“I, Yeshe Tsogyal, will always manifest to lead all beings to wisdom-bliss.”
Since 2002 Jnanasukha Foundation, the Wisdom-Bliss Foundation founded by Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo, is creating a body of knowledge, practice, and community connected to the Wisdom Dakini, Yeshe Tsogyal, and the Dudjom New Treasures of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. The Foundation also offers grants to organizations in the West, Nepal, and Tibet.
Yeshe Tsogyal was a chief disciple and consort of Guru Rinpoche in 8th-century Tibet. A master in her own right, she exemplified the spiritual path and recorded Guru Rinpoche’s teachings for the future.
“You pray to me, the Mother, unceasingly, but it is the expanse of Great Bliss that grants blessings.”
Jnanasukha Foundation Activities
Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal
“I AM YESHE TSOGYAL” is a website where Tsogyal speaks in her own voice. Learn about her life, birthplace, writings, emanations, and much more. Download a bibliography and supplications. Watch our film about her birthplace, In The Minds of All Beings, and enjoy a rich Vimeo showcase! Jnanasukha Foundation has supported Tsogyal Latso, Yeshe Tsogyal’s birthplace, since 2010.
“Dear Friends of My Lineage! I am Yeshe Tsogyal; in Sanskrit, Jnanasagara, and in today’s world, Victorious Ocean of Wisdom. Many prophecies predict that I will have a billion emanations that will benefit beings.”
In my most famous lifetime, I was born in Tibet, a princess in the land of Kharchen in the Wood Bird Year 777. Auspicious signs accompanied my birth indicating that I would benefit countless beings. In this respect, my journey began at age sixteen, when I was accepted as a disciple of the supreme Lotus-Born of Oddiyana. Then, until he left this world, I was his student, scribe, and consort.”
Visit: http://www.iamyeshetsogyal.com.
Tsogyal Center & Utpala Online
The Tsogyal Center for online study and practice was blessed by Repkong Lama Tsedrup Tharchin Rinpoche who christened it as The Joyful Lotus Grove of Scripture & Realization.
Since 2020, the Tsogyal Center is operated as a Mighty Network called Utpala. It’s private and free, and accessible on mobile devices and desktops.
The utpala or blue lotus is associated with Prajnaparamita, Tara, and Manjushri. It represents sublime knowledge and wisdom and is often shown as not yet fully blossomed, indicating the continual unfolding of the spiritual journey.
The Utpala Network offers self-paced courses called Learning Spaces, downloads of sadhanas, images and instructions, regular practice events, articles on a variety of topics, community connection through a chat function, and more.
To see for yourself, request to join at https://utpala.mn.co
Benefit-All Grants
The Foundation supports organizations, East and West, whose mission is related to Yeshe Tsogyal and the Nyingma tradition. Recent recipients include:
-Tsogyal Latso, Tibet—the birthplace of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal. Since 2010 annual support, medical care, new temple and murals, and other projects.
-Sindul Palchen Monastery in Zabbulung, Western Tibet, where Yeshe Tsogyal attained the rainbow body: new life-size Guru Rinpoche statue and Great Accomplishment Practice.
-Nyenlung, seat of Khandro Tare Lhamo & Namtrul Rinpoche in Eastern Tibet
-Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and the Heritage Foundation, USA.
-Three-year retreatants, Treasury of Lives, Shechen Tibet, Buddhist Resource Digital Center, Lamaling Tibet, Shugseb Nunnery Tibet, Padma Charitable Foundation, Sang Lung and Dzogchen in Eastern Tibet, Tibetan Language Institute, and Feeding America.
Sangha Journeys & Tibet Pilgrimages
Lord Buddha Shakyamuni, Padmasambhava, the Greeks, Mayans, Jesus, and Mohammad have all praised the transformative power of pilgrimage journeys.
For Western Buddhists, pilgrimage is particularly important. Not living in a Buddhist culture, they are in danger of relying on a mere intellectual grasp of Dharma rather than absorbing it as a way of life that leads to authentic illumination.
Since 2009, Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo has led annual group pilgrimages of up to 20 persons to central and eastern Tibet with a focus on the sacred sites of the Nyingma.
Due to the pandemic, Sangha Journeys is now livestreaming pilgrimages every two months from central and eastern Tibet with educational resources and downloadable recordings. Visit: https://livesanghajourneys.squarespace.com
Khandro Tare Lhamo
Tare Lhamo ((1938–2003) was a master, visionary, and treasure revealer, renowned for life-saving miracles during the Cultural Revolution in Eastern Tibet.
At 40, she became the wisdom consort of Namtrul Rinpoche Jigme Phuntsok, aka Orgyen Namkha Lingpa (1944–2011), the Fourth Namkai Nyingpo, and the rebirth of her father, Apang Terchen. For almost twenty years, the eminent couple collaborated in revealing and disseminating treasures, organizing and sponsoring projects, and creating new programs of study and practice.
Since 2016, Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo has explored the life and works of Tare Lhamo and published a catalog of her treasure writings with Namtrul Rinpoche.
Translations & Publications
In 2002, the purpose for creating Jnanasukha was to translate the Dudjom Dakini Heart Essence (Khandro Thuktik) treasure compendium. Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo and Heidi Nevin, guided by Lama Tsering Gyaltsen Rinpoche, translated about 500 Tibetan folios. Since then, Lama Wangmo has continued to translate and publish on the Utpala Network—sadhanas, instructions, prayers, and pilgrimage guides. Her current project is Yeshe Tsogyal’s Notebook, Tsogyal’s recollected teachings received from Guru Rinpoche and presented as a red text, meaning terse and to the point.
In 2015, Jnanasukha commissioned Chönyi Drolma to translate The Secret Biography of Yeshe Tsogyal, discovered by the 14th-century revealer, Drime Kunga. This is now published as The Life & Visions of Yeshe Tsogyal: Autobiography of the Great Wisdom Queen under the Snow Lion imprint of Shambhala Publications (browse inside feature). Also available in German at Manjughosha Edition.
Sacred Art
Sacred Art is one of nirmanakaya's four manifestational powers. Its purpose is to awaken the experience of ultimate truth. The Foundation has commissioned two original works.
In 2008, the Dakini Heart Essence Refuge Thangka was commissioned to thangka artist Kumar Lama in consultation with Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche.
In 2015, a Yeshe Tsogyal Nirmanakaya applique thangka was commissioned to thangka artist Leslie Nguyen Temple in consultation with Lama Yeshe Wangmo and the Rubin Museum of Art.
