A Dakini's Counsel
By Sera Khandro
Translated by Christina Monson
Foreword by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Foreword by Sogan Tulku Pema Lodoe
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Snow Lion05/21/2024Pages: 432Size: 5.5 x 8.5ISBN: 9781611808841DetailsSee also: A Reader's Guide to Sera Khandro
Sera Khandro Dewai Dorje was a modern Tibetan Buddhist teacher who single-pointedly pursued a life of Dharma while balancing family life and public teaching. This collection of her advice, prayers, dreams, prophecies, and treasures (terma) is both biographical and instructional. It comes from within the tradition of Dzogchen, replete with practices for resting in the nature of mind. This lineage forms the bedrock of Christina Monson’s own spiritual path, lending a deep intimacy to the translations, which serve as a window into Sera Khandro’s life, teachings, and rich inner experience.RelatedCheck items to add to the cart orAuthor BioSera Khandro (1892–1940) was one of the most prolific Tibetan female authors of the past several centuries. At the age of fifteen, she left her home in Lhasa for eastern Tibet, embarking on a lifetime devoted to her spiritual path—she became a spiritual master, a revealer of ancient hidden teachings, a mystic, a visionary, a writer, a mother, and a vagabond. Her written works and spiritual lineage have been preserved and are now cherished worldwide.CHRISTINA MONSON (1969–2023) was a Buddhist practitioner and teacher and Tibetan language translator and interpreter. She had over thirty years of study, translation, and practice experience in Buddhism beginning with an interest in Asian philosophy as an undergraduate student at Brown University. Later, she focused her studies on Tibetan Buddhism while completing a master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She journeyed to Nepal in 1989 where she met her root guru, Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche, under whose guidance she studied and practiced in periods of intensive retreat for the next twenty-seven years. Chatral Rinpoche first introduced her to the person and treasure lineage of Sera Khandro Dewai Dorje and conferred empowerment, reading transmission, and practice instructions. She spent the last several years of her life translating Sera Khandro’s sheldam (instructions) into English as a Tsadra Foundation translator and scholar, along with teaching and practicing the Dharma.Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse (Khyentse Norbu) is a Tibetan Buddhist lama who travels and teaches internationally and is also an award-winning filmmaker. He is the abbot of several monasteries in Asia and the spiritual director of meditation centers in Vancouver, San Francisco, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Taipei. He is also head of a Buddhist organization called Siddhartha’s Intent.Praise"Christina Monson has gone to great lengths to preserve these most precious teachings and offer Sera Khandro’s wisdom to everyone." —Tulku Pema Wangyal, founder of the Padmakara Translation Group
"A Dakini’s Counsel conveys the feeling of Sera Khandro Dewai Dorje’s melodious verses of essential wisdom advice with a lucidity and immediacy only possible from a translator who has deeply internalized the words on these pages." —Sarah H. Jacoby, author of Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro
"Christina Monson’s eloquent translation, in-depth notes, and introduction delivers these most sublime and profound teachings to us like a divine feast." —Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Feeding Your Demons
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