.00 New moon. Purification of the Six to build a big communal house Lit.90.000.000 percentage due to the "Associazio­ following the principles of B) acquisition of a single room ne Culturale Comunità Dzog-chen" Lokas Bioarchitecture. Lit.60.000.000 (to be decided according to the Wed.28thOct. 18.30 Anniversary of Jigmed Lingpa It will be constructed using the plans C) use of a double room with internal regulations by the Guruyoga with White A of whoever wins the International multi-ownership co-owners). SaL31stOct. 16.00 Practice of Avalokitesvara Competition of Ideas for the most - for one week every four months Co-owners of a s hare of a room or of Sun. 1st Nov. 10.00 Practice of Avalokitesvara beautiful bioarchitectural con­ Lit.9.000.000 a room will at the same time be Wed.4thNov. 18.00 Guru Padmasambhava Day. struction. This competition has been - for two weeks every four months co-owners of a proportional share of Long Life Practice U.W.U. organized by COABIT with this house Lit. 16.000.000 the rest of the complex, communal as its objective. Technicians from all spaces, equipment etc. and as such SaL7thNov. 16.00 Vajrapani Practice over the world will take part in the will share in the benefits of the ma­ Sun.8thNov. 10.00 Vajrapani Practice competition and the prize will be nagement of the complex, including 18.30 Long Life Practice of Amitayus assigned by an international jury in the use of the multi-purpose room, U.P.E. August 1993 in Arcidosso. COABIT the kitchen, refectory and anything Mon.9th Nov. 18.30 Long Life Practice UP.R Afterwards there will be a convention else connected with the Biohouse or Tues. 10th Nov. 18.30 Full moon. Long Life Practice of during which the works entered for communal dwelling. Amitayus UP.E. the competition will be presented D) use of a single room with Members who book acœrnrnodation SaL 14th Nov. 9.00 Practice of the Short Tun and the various techniques adopted multi-ownership will make their payments to COABIT Namkha Course will be compared. - for one week every four months who will be responsible for the ma­ Sun. 15th Nov. Namkha Course Thebuilding should contain: a larder, Lrt.6.000.000 nagement of the funds: ten percent kitchen, refectory, and a large - for two weeks every four months of the total sum according to the Mon. 16th Nov. 18.00 Anniversary of the descent of multi-purpose room (for confer­ Lit. 11.000.000 choice made should be fully paid at Buddha. Practice of ences, videos, seminaries, courses, E) use of a room with 5 beds the time when the booking deeds Thürs. 19th Nov. 18.00 Guruyoga with White A are drawn up; twenty percent of the etc.) as well as offices for manage­ - for one week every four months Anniversary of Adzam Drugpa sum, as stipulated above, when the ment and ad ministration, accessand Lit. 1.000.000 SaL 21st Nov. 16.00 Xitro Practice vertical connections (stairs or lifts?) building permits are granted; thirty - for two weeks every four months Sun. 22nd Nov. 10.00-19.00 Naggon and toilet facilities in conformity Lit.2.000.000 percent of the sum, as stipulated above, when building work begins; Mon. 23rd Nov. 18.30-21.30 Naggon with the public regulations (DPR The rooms will be fully furnished thirty percent of the sum, as Tues.24th Nov. 18.00 New moon. Medium Tun with n.384 of 27-04-1978 and n.13 of with everything necessary except stipulated above, when the roof is 09-01-1985 and also LR. linen and laundry facilities. Practice of Ekajati finished; the remaining ten percent 09-04-1985 n.32 of the region of The calendar of periods will be SaL 28th Nov. 18.00 Chod Practice at the time of assignment and Toscana); on a different level there pre-established and can be made Sun. 29th Nov. 18.00 Chod Practice contemporaneous handing over of will be bedrooms, some single and available for inspection by those Fri 4th Dec. 18.00 Guru Padmasambhava Day. the legal deeds of ownership. some double, complete with booking accommodation before Ganapuja with Long Life Practice The possibility of taking out a bathrooms and large balconies; signing for the booking. mortgage is not excluded, in which U.W.U. there should be sufficient rooms to The plans of the Biohouse or case the members who book SaL 5th Dec. 10.00 Yantra Yoga Course accommodate a maximum of thirty communal dwelling will be extended accommodation can make use of it. 15.00 Yantra Yoga people; the kitchen and refectory to the other Gars (according to the With this scale of payments CO AB IT should be big enough to cater for a decisions of their Gakyils), in this 18.00 Long Life Practice C.L.V. could start the construction of the maximum of seventy people, taking way exchanges can be made for Sun. 6th Dec. 10.00 Yantra Yoga Course Biohouse with the assurance of into account the maximum capacity periods of staying in different places; 15.00 Yantra Yoga having enough funds to finish it, of the assembly room (seventy members can make agreements 18.00 Long Life Practice CL. V. people). without having to depend on the among themselves to put together Mon. 7th Dec. 9.00 Practice of Tara funds of the "Associazione", which is their periods of stay to make one The building will be managed by a already contributing by putting at our 10.30 Yantra Yoga course single long stay (for example) or, in company (initially CO AB IT) who will disposition the rights to the surface 15.00 Yantra Yoga cases of necessity, can ask the nominate an administrator, and who of the land. 18.00 Long Life Practice CL. V. will operate according to the internal management to arrange the period Tues. 8th Dec. 9.00 Practice of Tara regulations as approved and adopted acquired in the most convenient way COABIT wants to emphasise this 10.30 Yantra Yoga course by the members (who have booked possible; or by buying a room one way of intervening in the building on accommodation) along the lines of a can have total use of it including the land of Merigar as indispensable, 15.00 Yantra Yoga simple management of a block of heredity. in that in the future the "Associazio­ 18.00 Practice of Tara flats. This project should allow interested ne Culturale Comunità Dzog-chen" Wed. 9th Dec. 18.00 Full moon. Long Life Members who book accommodation members to enjoy the priviledge of will not have the possibility refinance Practice C.L.V. with Ganapuja can either acquire a permanent room lodgings within the property of any project at all, even though Sat 12th Dec. 18.00 Chod Practice interesting and necessary, without a or more simply the free use of a Merigar, and at thesametime create Sun 13th Dec. 18.00 Chod Practice work for those who manage it and self-supporting and rigourously room during specific periods SaL 19th Dec 18.00 Dakini Day. Ganapuja according to the following table: guarantee an annual income for controlled plan.

ISSUE 16 8 From the Bal Vilnius, Lithuania Roerich's Memorial Study, Moscow

On July.7th, 1992, Prof. Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, invited to Russia by the Dzog-chen Communities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ulan-Ude and the Public Institute of Buddhism to give Dzog-chen seminars, visited the Memorial Study of Yu. N. Roerich in Moscow. The Study is located at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences where Yury N. Roerich worked. Yury Nkolaevich the elder son of the famous Russian artist Nikolai Roerich, was an Orientalistist, Tibetologist and Buddhologist, and a brilliant specialist in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Mongolian languages. Together with his father he travelled to Central Asia, Tibet and Mongolia. The retreat in Vilnius, Lithuania (photo Fabio Andrico) The Memorial Study, set up in 1960, selected works of Yu. N. Roerich Buddhism, Mr. T. G. Rabdanov. preserves about a thousand rare and his ten volume There was a creative and fruitful tak by Aushra Danieliute Tibetan xylographs and manuscripts, Tibetan-Russian-English Dictionary during which Prof. Norbu Rinpoche Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania on May 19th. We thanka and other articles brought by with Sanscrit Parallels. Dr. V. S. answered a number of questions knew him already from his books, from The Mirror, from films and the many Yury Roerich from expeditions. The Dylykova has written a monograph, about his life and activities in Tibet taks we had had with Fabio Andrico. But up to the very last moment it was Study also houses modem Japanese Tibetan Literature" (1986). At the and India and the circumstances of difficult to believe that we were actually going to see him and listen to his editions of the Tibetan Kanjur and end of 1992, The Atlas of Tibetan his coming to Italy on invitation of a Teachings. Tanjur and the Buddhist canon in Medicine" will be published by well-known Tbetotogist, Dr. D. Tuce i. We were very excited when we went to meet him but no miracles happened, Chinese. "Sovetsky Khudozhnik" ("Soviet At the conclusion of the meeting, a no rainbow appeared and nobody felt any vibrations. Under a straw hat we The curators, Mr. Yu. A Tsygankov Artist") Publishers, prepared jointly mutual interest was expressed to saw the smiling face of the man we had already known for a long time. and Dr. V. S. Dylykova told the guests by Dr. Dylykova and Dr. Yu. M. develop academic contacts and an The other people who accompanied him also seemed familiar to us. Fabio about their collection and the Parfionovich. exchange of information. Andrico was the same as he was last year. When he arrived, his first words activities to study Yu. N. Roerich's The meeting was also attended by were, "Where are my zeppelina?", his favourite Lithuanian dish. heritage. experts of the Institute of Oriental The Institute of Oriental Studies, The retreat took place in a sanatorium in a beautiful place beside a lake. More In particular, "Vostochnaya Studies. Dr. V. I. Kornev, Dr. V. P. Russian Academy of Sciences, than a hundred people were present. Literatura" ("Oriental Literature") Andorsov, Dr. I. S. Lisevich and the Rozhdestvenka Street 12, Moscow, When we were not listening to Teachings we went swimming or rested in a Publishers has published the Director of the Public Institute of Russia. grove duringthe breaks. Everyone was very happy to receive the transmission and intended to continue practising in the future. Fabio gave two lessons of Yantra Yoga and at the end of the retreat we had Dancing in St. Petersburg a Ganapuja. On the other days, Norbu Rinpoche explained different practices and showed us some of the movements of the Vajra dance. It was wonderful to see Rinpoche making friends and playing with the movements. Sometimes the Dance children commu nicating with them in some spontaneous ly invented language. continued even in my dream-state. The children seemed to fall in love with him and brought him flowers and Each succeeding dance gives garlands. deeper experience. One night we made a fire by the lake and everybody sang their national Rinpoche told us that all our life is a songs. Dance of the Vajra. Who knows how ft was wonderful to leave the everyday routine and spend several days much time it will take us to learn the together with the many different people who participated in the retreat We Dance of Life and to have the real were sad when it ended and had to return home but we were very happy to knowledge of what his words really have received so many practices and lock forward to Rinpoche's next visit. mean? Riga, Latvia

