How does pilgrimage fit into the Buddhist way of doing things?

Plus the Guru Rinpoche mantra sung to a tune you might not have expected.

Words or phrases you might want to look up:

• Walsingham
• Hajj
• Kumbh Mela
• Lumbini
• Bodh Gaya
• Sarnath
• Kuśinagara
• Vajrayana
• Dorje Sempa (Vajrasattva)
• Kailash
• Jokhang
• Guru Rinpoche

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Chöd - a vast stream of Buddhist practice! Here is a taste.

Chöd

Chödpa - (images of)

Jamgön Kongtrül

Treasury of Knowledge

Rimé

Sakya

Kadampa

Kagyu (Marpa and Shangpa)

Nyingma

Kalachakra

Machig Labdrön - Machik’s Complete Explanation

Phadampa Sangye

Dakini

Damaru

Karma Kagyu

Dudjom Tersar

Yeshe Dorje (Rainmaker)

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In the early weeks of this podcast I included an approximate script, not particularly well edited, on a blog page. For the episode dropped on 4 September entitled “Bad gurus, tosh gurus and good gurus” and for episodes due to be dropped from 18 September onwards, starting with “Jyekundo / Yushu: travelling in East Tibet” there is a transcript file which is much closer to the actual words used.

Note that other distribution platforms do not necessarily pass this on, and if you want to read it you may need to listen on podbean. YouTube has been making its own transcript, which was an unholy mess. I think I have now deleted all of these "auto-generated" scripts, but it will not be possible to retrospectively add properly edited transcripts to episodes prior to September 2024.