The Heart Wisdom series aims to make the teachings of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
available to a wider audience, by bringing his oral teachings to the
written page. This volume looks, in a simple way, at the fundamental
Buddhist view called Emptiness or Interdependence: how things really
exist. It includes a short teaching on Mahamudra and Dzogchen,
approaches that bring us to experience this view directly.
Like stars, mists and candle flames; Mirages, dew-drops and water bubbles;
Like dreams, lightning and clouds; In that way, I will view all composite phenomena.
Kagyu Wishing Prayer
Everybody knows that things change, nothing is permanent, but we
dont see how much everything is changing. Do things change once a year?
Or once a day? Once a minute or once a second? If you look deeply,
when is the time that things do not change? When you cannot find a time
that things do not change, then when is the time that things exist on
their own?
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was
trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such
as HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche. He took
his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and
Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as
Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years. His doctoral thesis was
on the Ecumenical Movement in Tibet.
Since 1990 he has been traveling and teaching Buddhism and meditation
at more than 50 Universities, Institutes and Buddhist Centres in
Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. He also participates in various
interfaith dialogues. He
authored several books on Buddhism as well as some childrens books both in Tibetan and European languages.
He founded Bodhicharya (www.bodhicharya.org ), an international
organization that coordinates the worldwide activities to preserve and
transmit Buddhist teachings, to promote inter-cultural dialogues and
educational & social projects. He also founded Rigul Trust which
supports his projects in his birthplace, Rigul, Tibet (
www.rigultrust.org ).
Rinpoche is the Official Representative of His Holiness the 17th
Karmapa for Europe and the Founder of Karmapa Foundation Europe (
www.karmapafoundation.eu).