(photo Martha Heinen)

by Anna Rudnieva cheerfully laughing sometimes at our Everyone has his own unique world awkward steps. And it was really of gestures. Each nation, each race funny to watch us adults who were has its specif iccharacteristics of body like creatures that hardly knew how movement. These movements seem and where to step. to be the manifestation of the inner The Mandala in St. Petersburg was condition: a balanced person is easy painted on a coarse canvas and by to recognize because he moves in a the end of the retreat our socks were relaxed way while a tense person in holes. usually moves Ike a skein of coarse After a while we began to feel the wire driven by the wind. influence of the Dance not only In June of this year, the many different because of the holes in our socks: people who participât ed in the retreat our condition after the dance was of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche in St. more pure and harmonious than Petersburg, Russia, were united in before. We felt new shades of the the state by the sound of music and relationship between body and mind. The Mandala for the Dance of the Vajra with dancers at Jurmala, a famous movements, dancing the " A My own experience was that after resort on the Baltic Sea not far from Riga where the retreat took place. HUM" dance. For most of us it was the Dance the world seemed to In the centre of the Mandala where the Dance was performed is a birch tree the first experience of this kind. We contain more space than ever, over which is written, "Movement is Life". were fascinated by the gracious and motions, sounds and colours lived in More than a hundred people from Latvia other Baltic countries and Russia elegant movements of Norbu unison, united by one wave. participated in the ten-day retreat at Jurmala, which was within easy reach Rinpoche who patiently and gently Even when the Dance stopped, my of Riga by train. continued to teach us the dance, body still continued to do the

ISSUE 16 9 tic to Buryatia A Journey to Buryatia

Mountain panorama near Ulan Ude (photo Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche)

The retreat near Lake Baikal, Buryatia (photo John Shane)

by John Shane Dzog-chen Communities in St. in an army recreational facility close To accompany Namkhai Norbu Petersburg, Moscow and Buryatia. by the shore of a lake. We slept in Rinpoche on his first visit to Russia In each of these places we made army tents, eight to a tent, and the was a very deeply moving mándalas for the Dance of the Vajra teachings were held in the open air experience. The kindness of our - in gymnasiums in St. Petersburg under the sparse shade of the birch hosts - who took care of all our and Moscow, and on the paving trees of the forest. The famous needs in a country where those of us stones of an open air dance floor in Buryatian mosquitoes, that can bite (photo Fabio Andríco) travelling with Rinpoche were the middle of the woods in Buryatia. through two layers of socks received Explaining a ritual at Lake Baikal unfamiliar with the language and Learning the dance together pulled the benefit of our hapless generosity. culture and where it can take a whole each group into contemplative Many Buryat people attended the morning of complex negotiation to relationship at each of the retreats retreat, a fair number of them of change a plane ticket or four hours as we moved around the mandala, Asian appearance, as well as the of queuing to fill the petrol tank of a an d the mand al a became a metaphor westerners accompanying Rinpoche car - was matched only by their joy at for the outer and inner journeys we and those intrepid Lithuanians and finally meeting the master whose were all making. After the two retreats Russians who followed the master books and tapes they had studied of two weeks each in the great cities so far from their homes: we were, for many years, often in very difficult of St. Petersburg and Moscow, we after all, much closer to Peking than circumstances. flew eastward within the ex-Soviet Moscow in Buryatia. The presence of the master inspired Union for eight hours to Ulan Ude One evening we hired a boat called confidence, cleared away from where we went by bus deep 'The Mirage', appropriately enough, confusions, and dispelled doubts in into the steppes and wild forests of and aft er aquick swim with Rinpoche the process of forming new Buryatia where the retreat was held in its icy waters, cruised around Lake Baikal. As the sun set over the islands, I felt a wild and indescribable joy, dancing spontaneously with Rinpoche on the boat's deck to the poly ryth mie beat set up by the boat's toiling engine. After the retreat we visited the local temple near Ulan Ude - the Datsan - Ivolginsk Datsan near Ulan Ude (photo Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche) where Rinpoche lunched with the lamas and gave a short talk. The temple is very beautiful, built in Tibeto-Mongolian style, with practitioners living in wooden houses all around. The next day our taxi to the airport for our flight back to Moscow threw up a cloud of dust in the central square of Ulan Ude where a huge head of Lenin still dominates the scene, the sculptor it is said, having put two bottles of vodka inside to represent the two hemishperes of his brain. His gaze seemed unfocussed as we passed, perhaps uncertain now of the future of his erstwhile empre, while the eyes of statues of the wrathful divinities in the temple museum down the road on the other side of town gazed ferociously towards him through walls and doors perhaps silently The Trans-Siberian Railway. Distance from Moscow to Ulan Ude 5648 challenging him with the truth of the km. Time 4 days. A round trip made by eight travellers who participated true nature of reality. in the retreats. (photo Martha Heinen)

