Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje Series

Tibetan Masters Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje

You have perfected all the precious qualities of discipline and learning, and hold all the classes of Buddha’s teaching,

Graced with the blessing of the lama Mañjuśrī, you are a vidyādhara master

Supreme at conveying the definitive secret teaching of Dzogpachenpo—the Vajra Essence.

Glorious lama, at your feet I pray!

Texts by the great Dzogchen teacher and historian Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje (smyo shul mkhan po 'jam dbyangs rdo rje, 1932–1999):

Calling the Guru from Afar

Luminous Clouds of Spontaneous Song: A Prayer to Call the Guru from Afar

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche wrote this song of "calling the guru from afar" (bla ma rgyang 'bod) to accompany the Ultimate Guru Sādhana of Simplicity (spros med don gyi bla sgrub) composed by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996).

Calling the Guru from Afar 4 Feb 2022

Dzogchen

Advice in a Single Statement (from Khenpo Ngawang Palzang)

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche recalls the advice of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, who managed to encapsulated the Dzogchen practice of Trekchö (khregs chod) in a single pithy instruction.

Advice Dzogchen 21 Nov 2014

Principles of the Dzogchen Practice of Khordé Rushen

In this short essay, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche explains the theory behind the Dzogchen preliminary practice known as Khordé Rushen ('khor 'das ru shan), or separating the domains of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.

Dzogchen Advice Notes Restricted 22 Jun 2018

The Five Wisdoms

Definitions of the five wisdoms (ye shes lnga), i.e., the wisdom of dharmadhātu, mirror-like wisdom, wisdom of equality, wisdom of discernment and all-accomplishing wisdom, according to the oral tradition of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, aka Khenpo Ngakchung.

Advice Dzogchen Notes 15 Aug 2015

History

The Precious Torch: A History of the ‘Looks Like Me’ Statue of Omniscient Longchenpa

This short text was written in Hong Kong following the author's commissioning of one thousand and twenty-five portrait statues of Longchen Rabjam in 1992 and provides a history of the various statues of Longchenpa that have existed from the master's own lifetime to the present day.

History 3 Feb 2026

Poems

Mindfulness: The Mirror of the Mind

With a characteristic blend of bluntness and humility, Nyoshul Khenpo explains the importance of mindfulness (smṛti; dran pa) and exhorts his followers to rely upon it at all times.

Songs and Poems Mindfulness 29 Apr 2013

Natural Great Peace

In this short poem of just five lines, the great Dzogchen master Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche evocatively conveys the healing power of meditation.

Songs and Poems 15 Dec 2016

Prayers

Prayer to Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche

adapted from the words of Dudjom Rinpoche

Yeshe Sangpo Rinpoche (b. 1945) created this six-line supplication to Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje (1932–1999) by adapting the popular long-life prayer originally composed by Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche (1904–1987).

Prayers 27 Aug 2025

Prayer to the Omniscient Longchen Rabjam

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche added a line to this popular invocation of Longchen Rabjam, transforming it into a prayer to realize the natural state, which is the true nature of the mind.

Prayers 15 Nov 2018

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