The Khyentse Vision Project, a Dharma-translation initiative of Khyentse Foundation, founded by the renowned Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and author Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, has announced that the esteemed tulku Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche will give a two-day live-streamed teaching titled “Teachings on the Heart Sutra: Illuminating the Prajñaparamita,” from 29–30 March.
“Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche will be giving a special two-day teaching for KVP on Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo’s Heart Sutra commentary.” the Khyentse Vision Project said in an announcement seen by BDG. “At the young age of 17, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo composed a line-by-line commentary to the world’s most famous Buddhist scripture, the Heart Sutra. The text is titled The Light of Definitive Meaning: A Lamp That Illuminates the Profound Perfection of Wisdom. This concise yet profound commentary details the profound Mahayana teachings of emptiness, the nature of reality.”
The Khyentse Vision Project added that live-stream details for the teaching would be announced soon.
Launched in early 2021,* Khyentse Vision Project’s mission is to translate the complete works of the revered terton Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the Great First Khyentse and founder of the Rimé movement, into English and make them freely accessible online.
Born in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham (now in Sichuan Province, China), Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–92), also known as Pema Osal Do-ngak Lingpa, was one of the most eminent masters in 19th century Tibet. He was a contemporary of the renowned masters Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829–70) and Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, and was regarded as the reincarnations of Vimalamitra and King Trisong Deutsen.
He was a founder and key figure of the non-sectarian Rimé movement, which sought to recognize and appreciate the differences and strengths of the various schools and traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. The movement’s efforts to collate and reproduce rare Tibetan Buddhist texts of the Sakya, Kagyu and Nyingma schools, including many near-extinct teachings, was also a significant factor in the preservation of Tibetan Buddhism amid aggressive Communist suppression.
As a Dharma translation initiative, under the umbrella of Khyentse Foundation, the Khyentse Vision Project stands alongside the Kumarajiva Project, also founded under the auspices of Khyentse Foundation, which has been working for the past two years to translate Tibetan Buddhist texts into Chinese. Meanwhile, the global non-profit initiative 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, is a long-term undertaking founded by Rinpoche that aims to translate and publish all surviving canonical texts preserved in the Classical Tibetan language—70,000 pages of the Kangyur (the translated words of the Buddha) in 25 years and 161,800 pages of the Tengyur (the translated commentaries on the Buddha’s teachings) in 100 years.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, the founder and spiritual head of the Mangala Shri Bhuti global sangha based in Boulder, Colorado, and a tulku in the Longchen Nyingtik and Khen-Kong-Chok-Sum lineages of the Nyingma tradition. Rinpoche received extensive training in all major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. He has authored several books, including: It’s Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path; Light Comes Through: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to our Natural Intelligence; and Diligence: The Joyful Endeavor of the Buddhist Path.
It’s important to state at the outset that emptiness doesn’t refer to a void or black hole. It is not the same as nonexistence. To say that a person or thing is “empty” simply means that it doesn’t exist in the intrinsic way we think it does. When we say phenomena are empty, we mean that we can’t grasp them or pin them down. It doesn’t mean that they don’t function or appear to our senses. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
* Khyentse Foundation Launches New Initiative to Translate the Works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (BDG)
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