ISSUE 16 10 Kunteschoinei Datsan Kalachakra Temple

by Jean Macintosh America. He taught marry Am erican DuringNamkhaiNorbu Rinpoche 's Buddhists such as Geoffrey Hopkins visit to St Petersburg, Russia in and Robert Thurm an and wrote a June, some days of the teaching number of books, "The Prince who retreat were held in a large Buddhist became a Cuckoo; A Tale of Temple in a suburb called Staraya Liberation", "The Door of Derevnya. The Temple is three Liberation" (1973) and "The stories high, a very solid looking Jewelled Staircase" (1986). He building made of Finnish granite. recently died and did not return to At the front or southern side, there is Russia before his death. a portico with eight huge pillars Another important student of with Tibetan style decoration which Dorzhiev was Agwan Nyima, who overlook the garden and the banks also studied in Goman College near of a river, the Small Neva. The Lhasa. He also escaped to India and Temple and garden which are eventually went to South India where surrounded by a high wall take up Goman Collage was re-established one block of land in its entirety. On in Kamak. He became the Abbot of top of the pillared portico stands a the new Goman College and a few statue of the Dharm a Wheel, flanked years ago he met Lama Samayev by gilded gazelles. Tenzin-Khetsun, the present Abbot The name of the Temple is of Kuntsechoinei Temple when Kunteschoinei Datsan, 'The Source Lama Samayev visited Goman of the Holy Teaching, Dharma of college in South India. the Great Hermit, Buddha It was the first time since he left Compassionate to All Beings". The Russia that Agwan Nyima had met construction of this Temple began a monk from Buryatia. He died two years ago, but the Abbot and monks in 1909 and was finished, except for St. Petersburg Datsan (courtesy of Viadimir Montlevich) the interior decoration, in 1915. It is at Kuntesechoinei are happy they were able to make this connection a Kalachakra Temple and was first he became a tutor of the Thirteenth 1919 the Red Army looted the Institute of Leningrad. between the old generation of lamas consecrated in 1915. Dalai Lama of Tibet and his close Temple, destroyed all the The beginning of perestroika in who knew Agwan Dorzhiev and the advisor. He worked hard to restore furnishings, bronze and silver Russia meant a new hope for free new generation of lamas which is the traditional ties between Tibetan statues, a bronze statue of developmentof religion. Since 1985 White Tsars now beginning in Russia. The Abbot and Russian Buddhists which had and a large Sakyamuni Buddha as Buddhist communities have formed and the monks wish to restore the The story of the 83 years of history become disrupted and with Ulis aim well astile Temple library withmany in St. Petersburg, Moscow, spritiual tradition from Goman of this Temple is a fascinating one Dorzhiev obtained permission from rare books. Dorzhiev made a protest Novosibirsk and the Baltic states as Collage and to establish links as it also encompasses the history of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas to the government as the well as the traditional communities between Buryatia, Tibet, Russian Buddhists. II to build a Buddhist Tern pie in St. representative of the Tibetan of Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmukia. In Dharamsala, Goman College and Tibetan Buddhism came to Russia Petersburg. His Holiness the Dalai government and finally the Temple 1990 the Temple was returned to a Kuntsechoinei Datsan. around the 17th century. Some Lama supported this initiative and two adjoining bui ldings became local society of Buddhists. Gelugpa lamas came from Tibet to because of his interest in Russian the joint property of Tibet and Mongolia and then into Buryatia, Buddhists and gave a considerable Mongolia. Restoration Lama Samayev Kalmukia and Tuva in Russia. In amount of money towards the The Mongolian government 1741, the Empress Elizabeth of construction of the Temple. provided for the restoration of the At present the Kuntsechoinei Datsan The present Abbot of Kuntsechoinei Russia recognised Buddhism as a The construction took six years. Temple and the Mongolian and is functioning once more with Lama Datsan comes from Orlik in religion in Buryatia and Kalmukia Dorzhiev himself bought the land Tibetan lamas came to serve there. Samayev Tenzin-Khetsun as the Buryatia, a mountainous region very and the clergy were given legal and many citizens of St. Petersburg This remained the situation until the Abbot and a number of Buryatian similar to Tibet It is often called status. Last year, 1991, there were contributed money. The ruler of 1930's when Buddhist monasteries monks training and living there. It "LittleTibet" as there are yaks there official celebrations on the Mongolia contributed a large sum in the Republic of Buryatia and the was surprising to see these monks in and customs are similar to those of anniversary of 250 years of and Buddhist practitioners from KalmukiaAutonomousRegionwere traditional Tibetan robes speaking Tibet. When Lama Samayev was a . It is said that Buryatiaand Kalmukia gave money closed or destroyed one after the and studying Tibetan. They offered child, religion was prohibited but in because of the ir supportof Buddhism and their craftsmen worked on the other and their books and religious the use of the Temple for the retreat his village people practised Tibetan building. the Russian monarclis from the time objects were destroyed. The lamas of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and medicine and he had a strong desire of Catherine II were considered to There were many obstacles to the either escaped or were killed. also for Dzog-chen community to study it. He began his studies in be incarnations of White Tara. They constructing of the Temple and in In 1933 the last Buddhist service practices in the future. St. Petersburg in 1971. After five were known as the "White Tsars"! its successful functioning. Times was conducted.in Kuntsechoinei At present the Abbot and the monks years at the University he went to During the 18th century, the people were not easy in Russia with firstly Temple. In 1935 a large group of wish to restore the spiritual lineage Ulan Bator in Mongolia for his of Buryatia, Kalmukia and Tuva the First World War (1914-1918), lamas who came from Buryatiawere of this Temple which began with practical course. There he met a followed the ancient traditions of then the Bolshevic Revolution of arrested by Stalin's secret police Agwan Dorzhiev. In 1925 Agwan spiritual master, a Mongolian lama Tibetan Buddhism. They established 1917 and the civ il war of 1918-1920. and given sentences of hard labour. Dorzhiev took a few of his closest who impressed him very much. He libraries of Tibetan , Dorzhiev attempted to carry on the In 1937 many people in the Buddhist students to Lhasa and his last then decided he wanted to study practised Tibetan medicine and community including studentsof the teachings of Buddhism tlirough all message to them was to study and religion at the Mongolian Buddhist developed religious education, art School of Buddhology were this upheaval and tried to maintain "not to return" to Russia. Perhaps to Institute in Ulan Bator but he was and the printing of books. There was condemned to death and executed these students it was an unusual the independence of the Temple. not able to enter this course until continuous contact and on the same day. They were buried message but it seems that Agwan Agwan Dorzliiev was a semi-official 1980. After five years he graduated communication with Tibet even in mass graves in St. Petersburg. Dorzhiev had predicted the difficult representative of the Dalai Lama and went to Ivolginsky Datsan near though the journey took at least six Agwan Dorzliiev went to Buryatia times that lay ahead for Buddhism and the Tibetan government and Ulan Ude. Later he was able to study months by horse. and was arrested in 1937, accused inRussiaasthatwas at the beginning since relations betweenTibet.Great for two years in Dharamsala and by Stalin's secret police of of the years of repression of religion. In the 19th century, this contact was Britain and Russia were delicate four months at Goman Collage in committing high treason, terrorist Among these students were hindered somewhat by political around this time because of the South India. and subversive activities and was Wangyal, Agwan Nyima, Lama circumstances. British force in Lhasa in 1904., Now the Abbot is teaching and put in prison in Ulan Ude, Buryatia Legden and Rhontrul Rinpoche. everything concerning the organising a programme for monks He died in the prison hospital of These monks studied at Goman construction of the Temple had to at Kuntsechoinei. He also hopes to Agwan Dorzhiev cardiacarrestonJanuary 29th, 1938. College which was connected to be approved, often personally by cooperate with teachers outside After the death of Agwan Dorzliiev where Agwan Tsar Nicholas II. Russia. They have invited teachers In the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Temple was transferred to tlie Dorzhiev had been a teacher. One of from Goman Collage and Kumbum 1834 to 1938, a particularly Soviet State and its furnishings to these students, Geshe Wangyal, important figure in the story of Oppression the Anti-Religious Museum on escaped from Tibet in 1951 and went monastery in Tibet and have also Russian Buddhism and the Nevsky Avenue. After that it was to Lidia and from there to Europe made connections with Geshe Kuntsechoinei Datsan in St. In 1918 Dorzhiev was arrested by used as a military radio and the USA where he served the Ngawang Thubden from the Petersburg was Lama Agwan the Red Army and sentenced to death communications base and jamming Kalmukian community in New Gelugpa Centre in Hamburg who Dorzhiev. Born in Buryatia and in Moscow but fortunately was able station until 1960 and later as a Jersey and founded the first Tibetan gave teachings for one week at the educated at the Tibetan Gelugpa to smuggle a note to his Committee laboratory for the Zoological Buddhist monastery in North Datsan. Monastery Drepung outside Lhasa, who were able to save his life. In continued on page 15

