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Karma Tsewang Drolma is a Buddhist Bodhisattva, who has devoted her life to help others achieve enlightenment to stop the cycle of Samsara.

She belongs to the Buddhist Family Lineage of Karma Kagyu. Amoghasiddhi is the lord of the the 5th Buddha Family House. She is a trained death doula practitioner, as well as a skilled teacher in matters of peaceful death and dying in Mahayana Buddhism. She follows the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and is affiliated with Palpung Changchub Dargye Ling, where she took her Bodhisattva vows with Venerable Choje Lama Rabsang, under the His Holiness 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje.

A bodhisattva commences on a spiritual path involving the developing of six virtues: giving (dāna), morality (śīla), patience (ksānti), vigor (vīrya), meditation (dhyāna), and wisdom (prajñā).

“The meditator who enters this path, the Mahayana path, the path of the Great Vehicle, then proceeds through the five paths and the ten bhumis according to sutra. If he is practicing tantra, highest yoga tantra, there are the five paths, but he doesn’t have to proceed through the ten bhumis, accumulating merit for three countless great eons, as explained in the Paramitayana path.

“You can understand from this what the term ‘bodhisattva’ means. Even the bodhisattva who first enters into the path of the Great Vehicle, the Mahayana path, even that practitioner’s attitude is to completely renounce himself and only cherish other sentient beings. This is true for even the new bodhisattva who has just entered the path, who has just actualized bodhichitta.

“Therefore, even if we don’t have time to do those practices or offerings to the Triple Gem, the Buddha Dharma and Sangha – and of course it’s best if we are able to practice everything – but even if we are unable to do it, as we live our everyday life the practice we must do is this one. The best one is to cherish others, to treat others as more precious than ourselves. Even if we can’t respect others, treat others, serve others, with the attitude that they are more precious than we ourselves are, at least we should see others as being as important as ourselves. They should be equal. Other are also as precious as we ourselves are. At least we should have the thought of equanimity, and with the thought of equanimity then we serve others. We respect, serve, help, benefit others.”

- Lama Zopa Rinpoche

"Use problems as ornaments, seeing them as extremely precious, because they make you achieve enlightenment quickly, by getting you to achieve bodhicitta. Experience these problems on behalf of all sentient beings, giving all happiness to sentient beings. This is the ornament."

- Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Amoghasiddhi, embodies the revelation of the primordial awareness that accomplishes all actions, which is attained through the transformation of the five sense consciousnesses and the perfect purification of the affliction of jealousy. The essence of jealousy is contrary to the accomplishment of benefit. A jealous person is naturally one not able to perform actions for the benefit of others. If, however, the jealousy is pacified, the primordial awareness that accomplishes all actions is perfected. Through this awareness all actions and enlightened activities can be performed exactly in the right way and without hindrance. Due to this activity Amoghasiddhi (Tib. don yod grub pa) is the One Who Accomplishes What Is Meaningful. Since it is his nature to accomplish the benefit of all sentient beings, the fifth lord of the five buddha families embodies the primordial awareness that accomplishes all actions.

Palpung Changchub Dargyeling is a Karma Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist Centre under the spiritual guidance of His Holiness Guru Vajradhara 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa.

The Karma Kagyu lineage is known as the lineage of practice and oral transmission and it is famous for its many realised yogis and masters. The lineage has remained unbroken since the time of Buddha. The spiritual head of the lineage is His Holiness 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje.