Many people want to become a Lama or give teachings but do not first engage in the proper practices to really make themselves a qualified teacher. First you need to enter an authentic lineage and receive many transmissions and empowerments from a teacher. Then you must finish your Ngondro and Yidam accumulations before becoming a Lama. Also with your teacher, you should become very close with him/her every day for about three to five years.
So if you were looking for a system, it would be to finish your Ngondro accumulations and then finish the Three Roots accumulations (Guru, Yidam, Dakini). His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in India used to give a Lama hat (basically saying you’re a Lama) to people who completed a solitary retreat for three years, three months, three days puja on the Three Roots. Everyone has different Three Roots sadhanas based on their lineage. Within the Longchen Nyingtik lineage, that is: Guru: Rigdzin Dupa, Yidam: Palchen Dupa, Dakini: Yumka Dechen Gyalmo.
So again, it is most important to put a lot of effort into your practice and study if you wanted to become a Lama. To receive many transmissions and empowerments, to study a lot and to do a lot of practice. After a lot of meditation and practice you will naturally become a Lama. It is not easy, it takes a lot of effort. To remember the story of Milarepa is important and how much suffering and trials he had to undergo before he could even receive the teachings. Also, once he received them how much diligence and effort he put into his practice.
So, to be really called a Lama, you should have received many transmissions from an authentic Lama and lineage, should have done solitary retreat and much practice, and should be very well studied. Then it is appropriate for yourself to give transmissions and to teach the Dharma.
Recently Lama Jigme Rinpoche, the Padma Rigdzin Ling Sangha, along with his sponsors Adam and Valerie, have been working to create a set of Buddhist Treasure Vases (ter) for the purpose of blessing Las Vegas and the world, as well as benefiting all sentient beings. These vases are part of an ancient tradition that Rinpoche has brought from his Masters in Tibet and were buried in the earth to help balance the five elements of the environment (earth, air, fire, water and space). We created and buried five vases to symbolize the healing of these five elements in the Las Vegas Valley in the month of June 2022.
The benefits of Treasure Vases are that the five elements will be restored, prosperity, wealth and good health will increase, sickness and suffering will be pacified, nature and the land will be healed, peace will be supported for the area and the world, famine will be prevented and healed, obstacles will be overcome, anger and warfare will be pacified, droughts will be alleviated with rainfall and also weather conditions in the area will be good in general. Anyone who sponsors a Treasure Vase will have their wishes be fulfilled.
In our modern time, we humans take so much from the Earth by digging and mining and we create a vast amount of pollutants that disturb the five elements. When the five elements are disturbed then there will be suffering for all beings. The Treasure Vase is very important for healing these elements in this era.
It took us a year to gather all the ingredients for the vases. Treasure Vases are created by bringing together many different precious substances together (dzi) and then consecrating them by much ritual and prayer. They can either go in the earth or remain in people’s homes. They truly bring harmony to the world and environment as well as heal people’s bodies and minds.
If you had an interest in sponsoring a Treasure Vase then please contact us. Please note it is very important to have devotion and pure perceptions in the Lama if you were interested in the Treasure Vases.
On January 24st, Lama Jigme Rinpoche heard the news that His Holiness the Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche had passed away into the absolute expanse. Dodrupchen Rinpoche is from the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and he is the main holder of the Longchen Nyingtik Lineage, which comes down from Longchen Rabjam and Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa.
Lama Jigme Rinpoche himself received many transmissions and empowerments from His Holiness, and as such, Rinpoche feels emotional and sad to see an important lama in his life pass into parinirvana.
On January 31st, Lama Rinpoche and a few of his students performed the Avalokiteshvara sadhana of Dukngal Rangdrol, the prayer of ‘Training in the Pure Realms of the Three Kāyas’, as well as prayers for his swift rebirth. They also lit butter lamps and made offerings.
On Monday, October 11th, 2021 at 1:30pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), Lama Jigme Rinpoche will be holding a Zoom session to give the transmission (lung) of Hayagriva.
If you wished to join the session, then please contact us:
Please only message if you wish to take this practice seriously and maintain it everyday.
If you have received the Longchen Nyingtik Ngondro from Lama Jigme Rinpoche before, then there is no requirement to donate for this.
If you are new, then there is a minimum offering dana of $25 for the transmission. If you wanted to donate more than that, then that is up to you and the kind of merit you wished to create. This dana is likened to an offering khata.