ISSUE 16 11 Shamanism in Buryatia - An Interview

who do important work. It depends performed using the shoulder blade Part 1 on the tribe or family. During Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche's recent travels in theof the sheep. After the animal has Rinpoche: I would like to know a countries of the ex-Soviet Union he met with severalbee n killed the shoulder blade is little about the Shamanistic system Question: Is Die spirit the same for people who had knowedge of their local forms of kepta longtime in the family because in Buryatia. For years I liave done these two kinds? divination can be performed several Shamanism. Norbu Rinpoche has, for some time, been research about the ancient Bon Answer: Not everybody has the times and information accumulates tradition and I have also studied capacity to pray, but it's the same. interested and done research on Shamanism both fromcontinuously a . different kinds of Shamanism in Shamans who have strong family scientific and a religious point of view, particularly theTh e Buryatian Shamans have a places such as Siberia. spirits can pray strongly. If people ancient form that was practised in Tibet. strong desire to organise a school In a teaching we have the principle havea serious illness theseShamans where the ancient methods of consideration of the individual and can heal them by fire. The following interview was made by Norbu Rinpoclxe anddivinatio n and healing can be the relationship of the individual to Fabio Andrico in Buryatia. The Shaman interviewed was revived. They have a very effective his dimension. For example, in a Question: What is the reason for Stepanova Nadezhda. Translation by Tatyana Naumenko.wa y of healing using animal dimension there are deities, gods sacrificing animals? Would the life sacrifice. Other interviews with Shamans will be publislied in the and spirits and different kinds of of an animal appease a spirit or manifestations and then there is the change a person's problem? What next edition of 'The Mirror'. Question: Are there other kinds of relationship between an individual is the principle? divination methods used ? and these beings. How do you Answer: It's like an or a Answer: They usually use a gypsy considerthis aspect in regard to your form of communication with local method with playing cards and other own tradition? spirits and deities. special methods and they use vision. Stepanova Nadezhda: Firstly, Today there was no sun, for instance, Shamanism has a very special Question: In the Shamanistic but I saw the sun above your head contact with the energy of fire, then tradition what kind of belief is there and there are many people who have with all nature and spirits: spirits of for after death and what kind of such capabilities. Bothof my friends the rivers, of mountains, lakes and problems can one liave after death? can use such methods; they pour an valleys. Shamanism has always Answer: The place where the soul amount of vodka or water into a existed in this land. Shamanism and or spirit goes is big, empty and black. vessel and look at its surface as a Buddhism live together. Buddhism People have different kind of souls: means of divination. is widely known and developed in children liave a rainbow-coloured Any object used by a person, even many regions now. At the moment soul and old people liave grey ones. his photograph, can be used for Shamanism is very developed in The souls can be very heavy. Wlien divination. For instance if a person Baikal and Irkutsk. people have problems I advise tliein is ill and in the hospital you tan look When I pray, I have a clear vision of to go to their place of birth and offer at his close relatives and see some the beings that I invoke and I ask prayers to tlie local deities asking kind of information. You can use them for power through fire to heal. for the ir protection because witliout any object belonging to a person fci- doing these tilings one can be prone information. You can know what his character is and what was the Question: Are there some specific to illness. Nowadays people have cause of his illness, for instance. In manifestations of power, of fire? forgotten tliis old tradition and there tliat way you can find a way of Answer: I want to explain to you is little communication between healing and you can learn to what about yesterday's vision then people and these spirits. There are god you should pray. perhaps you can understand. also big problems with ecology. In the Shamanistic tradition each When you said 'Om' yesterday I Many people come to me who have organ is controlled by a concrete saw yellow and white arrows. First have problems with Nagas whom deity and if you pray to that deity the colour was white and then blue. they have provoked. Some time ago you can receive help if it is at the Then it disappeared into your hand a young man came to me who liad cut down a tree on a mountain. This beguining of the illness. But if the and it seemed that you became fire. A. Namdak, D. Dililao, S. Nadezhda from Buryatia illness has progressed substantially I saw yellow energy like light rays tree had been growing m an old sacred place which had been you can see how many days the em anating from you to all the people the airport I saw four eyes on your people. It is a perfumed wood like forgotten. When he cut this tree the person will live. who became yellow. forehead. pine and it serves as incense. Until now I have not been to places local deities entered him. People don't remember the traditional where teachings were given but Rinpoche: Tliat's interesting with Question: Is it possible to have an Question: Are there some deities any more and tliis is not good yesterday we all had a kind of yellow my practice of yantig because in initiation into Shamanism without considerations of the symbols of because the deities can make energy and all the people were very yantig we have this kind of the sacrifice of animals? elements such as deities ? problems for people. clear. All the timeyou were teaching visualisation. Answer: No it's impossible. Answer: I can only speak about my you were shining. Today you have a own experience because every different aspect. Question: Do you have to make a Shaman has his own method. For For Shamans, the gods have di fferent There is no written tradition about the sacrifice in order to cure people? instance if some person comes to colours and different Shamans have Answer: If people have a very me, with whom the water gods are different colours. I can see different Shamanistic tradition, they keep everything serious il lness, it's necessary to have angry, I may see above his head a thoughts and these thoughts liave in their heart. There is an oral tradition and a sacrifice in order for them to lake, for example. If this person different colours. This is the aura. recover. doesn't make offerings to the gods then they have supreme guidance. of his tribe then I see that the cup is Question: Perhaps different Question: In Tibet if you had turned upside down and its colour is Shamans have different colours sonietliing important to cure, then a dark grey or even black. But if that because these colours have d iff erent S. Nadezhda: I was very surprised. ' sacrifice was necessary but if it person worships his tribal gods, their Question: Is there some explanation functions? wasn't very important you could do cup is full and is a golden colour. of the continuation of the spirit in Answer: Every Shamanist tribe has Question: Do the Shamans here witliout iL But if some other gods are angry at some kind of paradise or happy a special god. When I had my perforai soiiieparticularritualssuch Answer: Now we use a form of him I see images of deities and the dimension? initiation, I slew three animals for as dances? extra sense heal ing which works not direction from which the illnesses Answer: When a Shaman dies they sacrifice: two sheep and a goat Answer: There is no longer a strong only on the physical level but also came. In this case I will advise the don't bury him. If he has done his because initiation is through the tradition of dancing but today there on the spirit level. person to do some concrete ritual work well he goes to paradise. In offering and sacrifice of animals. are special rituals that involve and then return to see what has some places they bum the Shaman. prayers, movement and dancing Shamans do not have a particular Question: Are there any special happened after that ritual. If the In some places in the past they built together. Instruments are used during form of prayer and each Shaman teclmiques for divination? gods have accepted the offering the a place in a tree and put the Shaman the ceremonies such as a ritual knife aura around the person changes and uses his or her personal prayers. Answer: Divination with the bones inside but this is not done today. and a bell like the bell used in of animals is used quite widely in the illness that has effected the Buddhist ritual. During ceremonies person changes its colour. But if the Question: ButdodifferentSliamans Buryatia but unfortunately there are Rinpoche: This means something I use a special stick in my hand that gods haven't accepted the offering I believe in the same principle? few people who maintain such secret like integrating origin. I had a is made from a particular tree. advise the person to look for some Answer: There are two different knowledge. To perform such a conversation with an American Witliout tliis stick I am not a Shaman. other Shaman whose ritual offering kinds of Shamans - the first who do divination an animal should be kept Indian and they liave tliis same idea. This stick is burned in the fire and is may be accepted. only family work, for people who for some time in the family before it S. Nadezhda: When I met you at used for purification of houses and live close by, and secondly, those is sacrificed. The divination is continued on page 14

ISSUE 16 12 Patrul Rinpoche's Advice for Abu Shri

You sit on a full moon cushion of white light You wouldn't feel satisfied. In the full lotus bloom of youth. Patrul Rinpoche, dPal-sprul Rinpoche (b. 1808) an incarnation of Santideva, was It's a waste to write books - Master, sole deity. a remarkable paragon of action. An erudite scholar, he was highly Unless you get paid for it - Think of me, Vajrasattva, respected by all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Displaying a non-sectarian So forget it ! You who remain unmoved by the manifest approach to the Buddhadharma, he became a leader in the nineteenth century Today, they're happy as clams - display cultural renaissance (Ris-med movement). His root guru was Tomorrow, they're furious. That is , bliss and emptiness. 'Jigs-nied-rgyal-ba'i-myu-gu, a chief disciple of 'Jigs-med-gling-pa. Of his With all their black moods and white moods, Bad-deeds Abu Shri! numerous works, the Kun-bzang-bla-ma'i-zhal- is an important introduction These people will never be satisfied. to the general subject of Vajrayana and a summary of the rDzogs-chen sNying-thig Or even if they're nice enough. You who are completely distracted, They won't come through when you really Obscured, and for so long teachings. dPal-sprul Rinpoche was the unique possessor of the Oral- explanation need them, Beguiled and entranced, lineage of the sNying-thig, and especially the Ye-shes bla-ma. Written by Disappointing you even more. Fooled by delusion: listen ! 'Jigs-med-gling-pa, it is a summary of Klong-chen-pa's teachings, the essence of All this fawning attentiveness, wearing a Keep this in mind ! the sNying-thig. dPal-sprul Rinpoche was also the holder of the precious Pleasing, praising face - forget about it ! Oral-transmission lineage of the rTsa-rlung. Right now, when you're Worldly and religious work Under the spell of mistaken perception Is the province of gentlemen. You have to watch out ! Abu, my boy - that's not for you, friend. Don't get carried away by this fake and empty As for awareness, The more you nurture and cherish him, life, Your intention is focused, strong and fixed - The more distant he grows. Haven't you noticed? Your own mind spinning round Like a trident stuck in the ground ! These dear friends An old bull, once you've borrowed him, About doing a lot of useless things - Your concentration seems unmoving Who show such smiling faces to begin with - Has just one desire - to go back to sleep. It's a waste ! Give it up ! Because it's tethered ! Get rid of them ! So you just sleep, eat, piss, shit - That's what your "view" is like ! Forget it ! There's nothing else you've got to do ! Thinking about the hundred things to Her smile seems so full of joy - Don't do anything else: accomplish Giving lectures sounds nice enough - But who knows if that's really the case? It's none of your business ! With not enough time to do them But it doesn't benefit mind. One tune, it's pure pleasure, You just do what you have to; pipe down, and Just weighs down one's mind. So keen and so sharp. Then it's nine montlis of mental paia sleep. Completely distracted The patii of logical reasoning - It might be fine for a month. By all the work that never comes to an end, But that's delusion, good-for-nothing But sooner or later, there's trouble: In the triple universe, Spreading out like ripples in water. goat-shit. People teasing; your mind entangled - When you're lower than your company, Don't make such a fool of yourself ! Keep The oral instructions seem so very profound - Your lady friend - get rid of her ! You should take the low seat But you don't put them into practice. quiet ! This endless talking, talking - Should you happen to be superior, Looking over those books that just distract Don't get arrogant. Listening - you've heard hundreds of It's just attachment and aversion - your mind Since you're better off on your own, teachings. Good-for-notlting goat-shit. And make your eyes sore - forget about it ! You don't need lots of friends. But you haven't grasped even one of them, It seems marvellous and entertaining, When you don't have any worldly or religious So what's the point? You beat your little drum - ting, ting - But you 're just spreading around the errors of duties, Reflecting - even though you've listened. Just because your audience thinks it's nice to others. Don't keep hankering after them. If you can't remember the teachings when hear ! Your audience seems to be listening politely, you need them, Though you offer up your own flesh and your But then they grow embarrassed. If you let go of everything - There isn't any point ! blood. Useless conversation that just makes you Everything, everything - Meditation - when your practice isn't curing You still haven't stopped Iwlding tliein dear. tliirsty - That's the real point ! The obscuring states of m ind - forget about it! You just make your little cymbals go cling, Forget about it ! cling - Giving teaching on meditation You've calculated just how many mantras Without having any real purpose in mind. This advice was written by the yogin Trime you've done - Without yourself liaving All these pretentious items Lodro to harmonize and take the measure of But you aren't accomplishing the kyenni Gained experience in practice, That seem so fuie and attractive - his own . This advice to Abu Shri visualization ! Is like reciting a dance-manual out loud Get rid of them ! is like my own heart; it should be put into You get the form of the deity nice and clear - And thinking that's dancing. practice, even though there is nothing to But you don't put an end to subject and Right now, they're all studying so very hard, People may be listening to you with devotion. practice. Give up all sorts of doing, that's the object! But in tlie end, they won't keep it up. But it just isn't the real tiling. meaning. Even if you can't practice the You tame dons and spirits just as they appear Today, they seem to get the idea, Sooner or later, wlien your own actions Dharma, don't get angry. May it be virtuous. But your own mind stream isn't tamed ! But later on, there's not a trace lefL Contradict the teachings, you'll be ashamed. Your four fine sessions of sadhana practice. Even if one of them does learn a little. Just mouthing the words, So meticulously arranged - He never applies his learning to himself ! Giving Dhanna explanations that sound so Forget about them ! These students who look so elegant and eloquent - Following the kind explanations of important - Forget about it ! Rigdzin Dor je, this translation made by When you're in a good mood, Get rid of them ! Lodro Garma was completed near the Your practice seems to have lots of clarity - When you don't have a book, you want it; Boudhnath stupa in the eleventh Tibetan But you just can't relax into it ! This year, he really cares about you. When you have it, you don't month of the Iron Horse year. Sarva When you're depressed, Next year, it's not like that. The number of pages seems small enough. Mangalam. Your practice stays hung up in one place - At first, he seems modest. But it's a bit hard to find time to copy them all. Even i f y ou wtote d own al 1 the books on earth. There's no brilliance to it ! Then lie grows exalted and pompous.

