Heart of Wisdom Sutra ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོའི་མདོ།

Topic outline

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  Manali, 13-25 August 1983

  While in Manali, India, Rinpoche taught the Heart of Wisdom Sutra, the Milarepa Sadhana and Jetsün Mila's Authentic Portrait of the Middle Way, Utpattikrama and Sampannakrama Song.

  During the '80s cassette tapes were sometimes hard to come by, especially in India, and the students had to re-record the same tapes over and over again in order to study and understand a text. The teachings on the Heart of Wisdom Sutra from Manali are therefore not complete.

  Luckily, Rinpoche's explanations on the Milarepa Sadhana were complete.

  • Part One: Tibetan with partial English translation File Audio file (MP3)
  • Part Two: Tibetan with Partial English translation File Audio file (MP3)
  • Part Three: Tibetan with Partial English translation File Audio file (MP3)
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  Karma Mingyur Ling, Montchardon, France, 1 - 7 July 1994

  Rinpoche offers a public talk in Valence, "Compassion et Sagesse" and then travels to the secluded dharma center located south of Paris.

  Rinpoche starts out by offering 1 talk on the views expressed in the three turnings of the wheel of dharma, since this will facilitate easy understanding of the Heart of Wisdom Sutra. The recordings here include translation into French for this first talk. He then elucidates the words of the sutra itself incorporating select verses by the protector Nagarjuna and the King of yogis, Milarepa. These talks are Tibetan only.

  • Public Talk, "Compassion et Sagesse", Valence, 1 July 1994, Tibetan - French File Audio file (MP3)
  • The View Expressed in the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, Tibetan - French File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 1, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 2, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 3, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 4, Skandha of Perception, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 5, Skandha of Mental Formations, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 6, Skandha of Consciousness, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 7, 7 July 1994, Tibetan Only File Audio file (MP3)
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  Hawaii, June 1996

  During his visit to Hawaii, 2-8 June 1996, Rinpoche offers teachings on

  • Milarepa's Four Supreme Things and Eleven Supreme Things
  • Gotsangpa's Eight Cases of Basic Goodness Not to be Shunned
  • Calm abiding and superior insight
  • 2 talks on Heart of Wisdom Sutra
  • The two truths based on a verse from Creation and Completion, Essential Points of Tantric Meditation
  • 2 talks on Song of Supplication to Machik Labdron

  Tibetan - English

  Tapes kindly offered by Myron Berney.

  • Talk 4, 5 June 1996, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 5, 6 June 1996, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
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  Baca Grande, Crestone 1999

  The immaculate teachings on interdependent origination is encapsulated in the Heart of Wisdom Sutra.

  During his fourth visit at Baca Grande, Crestone, September 1999, Rinpoche begins his explications by pointing out emptiness based on this sutra, as well as quotations by the great Indian and Tibetan masters.

  Rinpoche then continues to teach the Mahamudra Aspiration Prayer by the 3rd. Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje over 4 talks.

  • 24 September 1999, Tibetan - English File Audio file (MP3)
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  Arya Tara and Drikung Garchen Institute, Munich, March 2003

  Visiting Munich in March 2003, Rinpoche offers three talks on the Heart of Wisdom Sutra and 3 talks on the verses from Nagarjuna's treatise, Knowledge Fundamental to the Middle Way.

  • Talk 1, 15 March 2003, Tibetan - German File Video file (MP4)
  • Talk 2, 16 March 2003, Tibetan - German File Video file (MP4)
  • Talk 3, 16 March 2003, Tibetan - German File Audio file (MP3)
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  Vajradhara Ling, 19-21 June 2003

  During his visit at Vajradhara Ling, Rinpoche offers the following 6 talks:

  • Milarepa: Identifying a Capable Student
  • 2 talks on Milarepa's Twenty Seven Cases of Dissolution
  • Milarepa: Authentic Portrait of the Middle Way
  • Milarepa: Ultimate View, Meditation, Conduct and Fruition
  • Heart of Wisdom Sutra

  Tibetan - English - French

  • Talk 6of6, Tibetan - English - French File Audio file (MP3)