Pointing Out Instruction
Nagi Gompa, Early 1990s
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Recorded at Nagi Gompa, the hermitage above Kathmandu where Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche received students for the last decades of his life. This is the foundational document of the Mahamudra–Dzogchen unification that defined the Chokling Tersar lineage in the modern era — the lineage that, through Tulku Urgyen's sons (Chökyi Nyima, Tsoknyi, Mingyur, and Phakchok's father), has become arguably the single most influential Tibetan teaching transmission in the contemporary world. The pointing-out is direct, plain, and absolutely uncompromising. The voice is unmistakable.
The foundational direct-introduction teaching of the modern Chokling Tersar lineage. Source-document for the Nepal Vajrayana network anchored at Boudhanath.
The sangha responds.
More foundational talks from Vajrayana.
Mahamudra and Mahasandhi
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche — eldest son of Tulku Urgyen, abbot of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling at Boudhanath, and founder of the Rangjung Yeshe Institute — gives the doctrinal heart of his father's lineage in his own voice. The talks lay out the unification of Mahamudra (the New Translation school's culminating practice) and Mahasandhi/Dzogchen (the Old Translation school's), as transmitted through the Chokling Tersar. For students of the Boudhanath lineage and TPS's Lumbini-anchored Vajrayana audience, this is the central living transmission.
Essence Love, Well-Being, and Okayness
Festival of Faiths 2018
Tsoknyi Rinpoche — second son of Tulku Urgyen and one of the most accessible Vajrayana voices in the West — gives the signature teaching that has become the centerpiece of his Pundarika Foundation curriculum. 'Essence love' is the irreducible warmth at the base of every healthy mind; 'well-being' is its felt expression; 'okayness' is the ground from which contemplative practice can actually proceed. Without it, Tsoknyi argues, every advanced practice eventually collapses. With it, all of them flower.
Wandering Retreat
Expectations and Appreciation
Mingyur Rinpoche's first major public talk after re-emerging from the four-and-a-half-year wandering retreat that began in June 2011 and ended in late 2015. He had walked away from his monasteries with no ID, no money, almost died of food poisoning in a railway station, lived among sadhus and beggars. This is the talk where he comes back and tells what he learned. It is one of the most arresting personal testimonies any contemporary Tibetan master has given.