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ISSUE 16 13 Traditional Bon Medicine by Doctor Pasang Yontin

In brief all diseases can be related to crown chakra. The second wind qualities while the energies of bile transforms into light or radiance of calendar, the energy is mainly in the problems of wind, bile, phlegm and which we call geng-du is an upward and plilegm have seven qualities. If tlie body which resides in the heart toes, in the feet, but it governs all blood. We should also bear in mind wind which functions in the throat tlie energies of these humours are Tliis radiance is not only related to parts of the body. For this reason, that there are two very precise chakra. That wind which we call tlie increased, decreased or disturbed the physical body but also gives the eighth, fifteenth, twenty-fourth classifications of diseases related to pervasive wind resides in the heart through diet, behaviour or emotional radiance outside the body.Thisbody and thirtieth days of the lunar cold and heat. and functions in all parts of the body. factors, this can create w ind, phlegm light or radiance associated with calendar are very important for The root of all disease is ignorance The fourth wind is a fire-like wind or bile disorders. the chakra system of the subtle body Dharma practitioners. and from ignorance arises which functions in tlie stomach, The three humours are not of gross combine to produce other energies. These energies flow in the channels. attachment, hatred and mental intestines and the colon, and helps substance, but can be considered as This system of light is called la Tsa means channel. rLung means obscuration. From attachment todigest and distinguish tlie essence tlie energy of the inner body. These which means subtle body or supre­ subtle wind. Tro means heat Tigle manifest wind disorders, from of food and mix it with tlie blood. It energies are always decreasing me body. It is a Bon word. This la is means essence drop. hatredbiledisordersand from mental functions in the navel chakra, which tlirough our activities and to com­ never separate from the person. If The last subtle energy which is obscuration phlegm disorders. We is also called the manifestation pensate this decrease we must eat there are any disturbances to the la produced by the elements is have three mental poisons. When a chakra. Then there is tlie downward and drink. or subtle body, after one or two consciousness. These four parts are being is conceived in the mother's wind which resides in the lower part always flowing in the channels in womb, the union of the paternal of the abdom en and which regu lates the form of letters and these letters sperm and the maternal ovum in the menstruation, sperm, stools and are the principle energy of the uterus activates impulses that come urine. It functions in tlie "secret" elements. So Dharma practitioners, from these three humours related to chakra at tlie perineum. especially tantric practitioners and the three passions which determine These five winds create tlie five yogis, make use of this when through three channels in the chakras which are considered to be practising the four paths of body. On the leve lof consciousness, very important in the Tibetan joyfulness in which the energy there are five very subtle elements medical system. These five chakras comes down through the chakras which giverise to the gross elements are tlie main centres of energy and from the head chakra, to the throat, of the body. So from the semen and tlie five main organs correspond to heart and navel chakras and then the ovum arises the gross body. these five chakras. This is called tlie rises again. subtle body. The Elements Breath Bile The energy of the earth element The first subtle energy is that which produces flesh, bone, organs and Now we will consider tlie five circulates within the body. The the olfactory sense. The energy of branches of tlie energy of Hie bile. second energy is subtle wind the element of water produces blood, The first is tlie digestive bile which breathing, the life-sustaining wind. the lympathic system and fluid, the resides in the duodenum and helps A young healthy person, who is not tongue, saliva and the sense of taste. digestion and corresponds to tlie exercising or ill, usually breathes The element of fire produces navel chakra. Thecolour-giving bile 21,600 times each day. biological metabolic heat and (the resides in tlie liver. Its activity is to From a Western point of view, when complexion of) the body constit­ give colour to tlie constituents of tlie we consider breathing we say that uents, the eyes, sight and tears. The body and it corresponds to tlie heart we inhale oxygen. However, in energy of wind or air produces chakra. Tlie desire-producing bile tantric teachings we breathe solar breathing, tactile sensations and the resides in tlie heart and activates energy in the right nostril and lunar ears. The element of space gives desires. The fourth kind of bile energy in the left nostril while we rise to all the internal space, tlie resides in tlie eyes and lielps to Let us take tlie example of eating months, symptoms of shyness, breath neutral or life-sustaining organs, the organs of the senses, the discern different colours and classify some rice. The rice is digested in tlie fearfulness and anxiety may energy in both. For every thirty-three channels and the sense of hearing. vision. It corresponds to tlie head stomach and tlie nutritional essence manifest. This is a problem which breaths, we complete a Each one of these elements is chakra. The fifth type resides in tlie of tlie rice assim ilates w itli tlie blood cannot be cured by medicine, at the life-sustaining breath. That means associated with one of the principal skin and is considered a colour stream. This nutrition can be divided most medicine will only give that with each breath, we are organs. The heart is related to the producing bile. It controls tlie into two parts. The purest form temporary relief. In such a case, an spending a tiny bit of the energy of the element of space, the complexion. increases the energy of tlie three open-minded doctor will refer the life-sustaining breath. In this way, lungs to the energy of the element of humours. The gross material patient to a high lama. we consume our life breathing at the wind, the spleen to the energy of the The Phlegm produces blood, flesh and bone rate of 675 life-sustaining breaths in element of earth, the kidney to tlie tissue, fat, etc. twenty-four hours. So when we have energy of the element of water and Energy Then there are five classifications When rice is cooked, tlie vapour consumed the life-sustaining breath the liver to the energy of the element for tlie phlegm. The first type is tlie rises. Tliis vapour can be considered Together the subtle body and the that resides in the central channel, of fire. The stomach, the bladder, sustaining plilegm which resides in as tlie subtle part of nutrition which gross body produce three energies. we die. the gall bladder, and the small and tlie thyroid gland and helps to feeds tlie three humours. What The first energy is that which Then we have the third kind of subtle large intestines are considered to be strengthen tlie other four types of remains in tlie pot, the rice, which is circulates in tlie body. This energy energy which is also called la which the waste of the five elements. phlegm. Tlie second type resides in tlie more gross material feeds tlie circulates in the form of Sanskrit flows from the ring finger to the Regarding the relationship which the upper part of the stomach, seven constituents of the body. letters. It is not that the energy is heart. This is usually called the gate exists between the various organs - produces mucus and sali va and helps There are six stages in digestion. composed of letters, but that tlie of the spirit and is considered the the gall bladder is related to the digestion. Then there is tlie taste The first is ui tlie stomach, then the letters represent the elements. The point of integration between the liver, the stomach to the spleen, the dist inguisliing plilegm wliichresides metabolic processing into the blood flow of energy in men and women is gross body and the subtle body. small intestine to the heart, the colon in the tongue and discerns taste. Tlie stream, then assimilation into flesh, opposite. Psychiatric problem sm ay arise from to the lungs and the bladder to the fourth type is tlie satisfaction phlegm bone, bone marrow and fat Tlie last According to the Tibetan calendar, kidneys. The seminal vesicle for this channel. which resides in tlie brain and which part of tliis process involves semen on the first day of the new moon, the men and the ovum for women are allows tlie person to feel satisfaction for men and menstruation for energy of men resides in the right considered tobe the storeroom of all The Channels or disatisfaction. The fifth plilegm women. Tliis can be divided into foot and gradually starts to move up the elements. So these five vital resides in all tlie joints which may two parts. For women, tlie purest in tlie body day by day until, by the organs are the centres oftheenergies All these three energies are related be tense or loose. Problems with tliis part is transformed into honnones fifteenth and sixteenth days after of the elements in the body. to the three main channels which phlegm may cause arthritis. and breast milk while tlie gross part the new moon, the energy governs can be divided into subtle channels Tlie three energies of the wind, tlie is excreted tlirough menstruation. al 1 parts of tlie body, resid ing ma inly and gross body channels. The Winds bile and tlie plilegm should always For men, the purest part is in the head chakra. So for the first When we talk about tantric be balanced. If there is a disturbance transformed into honnones and tlie fifteen days after the new moon, the practitioners we talk about three How has this gross body been through diet or behaviour creating gross part excreted in the semen. energy of tlie moon rises in the body imaginary channels. The neutral produced? There is the subtle wind an unbalance among these three for men while the solar energy is channel is related to the nervous which is produced by subtle energies, tliis is considered ill-health. Subtle Body decreasing. After the fifteenth, the system. The left channel called ida consciousness. The first to arise is Bile is represented by tlie energy of energy moves to tlie left and tlie is related to the endrocrine and the sun in the body, plilegm by tlie the life-sustaining wind. Tliis The honnones can be considered to lunar energy starts to decrease while lympliatic system and the cerebral moon energy and wind is considered life-sustaining wind has a function consist of two parts. Tlie purest or tlie solar energy is rising. On tlie fluid. neutral. Wind energy has six in the brain that is related to tlie subtle part of the hormones first and thirtieth days of tlie lunar continued on page 15

