Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 17-minute teaching on the Lama Chopa practice, Kyabje Rinpoche explains the nature of offerings made to the Guru and Buddha field. Rather than ordinary material offerings, these are expressions of nondual bliss and emptiness that engage all five sense faculties—form for the eyes, sound for the ears, scent for the nose, taste for the tongue, and tactile sensation for the body. He works through the mechanics of making offerings when you are self-generated as a deity: the correct hand position, direction of the offerings toward the field in front of you rather than toward yourself, and how to visualize and arrange offerings using a mandala base. The teaching addresses practical questions about offering substances and their symbolic meanings, suited to practitioners already engaged in guru yoga practice.
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File: 1992-09-04 – 13B – KR.mp3
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Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Guru Puja – Lama Chopa
Date: 1992-09-04
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~346
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# Lama Chöpa 13b 1992-09-04 **Collection:** Rinpoche Recordings — Lama Chöpa and Guru Yoga **Duration:** 16.8 minutes **Words:** 348 **Model:** Deepgram Nova-3 **Corrections applied:** 0 **Transcribed:** 2026-02-28 19:14 — So these offerings are not ordinary offerings. Are, as we have explained previously, they are in the nature of the wisdom of the nondual bliss and emptiness. They have aspects of…
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# Lama Chöpa 13b 1992-09-04
**Collection:** Rinpoche Recordings — Lama Chöpa and Guru Yoga
**Duration:** 16.8 minutes
**Words:** 348
**Model:** Deepgram Nova-3
**Corrections applied:** 0
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-28 19:14
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So these offerings are not ordinary offerings. Are, as we have explained previously, they are in the nature of the wisdom of the nondual bliss and emptiness. They have aspects of the various offering substances such as form, sound, smell, taste, and they have a function of generating bliss to the various faculties. As being what? What form would you offer?
In mundane existence, likewise we’re making offerings to the Buddhas in order to generate bliss with respect to each of their five faculties. So for example, it is visible forms which generate bliss to the eye sense faculty, etcetera, so it’s just as in the world or mundane existence, we are coordinating making offerings to each of the five senses even of the Buddha. If if it’s in the nature of the nondual bliss wisdom, you can offer it. When you’re offering if you have a piece of mandala base. So yeah, you can do that, that’s fine.
You can have a mandala base of one shape, but on top of that, you can have an actual physical base of particular shape, but on top of that imaginatively thinking that there are other bases of different shape mandala. Is in So if if if one is doing to oneself as a self generated deity, you begin like in with the left hand in front. Yeah. Like this. So here we’re offering towards what is in front of us.
So we’re not trying to bring the offerings to ourselves. So there’s that difference. So so in in there’s no offering to oneself. It is to the field which you make an offering. Think it’s about your feet?
Emanating the goddesses? Is it for water? Flower? The opening of the flower blossoming. Okay.
Do pay the incense? So the smoke is curling down? This is like the wick in the middle of the lamp. Rupa form. The fragrant liquid you can do it either one of those two ways?
So by joining, there was the triangular reality source. Jim and Linda took some pictures of the Mudra.