Chokling Tersar Library

Our Chokling Tersar Library offers booklets containing a diverse array of traditional Tibetan Buddhist practices and commentary, primarily drawn from the Profound Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa (Chokling Tersar). Intended to provide essential study and practice materials for followers of the Chokling Tersar tradition, these texts are conveniently downloadable in PDF format for any Buddhist practitioner.

Biographies

Wish-Fulfilling Tree

At the age of twenty-eight, on the fifteenth day of the fourth month in the Fire Dragon Year (May 19, 1856), Chokgyur Lingpa revealed as an earth treasure (sater) the...

Buddhas & Bodhisattvas

Chokter Phowa

Phowa is the practice of deliberately transferring one’s own or another’s consciousness to achieve a felicitous result at the time of death. This transference (phowa) be directed towards liberation within...

Treasury of Blessings

The Treasury of Blessings: A Practice of Buddha Shakyamuni (Tubchok Chinlab Terdzö) holds a place of prominence as a renowned and deeply cherished sadhana that invokes the presence of Buddha...

Commentaries & Advice

The Essential Amrita of Profound Meaning

The Essential Amrita of Profound Meaning is a collection of twenty-four pieces of heart advice that the Great Tertön Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa gave upon the request of various disciples...

Dakini

Vajra Claw

Vajra Claw—Dorjé Dermo in Tibetan and Vajranakhi in Sanskrit—is a wrathful dakini invoked as a means to protect a practitioner’s domestic space, family, friends, and allies, and to avert any...

Zaptik Drolchok

The Profound Essence of Tara (Zabtik Drolchok) is widely renowned sadhana of Green Tara, which was revealed as a mind treasure (gongter) by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829–1870). One morning at...

Tersar Lujin

Chöd (Severance) can be understood as the ritual enactment of the truth of profound emptiness, which was taught by the Buddha in the Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) scriptures. The practice...

Deva

Sangtik Phurba

Vajrakilaya is the wrathful form of Vajrasattva, the embodiment of the awakened activity of all the buddhas—manifesting in an intensely wrathful yet compassionate form in order to subjugate the delusion...

Guru

Lama Norlha

On the tenth day of the ninth month of the Earth Monkey Year (November 7, 1848), Chokgyur Lingpa was only twenty years old, yet the time was ripe to reveal...

A Shower of Precious Blessings

A Shower of Precious Blessings (Jinlap Norbu Drucha) is a collection of thirty-five prayers by the Great Tertön Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa, composed at the request of various disciples on...

Concise Daily Practice with Sang and Tsok

On the tenth day of the ninth month of the Earth Monkey Year (November 7, 1848), Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa was only twenty years old, yet the time was ripe to...

Liberation Upon Hearing

Liberation Upon Hearing (Thödrol) is an extraordinary text that serves as a singular guide for practitioners, leading them through the intricate stages (bardos) they encounter during the journey after death....

Tukdrub Ngöndro

The Preliminary Practices encapsulated in the Tibetan term Ngöndro, wield profound and potent methods to cleanse and transform every facet of our existence. These practices not only serve as a...

The Ultimate Guru Sadhana of Simplicity

Kyabjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche has authored a singular composition, a Guru Yoga entitled The Ultimate Guru Sadhana of Simplicity (Trömé Lhadrub), that encapsulates the very essence of the Great Perfection...

Lotus Essence Tantra

The Lotus Essence Tantra (Pemé Nyingpö Gyü) was initially imparted by Guru Padmasambhava and subsequently revealed as a treasure by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829–1870) within The Guru’s Heart Practice: Dispeller...

Concise Sampa Lhundrup with Feast Gathering

On the tenth day of the tenth month (November 16, 1858), Chokgyur Lingpa along with Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo revealed The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Wishes (Sampa Lhündrup) from Drak Rinchen Barwa...

Concise Daily Practice with Feast Offering

On the tenth day of the ninth month of the Earth Monkey Year (November 7, 1848), Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa was only twenty years old, yet the time was ripe to...

Le’ü Dünma

The Le’ ü Dün Ma, The Prayer in Seven Chapters, holds a special place as one of the most cherished invocations of the Mahaguru, remaining a central practice for numerous...

Sang, Sur & Lungta

An Ocean of Everything Ever Wished For: A Sang and Gift Offering

An Ocean of Everything Ever Wished For: A Sang and Gift Offering (Sang Ngen Dögü Gyatso), commonly referred to as Chokling’s Smoke and Gift Offering (Chokling Sang Ngen), is the...