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A CRYSTAL COLLECTION

Visvavajra - Pauline Fediow (c1968)
'Visvavajra', Pauline Fediow (1968), Sakya-Namgyal Archives, Heather Rigby donor

The Namgyal Rinpoche Stories Project - 2008
David Berry (Producer), Rab Wilkie (Editor)

If you'd like to continue reading news about our project and some of the stories we are collecting, or in contributing your own recollections, stay tuned. By doing so you will be participating, silently or vocally, as a flashing mind-cell in this Namgyalian experiment - to reactivate memory and integrate myriad experiences in the global sensorium.

Or more simply, you will be helping us publish a book.

This is a non-profit publishing project, initially aimed at stirring up memories and sharing insightful stories about Namgyal Rinpoche, his teachings, and other teachers of his ambit. From the materials gathered, a book will be prepared for publication, with any revenue from sales being donated to a Namgyal centre or cause. Quotes from this remarkable Teacher and notes from his talks are of special interest, while the inclusion of date, time, and place would help us establish a detailed chronology and historical context. After this stage of collecting stories, there will be an opportunity for every reader to participate in choosing the material to be included in the book.

read the stories...

Please send contributions of stories, comments, and queries about the CRYSTAL COLLECTION PROJECT to the Editor: ten.orobretep|bar#ten.orobretep|bar

Notable Recent Updates

The 5 most recent new pages in each category.

Blog

2009 March 07 - Rab Our story titles are not carved in stone, and often they have not been suggested by the authors themselves. They are mostly off-the-cuff, bidden by the Editor's muse of the...
2009 Feb 28 - Rab Wilkie Over the last year we have been gathering and sharing insightful stories about Namgyal Rinpoche (1931-2003), his teachings, and the experiences of students as we prepare...
2009 Jan 18 - Rab David is nudging me to wrap this up and get on with the book, but I don't know.. the stories keep coming in and many people like getting this newsletter! (And I enjoy doing it)....
From The EDITOR Rab Wilkie Welcome to our Rinpoche stories. And if this is a surprise, because you weren't expecting more stories or had no idea they were being written in the first place, please...
2008 Jan 13 - Rab Wilkie We shall begin. As usual, in a roundabout way, and not knowing what might happen next. But out there somewhere, there's a boojum and snark. To stir memory, we can recall...

Documents

The VISION Alan Wilkie (New Zealand) Near the end of the extended New Zealand retreat in 1973, Milton Carmen wrote a proposal for a new Dharma community, signed and approved by Rinpoche. I remember...

Contributed Stories

Gail Angevine [BC] I was not intending to write a story. But the process of reading the stories of others must have raised the question in the depth, because the following story emerged one day...
Graydon Clipperton (Toronto) I was fifteen. It was springtime in 1969. I was exploring, energized and with lack of direction, found and made up what I could. I knew the realization of mustard seed...
Melodie Massey Then there was the Sahara trip. Rinpoche decided he was going to learn to drive the car. Terry took him down to a flat part of the desert where we had spent the night, so there was...
Lisa Elander - (1976?) In Cuzco, which was one of the sites for a six-week retreat in Peru, Rinpoche came to the house each morning when he was in that city. (The other site was in the Urubamba...
Matt Wright Once upon a time whilst Rinpoche and Terry were visiting Anne-Marie and I in South Florida, we decided to take a drive to the Everglades. Once there, and after quite a humorous "short"...

Ken's Notes

TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE Toronto 1971 Rab Wilkie (Editor) Ken Long (Scribe) 12Apr71, Monday (fragment) Saturday night, at 1am and/or between 3-5am, do some purposeful dreaming and record your...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE Toronto 1971 Rab Wilkie (Editor) Ken Long (Scribe) 05Apr71 (Toronto) To prepare for wongkur, you can do a puja in the morning, reflecting on the Triple Gem. Upon...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE Toronto 1971 Rab Wilkie (Editor) Ken Long (Scribe) Editor's Note: The class notes for these teachings by Rinpoche in 1971 begin to thin out as students and teacher...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE Toronto 1971 Rab Wilkie (Editor) Ken Long (Scribe) 23March71 The first three stages in meditation can be called: 1. Propitiation 2. Acquisition 3. Introjection...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE Toronto 1971 Rab Wilkie (Editor) Kennedy Long (Scribe) 18Mar71 (Theosophical Society) The Qabala reveals the Old & New Testament. There are three levels of the Tree...
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