Recently Lama Jigme Rinpoche and the Temple have been working on moving to a more favorable location for our Dharma activities and practices. We have finished the moving now and we are still located in Henderson, Nevada, the United States.
It has been a week and work on the interior of the shrine room is now finished and we are happy to say we will continue our monthly Guru Tsok Offerings as well as our many Dharma activities for the Sangha and the community.
Lama Rinpoche was very pleased with the visit of his old students and friends Paul and Nancy Clemens after we finished the shrine room.
On July 1st, 2021, 2:30pm Pacific time, Lama Jigme Rinpoche will be giving a Avalokiteshvara and Sengdongma Initiation and Transmission (lung) via Zoom.
If you were interested in attending this session then please contact us.
“It is said that the twelve syllables of the Vajra Guru Mantra carry the entire blessing of the twelve types of teachings taught by Buddha, which are the essence of His Eighty-four Thousand Dharmas. Therefore to recite the Vajra Guru Mantra once is the equivalent to the blessing of reciting or practicing the whole teaching of the Buddha. The wisdom mind of Padmasambhava is manifested in the form of the mantra; these twelve syllables are actually the emanation of His wisdom mind, and they are endowed with His entire blessing. The Vajra Guru mantra is Padmasambhava in the form of sound. So when you invoke Him with the recitation of the twelve syllables, the blessing and merit you obtain is tremendous. In these difficult times, it is appropriate to take refuge in the Vajra Guru Mantra.”
Trulshik Rinpoche says:
“For the practice of approach it is generally said that one should recite the mantra of Guru Rinpoche 1,200,000 times. If we can accomplish these 1,200,000 recitations, it is said that we will receive the blessing of Guru Rinpoche. It is also said, “With ten million siddhis, you will reborn in a place of vidyadharas.” This means if you recite the Vajra Guru mantra ten million times, you will be reborn in a realm of vidyadharas. It is even said that if you recite the 1,200,000 accumulation seven times (8,400,000), you will become the same as Guru Rinpoche in this very life. By reciting the mantra ten million times (literally ‘one hundred times one hundred thousand times’) you will reach the stage from which you can never turn back. So the benefits of reciting the Vajra Guru mantra are truly inconceivable.”
If you wished to practice the Vajra Guru mantra then it is important to first either receive the initiation or transmission (lung) from a lineage master for this mantra.
If you wanted to receive this in way of video call or in-person from the Padma Rigdzin Ling Buddhist Temple, then please contact us.
In this world there are many different religions, many different deities, many different gods. In Buddhism there are many deities and gods. Tibetan Buddhism has four major schools, the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug. Lama Jigme Rinpoche himself comes from the Nyingma school and therefore knows about the Nyingma deities.
In the Nyingma system, the highest tantric practice is that of Kagye. Inside Kagye there are ten deities. Kagye means eight deities, inside the practice of Kagye these eight deities at times become one, equaling nine deities. There is also another deity that works as a servant that you can order to do things, this makes ten deities.
Kagye is different from lower tantric practices in that the Kagye deities can help us overcome negative emotions and reach enlightenment. Other practices like Yellow Dzambhala are meant for helping with things like food, clothing or wealth. Kagye is meant to help us reach total enlightenment. Out of the ten deities, there are two that most people use for an everyday main practice. Vajrakilaya (Dorje Phurba) is for all activities, and Hayagriva is for empowering yourself.
In today’s age, it is an degenerate time where the five poisons and negative emotions are very strong. So we need a deity like Hayagriva to empower ourselves. Also negative influences today are so strong as well, like the coronavirus. One example is that today’s modern China has so many problems with negative emotions, the result of this is that the coronavirus originated in China. All of our sickness comes from the influence of negative emotions, so we need such a practice as Hayagriva to overcome it.
We practice these Buddhist deities because they bring us to enlightenment. The way to practice is to do so while thinking on love, compassion, and wanting to benefit all sentient beings. We all need basic amenities to survive, we all need money, housing, food. All of these basic amenities will actually come naturally to you without any effort if you are practicing while focusing on compassion and you are thinking altruistically.
All of our problems originate from negative emotions and thinking selfishly. When you desire things like money, food, clothing, fame, etc., then you are just creating more problems and suffering for yourself.
Our body is naturally something like a machine, it makes more suffering, more problems when we are selfish. We always try to eat the best food and check if it has a good taste and a good smell before eating. In the end after eating it, it just turns into defecation, we don’t like the taste, we don’t like the smell. As we can see, there is really no point in focusing on material things when we know what they will turn into. It is better to keep your focus on a spiritual life.
