Ngak'chang Rinpoche in this second interview with Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo, during March 2024, addresses current issues and topics around Vajrayana Buddhism. - The importance of authentic vajrayana teachers - Adapting teachings to suit people and time - Gaining realisation without a teacher - The role of the teacher - Online transmission and online teachings and empowerments - Psychedelic drugs and Dzogchen Practice - ‘Vajrayana should change with the times’ - The demand for equality between teacher and student ..read more

In this interview with Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo during lo-gsar 2024, Ngak'chang Rinpoche addresses current issues and topics around Vajrayana Buddhism, covering: The current movement of adaptation of Vajrayana: dispensing with patriarchy and vertical power structures. Vajrayana without the Vajra master - can that function? Devotion - ‘the days of great devotion are over’; or - misunderstanding of devotion ..read more

In this interview with Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo, Ngak'chang Rinpoche addresses current issues and topics around Vajrayana Buddhism, covering: The current movement of adaptation of Vajrayana: dispensing with patriarchy and vertical power structures. Vajrayana without the Vajra master - can that function? Devotion - ‘the days of great devotion are over’; or - misunderstanding of devotion ..read more

Welcome to a series of short interviews about the non-celibate or ngak’phang tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen. They are the current holders of the Aro gTér, a non-monastic family lineage originating in Tibet in the late 1800s with the great female gTérton Khyungchen Aro Lingma. Although born in the west, Ngak’chang Rinpoche travelled to the Himalayas in 1971 aged 19 where he met with Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche, Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje, the head of the Nyingma tradition. Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche, Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje confirmed the childhood visions of Ngak’ch ..read more

Ngak’chang Rinpoche speaks with Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo about his memoirs — from her readings of ‘an odd boy’ Volume I. ‘an odd boy’ has been described as Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ meets Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood’. It’s a portrait of the artist as a young man; a coming-of-age adventure set in the cultural ferment of the 1960s. A high-spirited escapade—humorous and poignant by turn—of an era when the arts set a generation’s imagination on fire. https://aro-books-worldwide.org/shared/text/b/book_pb_05_an_odd_boy_v01_01_eng.php ..read more

Part 2, of interview with Nyima o-Zer Khandro and Ngak'chang Rinpoche, recorded in Alameda, California, in March 2011. A discussion of the common questions and challenges, from the view of Vajrayana Buddhism. ( www.arobuddhism.org ..read more

Interview with Nyima o-Zer Khandro and Ngak'chang Rinpoche, recorded in Alameda, California, in March 2011. A discussion of the common questions and challenges, from the view of Vajrayana Buddhism. ( www.arobuddhism.org ..read more

Interview with Nyima o-Zer Khandro and Ngak'chang Rinpoche, recorded in Alameda, California, in October 2010. An introduction to the subject of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism, including symbolism, devotion, and the role of the teacher. ( www.arobuddhism.org ..read more

Interview with Nyima o-Zer Khandro and Ngak'chang Rinpoche, recorded in Alameda, California, in October 2010. A detailed discussion of Karma from the view of Vajrayana. ( www.arobuddhism.org ..read more

The final podcast of this series continues the discussion with karma, in particular with reference to the impulse towards anger, the life of Milarépa, and common misunderstandings of what is meant by karma within Buddhism. ( www.arobuddhism.org ..read more