Lama Döndrup Drolma (Jennifer Grant)
@lamadondrup.bsky.social
Resident Lama at Sukhasiddhi Foundation
Classical Pianist at Rising Phoenix Piano Studio
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Classical Pianist at Rising Phoenix Piano Studio
www.sukhasiddhi.org
www.risingphoenixpianostudio.com
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Be Confident in Your Buddhanature
The key to unshakable self-confidence, says Lama Döndrup Drolma, is recognizing the deepest truth of who you are.
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My article in the new issue of Lion’s Roar is about cultivating vajra-confidence in our ever present buddha nature. Included, is a brief White Tara practice that provides an opportunity to immediately deepen your experience of your indestructible true nature.
www.lionsroar.com/be-confident...
www.lionsroar.com/be-confident...
Yesterday at Sukhasiddhi Foundation, we commemorated the 20-year anniversary of my completion of 3-year retreat. Though an all-encompassing undertaking, it felt like just the initial steps on a journey, a gateway to a deep connection with the lineage and a continually evolving path. Deep gratitude.
August 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yesterday at Sukhasiddhi Foundation, we commemorated the 20-year anniversary of my completion of 3-year retreat. Though an all-encompassing undertaking, it felt like just the initial steps on a journey, a gateway to a deep connection with the lineage and a continually evolving path. Deep gratitude.
Wishing you a blessed Chökhor Düchen! May we and all beings recognize and resolve the root of our suffering! You can read about this special holiday in my most recent blog post. ✨🙏🏼✨
sukhasiddhi.org/blog/chokhor-duchen
sukhasiddhi.org/blog/chokhor-duchen
Chökhor Düchen: Celebrating the Buddha’s First Turning of the Wheel — Sukhasiddhi Foundation
On Monday, July 28th, we celebrate Chökhor Düchen, one of the four great holy days in the Buddhist calendar. Chökhor means “Dharma Wheel,” and Düchen means “great occasion.” This day commemorates the ...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Wishing you a blessed Chökhor Düchen! May we and all beings recognize and resolve the root of our suffering! You can read about this special holiday in my most recent blog post. ✨🙏🏼✨
sukhasiddhi.org/blog/chokhor-duchen
sukhasiddhi.org/blog/chokhor-duchen
Wonderful week in retreat with the Sukhasiddhi Foundation sangha. A powerful and meaningful week of Riwo Sangchö practice, Guru Rinpoche prayers, and Green Tara practice.
June 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Wonderful week in retreat with the Sukhasiddhi Foundation sangha. A powerful and meaningful week of Riwo Sangchö practice, Guru Rinpoche prayers, and Green Tara practice.
My retreat teaching prep companion today.
June 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My retreat teaching prep companion today.
Wishing you a blessed Saga Dawa Düchen! Here is a link to today’s blog with some reflections on this special day and month
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A Time to Remember and Renew: Reflections for Saga Dawa — Sukhasiddhi Foundation
Each spring, as the fourth lunar month begins, we turn our attention to a time known as Saga Dawa, a month of remembrance, reflection, and renewal. This year, Saga Dawa began on May 28 th and will con...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Wishing you a blessed Saga Dawa Düchen! Here is a link to today’s blog with some reflections on this special day and month
www.sukhasiddhi.org/blog/saga-da...
www.sukhasiddhi.org/blog/saga-da...
Truly a joyous moment. A heartening blessing for us as the current administration has been unleashing our most destructive and hateful instincts on us and the world. May Pope Leo XIV inspire us to remember our kind, wise, and compassionate hearts and let that guide our actions at home and abroad.
May 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Truly a joyous moment. A heartening blessing for us as the current administration has been unleashing our most destructive and hateful instincts on us and the world. May Pope Leo XIV inspire us to remember our kind, wise, and compassionate hearts and let that guide our actions at home and abroad.
I'm leading a retreat this weekend and am unable to participate in the protest in person, but I'm heartened, inspired, & energized by the passion of the speakers and the roar of the crowd I hear rising up from the valley where the Marin Civic Center is located. #resist #handsoff #protest
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Wishing you an auspicious Chötrül Düchen! May it bring you boundless blessings. The rare alignment with a full lunar eclipse this year amplifies the transformative power of this sacred day. You can read more about its significance in my latest blog for Sukhasiddhi Foundation. tinyurl.com/mrx5fv78
Chötrül Düchen: Celebrating the Day of Miracles — Sukhasiddhi Foundation
On Friday, March 14, 2025 we celebrate Chötrül Düchen. Chötrül Düchen, known as the "Festival of Miracles,"is one of the four great Buddhist festivals commemorating events in the life of the Buddha. O...
