Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche - Chod Feasts: From Cycle of Wrathful Black Dakini T'hröma Nagmo, full album

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche - Chod Feasts: From Cycle of Wrathful Black Dakini Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche – The Chöd Feasts = Festins De Tchöd "The Chöd Feasts: From the Cycle of the Wrathful Black Dakini, T'hröma Nagmo, A Treasure of Dudjom Lingpa" 1 T'hröma's Laughter Which Awes And Overpowers By Splendor 2 Preliminary Prayers 3 Black Feast Of Predawn 4 White Feast At Dawn 5 Mixed Feast At Noon 6 Red Feast At Twilight 7 Final Prayers 8 Pure Vision: Red Feast 9 Pure Vision: Red Feast: Final Prayers 10 Concise Feast: Preliminary Prayers 11 Concise Feast 12 Concise Feast: Final Prayers Chod Practice: the Visceral Imagery of Offering Your Own Chopped-Up Body to All Sentient Beings is Perhaps the Most Misunderstood of Profound Buddhist Practices. Chod Represents the Ultimate Expression of Bodhichitta and”Cuts Your Attachment.” The vivid and visceral imagery of Chod Practice — where you visualize offering your own body to all sentient beings, chopped up into grisly bits, and presented in a human skull — can lead to extreme misunderstanding. Teachings such as Chod are advanced and profoundly effective practices that help us “cut” our ego, tame our internal “demons” and develop genuine bodhichitta for all beings. But, the need for explanation and teacher guidance is critical. Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche with students after a Chod teaching. "The Chod practice dispels negative mental states, which are our “demons.” The Chod practice transforms mental defilement into the wisdom of Bodhichitta and Shunyata." — from an description of an Chod initiation event and teaching from Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, December 1, 2016 at Gaden Choling in Toronto. The hypnotic beat of Chod drums and bells, and the careful chanting of melodious but mysterious chants at first seem provocative, and beautiful. Then, when the visualized meditation is described, and the teacher blows on a horn made of human bone, abruptly that perception might change. Chopping up one’s own body? Playing a human bone instrument? What’s that all about? It is a practice designed “to reinforce and develop the understanding of egolessness and in order to develop compassion for all sentient beings,” wrote teacher Tsultrim Allion in her book Women of Wisdom. “In this practice, after various preliminaries, the practitioner performs the offering of the body — this is the essence of Chod practice. ‘Chod’ (gCod) literally means “to cut” referring to cutting attachment to the body and ego. The practice of T'hroma contains the complete path of the Vajrayana, from ngondro (the preliminary practices) all the way through the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) practices of trekchod and t'hogal. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche's reputation as one of the great T'hroma singers was widespread in Asia. This digital recording of the Chod songs was made at his seat Chagdud Gonpa Khadro Ling, in Tres Coroas, Brazil, near the end of his life. A Synopsis of Dudjom Lingpa's incarnations o Chagdud Rinpoche speaks about his experience with this practice in an excerpt from his autobiography, Lord of the Dance o Instructions on the Chod Practice by Chagdud Rinpoche o Photographs of Chagdud Rinpoche performing Chod in the 1970s and 1990s o Line Drawings of Dudjom Lingpa and the deity, T'hroma Nagmo o T'hanka image of T'hroma Nagmo o Short History of Chagdud Gonpa in Tibet, the United States and Brazil. HIS EMINENCE CHAGDUD TULKU RINPOCHE-meditation master, teacher and artist-held many great lineages of the Nyingma tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism from Tibet: the Dudjom, Khyentse, Apong Terton, Khenpo Ngaga, Padgyal Lingpa and Longchen Nyingt'hig. Founder of Chagdud Gonpa Foundation and Chagdud Gonpa Brasil, he constructed the first Tibetan traditional temple in Latin American. He also authored several books on Buddhism and the path of meditation including, Life in Relation to Death, Gates to Buddhist Practice and his autobiography, Lord of the Dance. Chagdud Rinpoche writes in the liner notes, 'Traditionally in Tibet, a person would be required to have empowerment in order to learn and practice the chod feasts as these are profound teachings from the Great Perfection. But this practice is known as 't'hod drol' which means that it possesses the quality of liberating upon hearing. I am releasing this recording openly because of this potential to benefit beings in this way.' May All Sentient Beings Benefit