ISSUE 16 14 Letters Letters Letters Letters Letters Being Born Naturally Buddhist House, St. Petersburg I would like to share a wonderful We are happy to inform you that the new religious community of Buddhists experience that I had recently. Since named Buddhist House has been founded in St Petersburg, Russia. of last October I have been teaching The PUTÌ»» founding Buddhist House is to unite the efforts of Yantra Yoga in Prato, a city near repTesaitatives of various schools and traditions m organizing the study of Florence, Italy, in a center where the fundamentals of the Buddha's TÇ8<èlfflg Mid ita consistent practice, with people study and practise various a special accent on the comprehension of the Buddhist Path in its entirety kinds of traditional medicine and with the support of the spiritual guidance of highly qualified teachers from therapy, where also Namkhai Norbu authentic Buddhist traditions. Rinpoche gave a conference on There is the need for these activities since there many people aspiring to Tibetan medicine and an follow the Buddhist Path who, }§ç£ jnjBfflgöon and guidance. On the other introduction to the Dzog-chen hand the traditional Buryatian form of Buddhism has beai essentially Teaching, last March. victimized during the time of Soviet totalitarianism. Insufficient standards One day I overheard that they were of education and the considerable lack of habits of sincere personal p*aetiçe planning to invite an Englishwoman, and years of mutual penetration of the totalitarian regime in Buddhist Janet Balaskas, to hold a seminar on structures have led to a lack of correct initiative, and serious responsibility 'Active Birth and Birth in Water'. in fte d^ejoprnent of Buddhism in pur propitious times. Almost as ajoke I offered to translate Now we have got a small room in the city where we study, meditate and have into Italian for her, since for many lessons in Tibetan language. Besides this, we have founded an editorial years I have been interested in natural (photo Jorg Kollnberger) department which prepares translations and publications of Buddhisjt childbirth, reading books and literature. We intend to develop our activities basing them on international studying yoga positions and would probably remove at least part as sounding the vowels, while principles and inviting people from different countries, and national iti es for breathing that may be useful in of the neurosis and violence that exhaling, above all the 'Aft') that joint studies and practice. childbirth. They accepted my offer, afflict human beings. help very much relaxing all tensions Our primary problem today is creating g means of support and acquiring so on the day of the seminar, June. Any work, any contribution that can in the woman's body and keep her minimal ownership $hiçh is necessary for the first steps of our work. 13th, I went early to the center, help to make those instants less present and aware of what is Our further plans include: because I wanted to hear her traumatic, more 'human' for the happening. Janet showed us many, 1. Inviting qualified teachers for permanent or long stays for instruction and speaking, to become familiar with woman and the child is, in my also with the help of slides. practical guidance. her accent and, as we started to opinion, very worthwhile and there As to the seeend subject, she showed 2. Founding a meditation retreat centre near §t. Petersburg, '' exchange information about each is a lot to learn, in this sense, from that immersion ina pool of lukewarm 3. Founding and developing a Buddhist Library, other, it was amazing to discover Yoga and traditional medicine and water - the first experiments of bjrth 4. Editing general and specific BuddftsJ literature in translations and in that she is also a student of Namkhai culture. Janet is also the author of in water having been made in Rus­ original languages, mainly using the corps of traditional texts and Norbu Rinpoche. We had just met many books on preparation for sia in the 60s - can also remove commentaries as well as authentic explanations given by modern teachers. there by chance, that day, in that childbirth, home birth and birth in much of the pain a woman goes 5. Development of connections and cooperation with Buddhist centres all place! water. The main topics of the semi­ through during labour and birth and over the world. Janet has been working for many nar, mainly attended by midwiv** can be voy 'natural' for the baby, 6. Meetings, conferences, seminars, practical courses with representatives, years in England, teaching women and a few doctors, were: 1) how since water is the environment he/ of different countries and traditions. yoga positions, breathing and upright positions can be very helpful she has teen used to up to the 7. Help and support to the Tibetan people. encouraging them to give birth in childbirth and 2) how and when it moment of birth. Babies seem to We would be very glad to receive your offers on cooperation as well as any naturally, avoiding, if possible, the is suitable to give birth in water. like it - as the slides showed .- and possible help. You can send your contributions to the following account: use of drugs and medical As to the first subject, she stressed there is no danger for them to dfpwn Postscheckamt Berlin West/P Sch A Bin W, BLZ 100 100 10 Kto. instruments. that any upright position used during if they are taken out within some ten Nr.449961-106,SabmeKoru^d,ArtonStr.20,W-1000BCTlin65, Germany. labour and birth makes it quicker It is proved now that the first instants seconds after the birth. They keep Phone (030) 461 36 52. and much easier for the woman and of life are very special and influence breathing through the umbilical The address of the Buddhist House Council is: Oleg Borisov, the child, because of the natural very strongly all the rest of an cord, and as long as it pulses there is impulse given by gravity and Vosstaniya 32-27,19lo 14 St. Petersburg, Russia. individual's life. This point is alsonohurry forthat to be cut, so the because of the possibility the worn M Phone (812) 272 07 27, 221 65 95, 227 10 55. stressed very much also in Tibetan baby can enjoy his/her first instant has to move more freely, following Medicine and Astrology. of life, Jook for the first time into her own instinct and intelligence, To be able to be bom more naturally his/her rm&m fflû father's eyes, in which creates more space in her The "Letters" section of The Mirror contains readers' and live the first instants of one's a relaxed way, Haste js Rof nge^ed, body and makes pain more bearable. personal ideas and impressions that do not life in a relaxed, peaceful, home-like nor are bright lights ani §tflfeng There are many yoga positions, way s • atmosphere would probably affect noises doesn't it sound attractive/ necessarily reflect the opinion of The Mirror and the ofbreathing and even chanting (such individuals inavery positive way. It Cristiana De Falco Pzog-chen Community.

all other gods and asks them to touch blood but must remain clean perm ission to make prayers for that tradition and then they have supre­ Shamanism protect him also. They consider the and pure. There is a special kind of person He asks the gods to help me guidance. tribal god the most important and person in each family who performs him to do what he needs to in order continued from page 11 make prayers to him first, They that kind of ritual in the tribe and to eliminate illness or something Question: Do they use practices for It happens that from some people offer him vodka and then a sheep, there is a very precise traditional else and after the prayers are finished contacting the local Guardians or the gods accept the offering and A male from seven years is technique for doing it and not every then all the people sit down to eat. strengthening the energy of the tribal from some people they will not. considered to be a man and one god person pan do it in the rightway . They gather the pieces from various protectors? One must be particularly careful in is responsible for his lifetime. When Then they separate the meat from parts from the animal and sprinkle it Answer: They pray to their tribal choosing a Shaman for there are the bey is seven the parents make a the hones and the meat is boiled on with vodka and then they pray to the god and every personhas.his guiding cases where the Shaman sincerely traditional and rich offering to a god one fire and then cut into pieces. gods. They make a totem from the spirit. Some people are not able wants to help but the gods will not using vodka and some milk products Another fire is made and then all the cloth and use it for prayers also. make contact with their guardian acceptofferingsfrom him. However and a sheep and when these offerings remains of the bones and the internal If they pray to a tribal god and if spirits but the Shaman may manage if there is some tribal lineage then are made then this god will guard organs are put there. Everthing that some people are absent then the to dp this. There are different levels the gods accept the offerings readily that male during his lifetime. can be cooked is cooked and pieces of food are sent to them but of Shamans and there are some even if the person doesn't do these There is a special ritual for killing everything that can't be cooked is they must taste, not eat in the real powerful Shamans in Buryatia. Not offerings very actively. the sheep and it is blessed with milk burnt on another fire. sense but taste. Everything is cooked every Shaman can really see but beginning with his head. And the All the people who gather begin to without salt their vision is very specific and not Question: Are there some beings sheep that is to be sacrificed never pray to the gods and they offer vodka, every Shaman sees the same things. like the deities who protect or disturb cries or trembles at that moment. boiled milk and tea with milk and Question: Is there some written And if you know what tribe the individuals? They make a cut with a special knife butter. They also pray in a very literature about the Shamanistic Shaman belongs to you can know Answer: If the person doesn't and then take the organs out of the precise order to their gods on behalf tradition, about how it is transmitted, his capabilities and so you can respect his tribal gods then all other sheep with the hands. There are some of the person who asked for the etc? choose which one you contact What gods can do him harm but if he prays special kind of people who do this, ceremony. The Shaman first asks Answer: No, they keep everything one Shaman can do another can't. to his tribal gods then he addresses not Shamans because they cannot the personal gods togive the Shaman in their heart. There is an oral They are very specialised.