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March 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Wishing you an auspicious Chötrül Düchen! May it bring you boundless blessings. The rare alignment with a full lunar eclipse this year amplifies the transformative power of this sacred day. You can read more about its significance in my latest blog for Sukhasiddhi Foundation. tinyurl.com/mrx5fv78
My article in the new issue of Lion’s Roar is about cultivating vajra-confidence in our ever present buddha nature. Included, is a brief White Tara practice that provides an opportunity to immediately deepen your experience of your indestructible true nature.
www.lionsroar.com/be-confident...
www.lionsroar.com/be-confident...
Be Confident in Your Buddhanature
The key to unshakable self-confidence, says Lama Döndrup Drolma, is recognizing the deepest truth of who you are.
www.lionsroar.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My article in the new issue of Lion’s Roar is about cultivating vajra-confidence in our ever present buddha nature. Included, is a brief White Tara practice that provides an opportunity to immediately deepen your experience of your indestructible true nature.
www.lionsroar.com/be-confident...
www.lionsroar.com/be-confident...
The new painting job at the FBI Academy is disheartening. (Source: NYT) May we keep cooperativeness, fairness, leadership, compassion, diversity, integrity, stability, emotional maturity, respect, and more alive and flourishing until we, as a nation, can return to that aim.
February 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The new painting job at the FBI Academy is disheartening. (Source: NYT) May we keep cooperativeness, fairness, leadership, compassion, diversity, integrity, stability, emotional maturity, respect, and more alive and flourishing until we, as a nation, can return to that aim.
If you are interested to learn about how you can assist those who are incarcerated with their dharma study by serving as a “study-buddy,” join us this evening for an informational session introducing the partnership of Sukhasiddhi Foundation with the Buddhist Prison Ministry.
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Buddhist Prison Ministry Service Project: Information Session and Celebration — Sukhasiddhi Foundation
Please join us to learn about Sukhasiddhi Foundations’ Service Project in support of the Buddhist Prison Ministry’s innovative program to bring access to the dharma to those in prison. Learn how you c...
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January 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you are interested to learn about how you can assist those who are incarcerated with their dharma study by serving as a “study-buddy,” join us this evening for an informational session introducing the partnership of Sukhasiddhi Foundation with the Buddhist Prison Ministry.
tinyurl.com/yck4k9sc
tinyurl.com/yck4k9sc
Beautiful foggy morning.
January 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Beautiful foggy morning.
This week, while teaching the 12 Deeds of the Buddha, the 9th Deed—subduing the maras—stood out as a relevant daily-life reminder to draw upon strength and clarity to focus on the broader context and more consequential political actions, rather than the continual flow of disturbing distractions.
January 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This week, while teaching the 12 Deeds of the Buddha, the 9th Deed—subduing the maras—stood out as a relevant daily-life reminder to draw upon strength and clarity to focus on the broader context and more consequential political actions, rather than the continual flow of disturbing distractions.
As we cross this threshold today:
“What if our mistaken perception of a solid world of self and other could give way to a recognition that all we experience is a magical, rainbow-like dance of awakened mind that we have the capacity to participate consciously in creating?”
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“What if our mistaken perception of a solid world of self and other could give way to a recognition that all we experience is a magical, rainbow-like dance of awakened mind that we have the capacity to participate consciously in creating?”
tinyurl.com/3z5jxey6
The Playful Dance of Awakened Mind
Lama Döndrup Drölma on the illusory nature of phenomena and how we can wake up to reality’s true nature via the body-mind connection.
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January 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
As we cross this threshold today:
“What if our mistaken perception of a solid world of self and other could give way to a recognition that all we experience is a magical, rainbow-like dance of awakened mind that we have the capacity to participate consciously in creating?”
tinyurl.com/3z5jxey6
“What if our mistaken perception of a solid world of self and other could give way to a recognition that all we experience is a magical, rainbow-like dance of awakened mind that we have the capacity to participate consciously in creating?”
tinyurl.com/3z5jxey6
A great preview to a course that I will be teaching on the Prajnaparamita Sutras beginning on Sunday, January 19th. For more info: www.sukhasiddhi.org/dharmadeepdive
For #ManuscriptMonday, a return to the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in 8,000 lines, here in an illuminated 11th-century Indian palm leaf manuscript.
It's amply described, together with many contextualizing objects, in an essay published in Project Himalayan Art
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It's amply described, together with many contextualizing objects, in an essay published in Project Himalayan Art
rubinmuseum.org/projecthimal...
