The mastiff, as fierce as a leopard or tiger, Have I easily calmed by a piece of meat; Yet the tigress do I have at home however, Becomes more fierce the more we live together. – Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama Mastiff: In Tibet one finds a watchdog, usually …
So the tree falls in love with the sparrow, And the sparrow falls in love with the tree, too; When the two in love unite into one, The hawk, the bird of prey, e’en can do them none. – Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama
Who seem most beautiful to the worldly, samsaric people? Those who act sweetly and give their words like candy. – Kalsang Gyatso, the seventh Dalai Lama Here the seventh Dalai lama seems almost to laugh at the gullible nature of most humans, for they generally look to style rather than …
What is like a smelly fart that, although invisible, is obvious? One’s own faults, that are precisely as obvious as the effort made to hide them. – Kelsang Gyatso, the seventh Dalai Lama Ordinary people try to hide their faults and show what they think of as their good qualities. …
ཧ་ཅང་སེམས་ལ་སོང་ནས།།
གྲོགས་འདྲིས་ཨེ་ཡོང་དྲིས་པས།།
འཆི་འབྲལ་བྱེད་ན་མིན་པ།།
གསོན་འབྲལ་མི་བྱེད་གསུངས་བྱུང་།།
ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་དྲུག་པ་།
As my love to her is deep as deep can be,
Did I ask her company for life with me,
And she quoth: “While alive we’ll n’er part,
Let death only do us part”.
Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama
རང་ལ་དགའ་བའི་བྱམས་པ་། །
གཞན་གྱི་མདུན་མར་བླངས་སོང་། །
ཁོང་ནང་སེམས་པའི་གཅོང་གི་། །
ལུས་པོའི་ཤ་ཡང་བསྐམས་སོང་། །
ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ ༧གོང་ས་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་དྲུག་པ་།
Sleepless I am
Because I am in Love;
Fatigue and frustration overwhelm
When day brings not my beloved to me.
Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama
