Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma
Volume 3
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
9781934608012
476 pages
KTD Publications
Overview
Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma, Volume Three opens with concise bardo teachings as well as instructions on benefiting people in the bardo state. The book continues with instructions and advice for the practitioner, including protecting oneself from potential threats with loving kindness and compassion, purifying obscurations through invoking wisdom deities, learning the signs that arise during practice, recognizing when your practice gets off track and eradicating the causes, utilizing methods to develop one's practice, and bringing the five mental afflictions (desire, anger, ignorance, jealousy, and pride) to the path.Author Bio
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche was born in Rabshu in the province of Kham in eastern Tibet. He was born at sunrise on Mahakala Day, the twenty-ninth day, of the second month in the Year of the Wood Mouse, 1924. On this day, very early in the morning, Rinpoche's mother went to fetch water from the stream, carrying the full vessel of water home. Rinpoche was then born with no pain to his mother.According to Tibetan tradition, all of these special circumstances show a very auspicious birth. Rinpoche's father was a devoted Manjushri practitioner who constantly recited the Manjushri Sutra. He would go to sleep reciting the sutra and when he woke up, he simply continued with his recitation. His practice was so strong that he was known to benefit even animals when they would die. When Rinpoche was quite young, his father taught him to read and write, as well as study and memorize Dharma texts. Rinpoche decided at a young age to follow the path of his older brothers, who were both monks. At the age of twelve he entered Thrangu Monastery in eastern Tibet.
