སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཁྲི་རབས་༧༠པ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གྲགས་མཆོག་གི་ཞབས་བརྟན་བཞུགས་སོ། 𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐲𝐚𝐛𝐣𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐞 𝐊𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐩𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐤𝐮 𝐉𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐤. ཨོཾ་སྭསྟི། Om svasti. རྒྱལ་ཀུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཆུ་གཏེར་ལས་བལྟམས་པའི། Born from the oceanic treasury of the compassion of all the Victorious Ones, གསང་གསུམ་མཛད་འཕྲིན་སྟོན་ཟླའི་འོད་སྟོང་གིས། With the thousand radiant beams of the moon like enlightened activities of the three secrets, ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཀུ་མུཏ་འཛུམ་རྒྱ་འགྲོལ་མཛད་པ། Who causes the kumuda lotuses of the Buddha’s teachings to open and fully blossom, ངག་དབང་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གྲགས་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ། We pray for the firm and enduring life of Ngawang Jigme Chodrak. མདོ་སྔགས་ཆོས་ཚུལ་ཟབ་ཅིང་རྒྱ་ཆེའི་བཅུད། The essence of the profound and vast Dharma of sutra and mantra, སྨིན་གྲོལ་བསྐྱེད་རྫོགས་གདམས་པའི་ཟིལ་དངར་རྒྱུན། The continuous, nectar like stream of instructions on ripening and liberation, and the generation and completi...

𝗞𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗬o𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗚o𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗝𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗬o𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗚o𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗼𝗿 𝗞𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗚o𝗻𝗿𝗶 (𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟵–𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵)(past). 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗝𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗽𝗼 was one of the greatest Dzogchen masters in recent times, and was said to be the joint emanation of Jetsun Senge Wangshuk, Jigme Lingpa and Migyur Namkhe Dorje. He was commonly considered to be an incarnation of the primordial Buddha Samantrabhadra. Born in 1899, Khenpo Jigme Yonten Gonpo studied with many great masters including HE Fifth Dzogchen Rinpoche Tupten Choki Dorje, Great Khenpo of Jagong Shenpen Nangwa, Shadral Kunga Palden, and many more. He received teachings on sutra, tantra and the general sciences, but most importantly Khenpo received all the empowerments, guidance and personal instructions of the Heart Essence of the Great Perfection and became the most important realised lineage holder of his day. From the throne of Shirasing Buddhist College, he taught extensively on...

This National Day is especially meaningful as we celebrate the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, at a time when, in the nearly twenty years of my own reign, we are engaged in a national endeavour of profound significance which will shape the future of Bhutan. I am honoured to mark this occasion here in Bumthang, a sacred land blessed by Guru Rinpoche and Longchenpa, the birthplace of Pema Lingpa, and the ancestral home of the Wangchuck dynasty. I speak to you today from the grounds of Wangduechhoeling Palace, built by Jigme Namgyel, where Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck was born. There couldn’t have been a more fitting place to honour our forefathers and to reaffirm our pledge to serve Bhutan with courage, determination, and unwavering dedication. To all Bhutanese watching the celebrations, you are in our hearts wherever you are. As we all know, the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is of extraordinary importance for Bhutan’s prosperous future. I would like to share up...