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.
Lama Dawa teaches on the short Dudjom Ngondro practice. From a teaching given in Oxford, Iowa, 2000. Lama Dawa teaches on the short Dudjom
In this intimate and engaging teaching, Lama Dawa gives a reading tranmission and a translation on-the-fly, along with commentary on the text, “DAM-NGAG MAR-GYI YANG-ZHUN;” a terma revelation by Dorje Lingpa. This special teaching is of the genre of ‘liberation upon hearing’ in which Padmasambhava claimed one could become liberated from the three lower realms by hearing this teaching three times. The teaching is followed by a lively discussion and question and answer period, and also includes Lama Dawa bestowing the lung two more times so that participants would hear this three times. This teaching was given to a small group in Sonoma, CA in 2008.
In a teaching given at the RiverView Dharma Center in Iowa in 2009, Acharya Dawa Chhodak Rinpoche gives Dzogchen instructions based on texts from Jamgon
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.”
