Saraswati Publications Podcast

Saraswati Publications Podcast

Saraswati Bhawan is a non-profit Buddhist organization founded by Acharya Dawa Chhodak Rinpoche and Khandro Kunzang. We offer an ongoing selection of archival audio teachings by the late Lama Dawa Rinpoche, as well as regular podcasts by Khandro Kunzang.

Episodes

January 10, 2025 75 mins
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In the months before Lama Dawa's parinirvana, he wrote many poems and dohas about death and dying. Here he shares his writings with a private group and translates them for us. Recorded September, 2017.

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New Podcast Interview of Khandro Kunzang (February 2024) with Olivia Clementine, on ‘Love & Liberation’

In todays’s episode Khandro shares about:

From today’s conversation:

00:02:00 Spirits of the Six Realms

00:07:00 Offerings to non-human, non-physical beings

00:13:00 Receiving protection from Nagas

00:14:00 How spirits influence illness

00:23:00 How to know spirits are affecting your well-being or life

00:25:00 On the four fo...

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Part 1: Lama Dawa Rinpoche teaches from a special text by Karma Chagme Raga Asya, on visualizations to be practiced in conjunction with the Leu Dunma, the Seven Chapter Prayer of Guru Rinpoche. 

Recorded in Iowa, 2006.

Part 1: Covers the Background, History and Chapter 1 of the Leu Dunma.

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Part 2: Lama Dawa Rinpoche teaches from a special text by Karma Chagme Raga Asya, on visualizations to be practiced in conjunction with the Leu Dunma, the Seven Chapter Prayer of Guru Rinpoche. 

Recorded in Iowa, 2006.

Part 2: Covers the  Chapter 2 & 3 of the Leu Dunma.

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Part 3: Lama Dawa Rinpoche teaches from a special text by Karma Chagme Raga Asya, on visualizations to be practiced in conjunction with the Leu Dunma, the Seven Chapter Prayer of Guru Rinpoche. 

Recorded in Iowa, 2006.

Part 3: Covers the  Chapter 4 & 5 of the Leu Dunma.

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Part 4: Lama Dawa Rinpoche teaches from a special text by Karma Chagme Raga Asya, on visualizations to be practiced in conjunction with the Leu Dunma, the Seven Chapter Prayer of Guru Rinpoche. 

Recorded in Iowa, 2006.

Part 1: Covers Chapter 6 & 7 (Sampa Lhundrub).

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New Podcast Interview of Khandro Kunzang (July 2022) with Olivia Clementine, on ‘Love & Liberation’

In todays’s episode Khandro shares about:

  • Cultivating and training in relative siddhis to benefit others
  • Enacting the four activities
  • Signs and Tests for siddhis
  • Story with Garchen Rinpoche
  • Activities for subduing warfare and suffering
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Khandro Kunzang shares about the lineage of oral instruction, Ngagpas & Himalayan Yogas of Tsa lung and Tummo plus:

  • Khandro’s path to finding the buddhist dharma.
  • The karmic process and past lives.
  • Lama Dawa and his lineage and role as a Ngagpa.
  • Examples of how Ngagpas worked with elements.
  • Meeting Lama Dawa and what it was like to be married to him.
  • Finding relevance and language of old teachings
  • Meeting and personal connectio...
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In the months before Lama Dawa’s parinirvana, he wrote many poems and dohas about death and dying. Here he shares his writings with a private group and translates them for us. Recorded September, 2017.

 
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Part 1 of Dzogchen teachings given by Acharya Dawa Chhodak Rinpoche in Lansing, Iowa, in 2009; based on texts by Jamgon Kongrul and Dudjom Rinpoche.

In his intimate and engaging style, Rinpoche gives advice on practice, points out the nature of mind, and shares amazing stories of his life.

This is part 1 of a two-part teaching. Running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes.

 
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Part 2 of Dzogchen teachings given by Acharya Dawa Chhodak Rinpoche in Lansing, Iowa, in 2009; based on texts by Jamgon Kongrul and Dudjom Rinpoche.

In his intimate and engaging style, Rinpoche gives advice on practice, points out the nature of mind, and shares amazing stories of his life.

This is part 2 of a two-part teaching. Running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes.

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December 12, 2022 93 mins

Lama Dawa gives transmission, translation and teaching on a sacred Dzogchen text by Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, entitled, "Dzogchen Ngo-drod Dang-Ngag, Kalden Nying-kyi Norbu Marchen Lachang."

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December 12, 2022 119 mins

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives detailed teachings on each of the sections of the Dudjom Preliminary practices.

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December 12, 2022 124 mins
Lama Dawa teaches on the short Dudjom Ngondro practice. From a teaching given in Oxford, Iowa, 2000.  
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December 12, 2022 136 mins

Lama Dawa teaches on the short Dudjom Ngondro practice. From a teaching given in Oxford, Iowa, 2000.  

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December 12, 2022 68 mins

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives instruction on how to make offerings to the nagas from a text by Dudjom Lingpa. Part 1.

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December 12, 2022 79 mins

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives instruction on how to make offerings to the nagas from a text by Dudjom Lingpa. Part 2.

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December 12, 2022 79 mins

In this three-part podcast, Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives instruction on the prayer, “Calling the Lama From Afar,” written by HH Dudjom Rinpoche.

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December 12, 2022 79 mins

Lama Dawa Rinpoche concludes his teaching on the prayer, “Calling the Lama From Afar,” by Dudjom Rinpoche.

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