![On of the tracks of Voice of Tibet, a CD by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, translated and transliterated for recitation. It is actually the beginning portion of the famous Karma Lingpa cycle's ngondro, which quaint orientalists used to call “Tibetan Book of the Dead”.](/img/lead/prayer-upon-awakening.webp)
Prayer upon awakening
On of the tracks of Voice of Tibet, a CD by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, translated and transliterated for recitation. It is actually the beginning portion of the famous Karma Lingpa cycle's ngondro, which quaint orientalists used to call “Tibetan Book of the Dead”.
![This a recitation for the fourth and fifth chapters of The King of Samadhis Sutra.](/img/lead/recitation-the-king-of-samadhis-sutra-04-05.webp)
Recitation: The King of Samadhis Sutra 04-05
This a recitation for the fourth and fifth chapters of The King of Samadhis Sutra.
![This a recitation for the first chapter of The King of Samadhis Sutra.](/img/lead/recitation-the-king-of-samadhis-sutra-01.webp)
Recitation: The King of Samadhis Sutra 01
This a recitation for the first chapter of The King of Samadhis Sutra.
![A list of ideas, institutions and companies I disapprove of and try my best to boycott.](/img/lead/activism-causes-and-principles-i-stand-for.webp)
Activism: causes and principles I stand for
A list of ideas, institutions and companies I disapprove of and try my best to boycott.
![There's supposedly a new form of Buddhism around: rupayana. But isn't it the same old colonialist appropriation of dharma in the name of](/img/lead/rupayana-buddhism-and-the-metaphysics-of-matter.webp)
Rupayana? Buddhism and the metaphysics of matter
There's supposedly a new form of Buddhism around: rupayana. But isn't it the same old colonialist appropriation of dharma in the name of "purifying it" from its embarrassing "primitive people's" beliefs, such as rebirth or magic? Isn't it the the same 2010s "Buddhism without beliefs", or even the same 19th century Buddhism+British Civility diluted and served down at colonies? Shouldn't we focus more on dissipating the reification of substance, or metaphysical notions such as physicalist monism, rather than trying whitewashing the dharma?