The Short Vajradhara Prayer: A Teaching on the Lineage and Sustaining One's Nature Ogyen Trinley Dorje Karmapa
The Short Vajradhara Prayer: A Teaching on the Lineage and Sustaining One's Nature Ogyen Trinley Dorje Karmapa The Dorje Chang Tungma is probably the most well-known of the Kagyu prayers,…
Specifikacia The Short Vajradhara Prayer: A Teaching on the Lineage and Sustaining One's Nature Ogyen Trinley Dorje Karmapa
The Short Vajradhara Prayer: A Teaching on the Lineage and Sustaining One's Nature Ogyen Trinley Dorje Karmapa
The Dorje Chang Tungma is probably the most well-known of the Kagyu prayers, traditionally recited before teaching sessions and often recited by practitioners as part of their daily practice. It is all too easy to recite the prayer mindlessly, like a parrot, without focusing on the words or reflecting on the meaning of what we are saying. Nearly everyone knows this prayer by heart, but such familiarity can be dangerous.
In so many ways, it is much more than an ordinary prayer. By studying it, we should gain deeper understanding and be able to appreciate its profundity more fully. It includes all the important stages of the training in mahamudra: revulsion at samsara, renunciation, devotion to the guru, undistracted meditation, and so forth.
As such, it is like a pith instruction. In the beginning, the prayer recalls all the lineage masters of the Kagyu. When we talk about lineage, we