People naturally like to talk about their best qualities in order to impress others, they don’t like to tell the truth. People like to hide their faults, in order to impress their ego. This is not the spiritual way, we have to practice to benefit others by focusing on compassion and love, and to let go of wanting good food, good clothes, fame and wealth.
When you practice Hayagriva, you should first have bodhicitta (compassion and love), this is so important from the depth of your heart. After having this feeling, then to do your practice with the intention of benefiting others and yourself. You should also think that the practice is helping the world, you are blessing your country and all other countries; China, Asia, Europe, etc., you are putting an end to all epidemics and diseases everywhere when you practice. We should not practice while thinking about material things like for name, fame, clothes, or wealth.
People need to have devotion and pure perception with the Lama before they receive a transmission or empowerment (lung). If they don’t want to see and treat the Lama like their own spiritual master, then they shouldn’t receive transmissions from him, it’s not good for them.
As it says in the text ‘Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand’: “Do not give teachings to those who have no devotion and pure perceptions.”
Rinpoche’s lineage is very pure, he first received transmissions in Tibet from his root masters Rigdzin Jigme and Aku Sherab. Also when Rinpoche came to Dharamsala, India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave Rinpoche the transmission and empowerment for Hayagriva. Also with the permission of His Holiness, Rinpoche built a monastery in Dharamsala. Afterwards Rinpoche practiced Hayagriva and many other rituals many times in Dharamsala.
Spoken by Lama Jigme Rinpoche, translated by Tenzin Wangden, transcribed by Jacob Ewers on July 18, 2020.
Vajrasattva is the Buddha of Purification, through his mantra we can alleviate our negative karma and begin purifying it to remove our obscurations.
The heart essence mantra of Buddha Vajrasattva is:
‘OM BADZAR SATO HUNG’
His full 100 Syllable Mantra is:
‘OM BADZAR SATO SA-MA-YA, MANU PA-LA-YA, BADZAR SA-TO TE-NO-PA TITHRA, DRI DHRO ME-BHA-WA, SU-TO KHAYO ME BHA-WA, SU-PO KHAYO ME-BHA-WA, A-NU RAKTO ME-BHA-WA, SARWA SIDDHI ME-PRA YA-TSHA, SARWA KARMA SU-TSA-ME, TSITTAM SHRE-YAM, KU-RU HUNG, HA HA HA HA HO, BHA-GA-WAN, SARWA TA-THA GA-TA BADZAR MAME MUNTSA BADZRI BHA-WA MA-HA SA-MA-YA SATO AH’
The benefits of reciting the 100 Syllable Mantra according to the text ‘Words of My Perfect Teacher’:
If you stay undistracted and do not mix your recitation with ordinary speech, to say the hundred syllable mantra one hundred and eight times without interruption will undoubtedly purify all your evil actions and obscurations, and all violations and breaches of vows and samayas. Such is Vajrasattva’s promise.
The Tantra of Immaculate Confession says:
The hundred syllable mantra is the quintessence of the mind of all the Sugatas. It purifies all violations, all breaches, all conceptual obscurations.
It is the supreme confession, and to recite it one hundred and eight times without interruption repairs all violations and breaches and will save one from tumbling into the three lower realms. The Buddhas of past, present and future will look on the yogi who recites it as a daily practice as their most excellent child, even in this very lifetime, and will watch over and protect him.
At his death he will undoubtedly become the finest of all the Buddhas’ heirs. Whatever violations and breaches of the root and branch samayas you may commit after setting out on the path of Secret Mantra Vajrayana, the daily repetition of the hundred syllable mantra twenty-one times every day while meditating on Vajrasattva constitutes what is called “the blessing of downfalls.” It will prevent the effects of those downfalls from developing or increasing. One hundred thousand recitations will completely purify all your downfalls.
According to The Essential Ornament:
To recite correctly twenty-one times The hundred syllable mantra, While clearly visualizing Vajrasattva Seated on a white lotus and moon, Constitutes the blessing of the downfalls, Which are thus kept from increasing. Thus the great siddhas have taught. So practise it always. If you recite it a hundred thousand times, You will become the very embodiment of utter purity.
If you wanted to practice this mantra, then it is important to receive the teachings, transmissions, or empowerments from a lineage master for this particular mantra.
If you wanted to receive these things in way of video call or in-person from Lama Jigme Rinpoche and the Padma Rigdzin Ling Buddhist Temple, then please contact us.