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January 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A great preview to a course that I will be teaching on the Prajnaparamita Sutras beginning on Sunday, January 19th. For more info: www.sukhasiddhi.org/dharmadeepdive
If you are looking for community & personalized guidance in embodying the bodhisattva path, there are openings in the Bodhi Program; the 2nd in Sukhasiddhi Foundation’s 5 program curriculum. A new cycle of teaching material for 2025 is beginning. For more info: sukhasiddhi.org/programs/bodhi-program
January 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you are looking for community & personalized guidance in embodying the bodhisattva path, there are openings in the Bodhi Program; the 2nd in Sukhasiddhi Foundation’s 5 program curriculum. A new cycle of teaching material for 2025 is beginning. For more info: sukhasiddhi.org/programs/bodhi-program
January 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here is my brief blog post offering a glimpse into a recent pilgrimage to Bhutan. Such an extraordinary country and sacred land. bit.ly/3Dw3Qxg
Bhutan Pilgrimage: Reflections by Lama Döndrup — Sukhasiddhi Foundation
Pilgrimage in Bhutan was an extraordinary blessing. Though this was my first visit, I felt a deep sense of coming home as the plane descended into Paro. Having spent time on pilgrimage in India and Ti...
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December 26, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Here is my brief blog post offering a glimpse into a recent pilgrimage to Bhutan. Such an extraordinary country and sacred land. bit.ly/3Dw3Qxg
Sukhasiddhi Foundation has embarked on a partnership with the remarkable efforts of Buddhist Prison Ministry to bring the wisdom of the dharma to those who are incarcerated. Check out our blog for more details and learn how to volunteer: bit.ly/4guPOum
Buddhist Prison Ministry is the official service project of Sukhasiddhi Foundation — Sukhasiddhi Foundation
Sukhasiddhi Foundation is thrilled to partner with the remarkable efforts of Buddhist Prison Ministry to bring the wisdom of the dharma to those who are incarcerated. This ministry grew out of the exp...
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December 24, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Sukhasiddhi Foundation has embarked on a partnership with the remarkable efforts of Buddhist Prison Ministry to bring the wisdom of the dharma to those who are incarcerated. Check out our blog for more details and learn how to volunteer: bit.ly/4guPOum
Solstice blessings! May the return of the light illuminate our deepest aspirations and bring them to manifestation.
December 22, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Solstice blessings! May the return of the light illuminate our deepest aspirations and bring them to manifestation.
Enjoying Jigme’s sweet company on this first day of the holiday break.
December 21, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Enjoying Jigme’s sweet company on this first day of the holiday break.
Reposted by Lama Döndrup Drolma (Jennifer Grant)
NEW Journal of Tibetan Literature Issue is available! Thanks @andrewquintman.bsky.social. You can read an article about publishing by Nikko Odiseos from @shambhala-pubs.bsky.social, as well as Karma Phuntsho: www.journaloftibetanliterature.org/index.php/jtl
Journal of Tibetan Literature
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December 16, 2024 at 5:56 PM
NEW Journal of Tibetan Literature Issue is available! Thanks @andrewquintman.bsky.social. You can read an article about publishing by Nikko Odiseos from @shambhala-pubs.bsky.social, as well as Karma Phuntsho: www.journaloftibetanliterature.org/index.php/jtl
The Bay Area rain this morning feels like tears and tribute. Thank you, Zakir. Truly a legend. What a gift you have offered to us. You will be so missed. 🙏🏼
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"Making Music" by Zakir Hussain (with Hari Prasad Chaurasia, John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek).
YouTube video by Oriens
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December 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
The Bay Area rain this morning feels like tears and tribute. Thank you, Zakir. Truly a legend. What a gift you have offered to us. You will be so missed. 🙏🏼
youtu.be/OAQvjlfymf0?...
youtu.be/OAQvjlfymf0?...
A pause in the storm. So in the past couple weeks the San Francisco Bay Area has evaded a tsunami and now a tornado. May our karma continue to unfold in this way! In the meantime, there’s nothing like a rainbow to offer some perspective.
December 14, 2024 at 10:57 PM
A pause in the storm. So in the past couple weeks the San Francisco Bay Area has evaded a tsunami and now a tornado. May our karma continue to unfold in this way! In the meantime, there’s nothing like a rainbow to offer some perspective.
The last steps of the ascent to Machig Labdrön’s cave above Taktsang (Tiger’s Nest) on Election Day. Being there at that time was potent reminder of the power of charnel ground practice as we descended the mountain and heard the election results. #bhutan #pilgrimage
December 13, 2024 at 10:27 PM
The last steps of the ascent to Machig Labdrön’s cave above Taktsang (Tiger’s Nest) on Election Day. Being there at that time was potent reminder of the power of charnel ground practice as we descended the mountain and heard the election results. #bhutan #pilgrimage