ISSUE 16 15 Giving value condition, tlie whole universe. There diseases are called diseases of the Integration is no limitation. But if you don't Kunteschoinei humours which can be treated by continued front page 2 There is a saying of Milarepa, "All understand what integration means, continued from page 10 medicine. 101 are disorders Everything is fine and there is movements such as walking and then you only create a kind of The Kuntsechoinei Datsan is in very involving spirits and 101 are nothing which has no value and doing tilings, everything is yantra confusion, putting two different poor condition. It is in need of superficial miscellaneous disorders which you have to reject. Of course, yoga". If a practitioner, a yogi, is in things together and creating a restoration and repair. At present easily treated by following proper if you have nothing to reject, then the principle of yoga, or knowledge, mixture or transforming them tlie Datsan still belongs to the diet and behavioural patterns. you have nothing to accept. or understand ing, that means that he considering tliis to be integration. government and is only leased to Everything is fine. You can can integrate everything in his This is not the real meaning of the monks. There are meagre Treatment understand that everything is fine normal condition. Of course, integration. It means you are facilities for the monks who live when you really get into the state of sometimes we need a quiet place for changing things or creating tliere, both in living facilities and As for treatment of diseases, there integration. a short time such as a week or a problems. books. are four main possibilities - through In Tibetan we say ying-rig yermed month, or even tliree months in order For example, if you are learning a If anyone wishes to support this behaviour, diet, medicine and (bying rig dbyer med). Ying means to do practices like rushen method, it lias its principle so you and community finally, as a last resort, surgery. For . Dhatu means the real ( ru-shan )jhine ( zhi-gnas), semdzin. must learn and use that metliod in a they would be pleased to receive minor problems, a strong medicine condition of all phenomena which (sems-'dzin) or zerna (gzer-lnga). pfecise way. If you change, Buddhist books in English, books should not be used. This is very is emptiness. A11 these are very importantpractices transform or modify tliat method, it of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and important. In order to diagnose a for experiencing with our emotions Dzog-chen books, an English- In the Dzog-chen teaching we say will no longer liave its function. If problem, a doctor uses three means: and understanding tlie difference Tibetan dictionary, typing paper and kadag (ka-dag). Kodak means pure you are using any kind of tantric interrogation, reading the pulse and between mind and the nature of paper for a laser printer (for from the very beginning, the pure method, you. must use tlie correct examining the urine. For the mind. Also to experience tlie state of publishing books), a fax machine or dimension of emptiness. Rig means form andcolourforthevisualization. interrogation there are 29 rigpa. They are important when you donations of money. instant presence. Rigpa. If you are Everything is a fixed symbol suice fundamental questions which a start the practice of Dzog-clien so As it is not easy to send things only in emptiness, that is only part the method was first transmitted and doctor asks a patient Reading the that you can enter into tlie real nature through the post or the banking of your experience, but it is not tlie you can never change even tlie pulseisaveryvastsubjecttodiscuss. of the teaching. Or if someone lias system at present, donations should state of rigpa. Being in the state of smallest part of tliat. If you change We have to know the seasonal pulses, already had experience of these tlien be sent directly with a traveller to instant presence in emptiness, tliat sometliing at tliis point, it doesn't the natural pulses and the general they can start to realize them. But St. Petersburg to the following is the state of rigpa. But then you mean tliat you are integrating. pulses. After general pulsation we this doesn't mean that tlie principle address: discover, while you are in a state of Some people say that they are have to read the pulse for specific of the practice is only finding refuge instant presence, that it is non-dual. Westerners and tliat they use five Kuntsechoinei Datsan • diseases and specific problems of somewhere and escaping from tlie You cannot distinguish or separate angels instead of tlie five Dhyani St. Petersburg Kalachakra Temple the organs. The urine test is unlike ordinary world. The principle is to emptiness from instant presence. Buddhas. They consider tliat they 91, Primorsky Prospekt the one used in the West. The urine learn to integrate and to give value This is called yermed, non-dual. are integrating because tliis is We­ 197228 St. Petersburg is checked for smell, sediment, scum, to every tiling which is related to our Ying-rig yermed, non-dual, the sta­ stern knowledge or culture. But tliis Russian Federation. colour, and change of colour when nonnal condition. te of ying and rigpa. When we have isn't so. They are changing a tantric Tel.: (812)239-03^1. the temperature changes. Then there that knowledge and enter into it, metliod and if you cliange tliis then is a facial diagnosis based on the then we say ying-rig dre (bying rig Daily life there is no transmission. These examination of the eyes, tpngue, 'dresj.Dre is a verb and it means to people are only inventing in an body temperature and skin. intellectual way .Tliat is not teacliing. There are 2200 different herbs that integrate. In this case it means tlie So if you are really a good Teaching has always had its Bon Medicine can be used in the preparation of dimension of emptiness is integrated practitioner of Dzog-chen, it is not transmission since the very medicines. In general 400 of these in the state oí rigpa. Or the state of necessary that y ou mani fest that y ou continued from page 13 beginning wliich must be continued herbs are used more frequently. rigpa is integrated in emptiness. So reject or accept or cliange something. The riglit channel is called píngala in a pure way. Integrating means Among the ingredients we use it is non-dual. Today tliere are many people who and is related to the circulatory being in tliat true sense, hi Uiat case, precious stones, semi-precious have tliis kind of attitude. They are system. The right channel is red in if you want to use live angels, you stones, different metals such as gold, trying to show soineüuiig. But the colour, tlie left channel is white and As it is can use five Cliristian angels but in silver, bronze and brass, plant principle of tlie leaching is not for the central channel is blue. The three a Cliristian practice. It doesn't mean material such as roots, leaves, bark, In the same way we can intégrate showing something or making an channels give rise to our three mental you can't use Cliristian practice in flowers and sometimes we use our behaviour, our relative exhibition but automatically poisons. When we calm our senses Dzog-chen. Tliere are no limitations. animal products. The medicine is condition, everything. manifesting your realization tlirough tl irou gli practice, and when we reach But then you must use these symbols prepared in the form of decoctions, In the Dzog-chen teaching, if you your behaviour, your daily life. For , then we obtain the form of as they are taught in tlie Cliristian pills, or powdered medicine to add are in any kind of place and at that example, if you are a good tlie tliree Buddhas. So these three tradition without changing or to wine or other liquids. External moment, you are in a state oí rigpa practitioner, then you automatically channels correspond to the three transforming. Tins is integration. therapy consists of massage , then that is your place, your sacred manifest that you have less tensions Buddlias - Avalokitesvara is white, You can integrate every tiling, but in ointment for inflammation, or holy place. In general people because you have tlie capacity to related to tlie left channel, Manjusri tlie correct way, maintaining tlie blood-letting, moxabustion and want to go to a holy place such as a integrate. If you have some is orange and related to the right principle of knowledge and hydrotherapy and other minor forms temple to do practice. But when you problems, you don't feel that they channel, and Vajrapani is blue and integration from tlie very begiiuiing. of therapy. are in instant presence, then are really heavy because you do not is tlie neutral energy. However, have the consideration that they are until we are enlightened, the three wherever you are becomes a holy Tibetan medicine can be considered something very important. There is channels produce the three mental place, your temple. Rigpa as a synthesis of various medical always tlie possibility to integrate. poisons. If we pacify the five mental In the Dzog-chen upadesa, the word systems. The medical system which There is a saying in a taut ra of tlie poisons, they will be transfonned chog-shag(cog-bzhag) is explained. If you understand integration in tliat is currently in use is a combination upadesa, "Fire caiuiot bum fire, and into the five Dhyana Buddha Chog-shag means remaining in tlie way then it has sense and tliere is of the medical teachings of the tlie air elan ent cai mot destroy i tsel f'. families. state as it is. That means that if you also something for you to do with Buddha, the traditional Bonmedical This means that if you are in your are lying down on your bed and you tlie real meaning of Litis word; and So iiiTibetanmedicine, the physical system and other medical systems real nature, there is no problem. are in instant presence, in the state you can understand tliat integration body, tlie mind, tlie three humours which have been integrated into it. When you are ui tliat integration, of rigpa, that is fine. If you are in a is tlie state of conteníplalion. hi and tlie seven body constituents hi Tibet this is called Bod which then that is called realization. So temple with a wonderful atmos­ Dzog-chen when we aie in a stale of sltould be well balanced. Also the was originally "Bon" but gradually you must understand what is tlie real phere, sitting in a correct position, contemplation we say that we are in gross body and subtle body should changed through time. meanuig of integration tliat way. in the state of rigpa, then that is fine, a state of total integration or in a be balanced. Then we can say that a too. Or perhaps you are driving a car total ly re lax ed state. Tl lis m e ans ti ìat person is in good health. If tliere is A transcription of part of a two day through the confusion of a city, but Principle of integration when you are in a state of rigpa, this an unbalance between tlie gross body conference given by Doctor Pasang at that moment you are in a state of represents total integration. It" tliere and tlie subtle body, between the Yontin at Merigar on J une 13 th and contemplation, then that is fine. Many people have tlie idea tliat is not total integration in tliat stale, tliree humours and the seven body 14th, 1992. There is not much difference integration means mixing even if you are using the word constituents, that can create a between driving a car, lying on tlie sometliing. Some people want to " integration", you cannot ui lderstand problem. bed or being in a temple. It is all Doctor Pasang Yontin was integrate different methods and then what it means, hi tlie same way even Us ua 1 ly i 1 li less ar ises in re 1 ati onsh ìp kuntuzangpo. Principal at the Astromedical they make a kind of mixture. if you consider tliat you are relaxed, to diet and behaviour and also Institute of Dharamsala for So it not necessary to reject Somebody asked me if they could if you don't discover and find psychological problems. There are several years. At the moment something like the place you are in integrate some methods of teachings yourself in your real nature, even if eight brandies of disease. First there he runs a private clinic in and try to get to a more interesting that are not Dzog-chen with tlie you aie using tliis word, you are not are common diseases, pediatric place, or reject your consideration Dzog-chen teaching. I always say in a state of total relaxation. diseases, then diseases related to Aniritsar in the Punjab and is a of your worldly situation and take tliat if you know what tlie real gyneacology, psychiatry, toxi­ lecturer at the Centre of refuge in a nice quiet place or a meaning of integration is, you can This teaching was transcribed from cology, tumours, geriatrics and in Ladakh. monastery. This is not tlie principle. integrate everything, not only some a private recording made by rejuvenation being tlie eiglith and He was in Italy on the invitation The principle is being in your methods, Buddhist or other. It Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche for The last branch. There are 404 of the Kumpen Gancen Lama doesn't matter. But you can integra­ knowledge and being able to inte­ Mirror during his recent tour of classifications of disease of which Institute of Milan. grate. te everything in the relative Russia and Buryatia. 101 are karmic diseases. 101

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Tibetan date: Western date: (1698 - 1755), a great Dzog-chen master of the 7th Month, 10th day Sunday 6th September 1992 Nyingmapa school. It is therefore an excellent day to do This is the anniversary ot Jomo Menmo (1248-1283), a "A Kar Lama'i Naljyor", the Guruyoga with the White A. very tamous woman Terton, reincarnation ot Yeshes If you can do it in the morning, that is best. Then, if you Tsogyal. She was the consort of the great Terton Guru have the time, you can do a medium or long Tun later in Chowang. It is also a very special day of Guru the day, with an intense practice of Simhamuka. Padmasambhava. Therefore it is an ideal day to do a Ganapuja and Long-life practice associated with NEW MOON Padmasambhava, "Universal Wisdom Union". If you Tibetan date: Western date: have the opportunity it is beneficial to do a Ganapuja. 8th Month, 30th day Sunday 25th October 1992 This day is excellent for practising the "Purification of the FULL MOON Six Lokas". Otherwise you can do the medium or long Tibetan date: Western date: Tun. 7th Month, 15th day Friday 11th September 1992 This is the anniversary of Tsarchen Losal Gyatso and Tibetan date: Western date: Padma Karpo. a famous 17th century Drugpa Kargyupa 9th Month, 3rd day Wed. 28th October 1992 Master. Therefore it is an excellent day to practise "A Kar This is the anniversary of Rigzin Jigmed Lingpa (1729- Lama'i Naljyor", the Guruyoga with the White A early in 1798), a great master who was the author of the morning if possible, or later in the evening when you many books, among which is the Longchen Nyingthig, are free. It is also an excellent day for the Long - life which he wrote after having contact with Longchenpa practice of the Dakini Mandar ava through visions. Therefore, on this important day, you should try to do "A Kar Lamai Naljyor", the Guruyoga Tibetan date: Western date: with the White A. 7th Month, 25th day Monday 21st September 1992 This is a Dakini day and also the anniversary of Pagmo Tibetan date: Western date: Drugpa (1110-1170), the chief disciple of . Try 9th Month, 10th day Wed. 4th November 1992 by Elisa Cope II o to do a Ganapuja together with your Vajra sisters and This is Guru Padmasambhava day and also the An important event took place m Milan, Italy from July 4th to 7th directed brothers. If there are no other practitioners nearby, you anniversary of Terton Tsogyal, aprevious reincarnation can do a medium Tun on your own. In either case, when of and discoverer of many Termas. It mainly to doctors and therapists but open to anyone interested in Tibetan you transform yourself into the Dakini Simhamuka, is therefore a good day to do the Long-life practice of medicine as well. The Tibetan Medicine Conference was organized by the recite her heart as much as possible and then do Guru Padmasambhava "Universal Wisdom Union", KumpenLama Gancen Institute recently founded in Milan for the diffusion an intensive practice of Ekajati. which is included in the medium or long Tun. You can do and preservation of the ancient Tibetan medical tradition by the well-known this in the usual way or, if you have the possibility, you healer and master Lama Gancen Rinpoche. NEW MOON can do a Ganapuja. Several doctors and researchers from all over Europe talked about their Tibetan date: Western date: approach to Tibetan medicine, pointing outhow greatly they were impressed 7th Month, 30th day Saturday 26th Sept. 1992 FULL MOON by this unique medical system which works on the three levels of body, This day is ideal for purification practices. Try to do either Tibetan date: Western date: speech and mind. All of them emphasized the importance of integrating the "Purification of the Six Lokas" or the "Namchos 9th Month, 15th day Tuesday 10th November 1992 Shitroi Naljyor", the Yoga of the Peaceful and Wrathful This is a good day to do the Long-life practice of Western medicine and other natural therapies with Tibetan medical Manifestations, either collectively or on your own. Amitayus, "Union of Primordial Essences", either knowledge. The main guests and speakers were two Tibetan doctors: Pasan collectively or personally according to your possibilités, Yontin and Loksang Shreste, known at Merigar tlirough their workshops on Tibetan date: Western date: early in the morning or in the evening. Bon medicine, hydrotherapy, purification and massage tecluiiques. 8th Month, 10th day Tuesday 6th October 1992 Each day during the conference they illustrated the various aspects of This is a very special day of Guru Padmasambhava, Tibetan date: Western date: Tibetan medicine: its history, main principles, diagnostcssystein, treatment therefore do a Ganapuja with the Guruyoga and the 9th Month, 22nd day Monday 16th November 1992 of diseases, food, behaviour, herbal pills, external therapies (massage, Long-life practice of Guru Padmasambhava "Universal This day is the great celebration of Buddha Shakyamuni's fomentation, moxabustion, blood-letting, golden needle tecluiique) and Wisdom Union" collectively. Otherwise you can do a descent to earth from the realms of the Divinities. It is spiritual healing. medium Tun on your own called "Lha bab dus chen", the Great Time of the Descent of the Divinities. It is an ideal day to do a During the course of the conference Lama Gancen Rinpoche gave tliree FULL MOON Ganapuja with your Vajra brothers and sisters. If there initiations: the Medicine Buddha, the Seven Buddhas of Medicine and the Tibetan date: Western date: are none nearby, you can do a short or medium Tun on Medicine Buddha manifesting with four . The ritual was mainly 8th Month, 15th day Sunday 11th October 1992 your own. directed to doctors and therapists to empower them in their practice. This is an important day to do the Long-life practice of The event also provided the opportunity of presenting the "Lama Gancen Amitayus. "Union of Primordial Essences". Itisbesttodo Tibetan date: Western date: World Peace Foundation", international friendship for the support of a Long-life practice early in the morning , but if you 9th Month, 25th day Thürs. 19th November 1992 Tibetan medicine, Vajrayana and self-healing, for cannot it is still good if you can do it later in the day or This is a Dakini day and the anniversary of the very world peace. The Foundation intends to increase and strengthen world-wide evening. important Dzogchen master Adzom D rugpa ( 1842-1924). medical support which enables valuable exchanges among the various He was a disciple of Jarnyang Kyentse Wangpo and a medical traditions with a view to encourage unification for the common aim Tibetan date. Western date: master of some of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche's masters, including Changchub Dorje and Ayu Kadro. He was also of a stronger development of international health. The Foundation will 8th Month, 25th day Wed. 21st October 1992 This is a Dakini day, and also the anniversary of two a previous incarnation of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. It probably start regular courses on Tibetan medicine. great Dzog-chen masters, Rigzin Kumaraja, who is therefore a very important day to practise "A Kar If you wish to know more, please contact: "Kumpen Lama Institute", Via transmitted the Dzog-chen teachings to Longchenpa Lamai Naljyor", the Guruyoga with the White A, according Marco Polo 13,20100 Milan, Italy. Tel: (2) 6597458. and to the third Karmapa, and ol Rigzin Tsewang Norbu to your possibilities. International Ecology Conference

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