Lama Norlha (Chokling)

Kyechok Tsulzang. Courtesy of Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche.

Lama Norlha or Guru's Wealth Deity (Tib. བླ་མ་ནོར་ལྷ་, Wyl. bla ma nor lha) is a wealth practice from the Chokling Tersar, related to the Tukdrup Barché Künsel cycle. The main deity is Kyechok Tsulzang, one of the Twelve emanations of Guru Rinpoche.

Texts

• The Heart of the Matter, A Lineage Prayer for the Excellent Vase of Jewels Wealth Practice, by Karmé Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé (ནོར་སྒྲུབ་རིན་ཆེན་བུམ་བཟང་གི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས་དོན་འདུས་སྙིང་པོ་བཞུགས་སོ་, nor sgrub rin chen bum bzang gi brgyud 'debs don 'dus snying po)
  • English translation: The Heart of the Matter, A Lineage Prayer for the Excellent Vase of Jewels Wealth Practice, Samye Translations, 2023 (trans. by Laura Swan and Oriane Lavolé, ed. Libby Hogg and Stefan Mang).
  • Colophon: Khenpo Ratna wrote this at the behest of bhikṣhu Karma Drubgyü Tsultrim Yeshe, who said that something of the kind was needed. Vijayantu. Auspiciousness!
• . . . , by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (གུ་རུ་སྐྱེས་མཆོག་ཚུལ་བཟང་གི་ནོར་སྒྲུབ་རིན་ཆེན་བུམ་བཟང་གི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས་བྱིན་རླབས་འདོད་དགུའི་ཆར་འབེབ་, gu ru skyes mchog tshul bzang gi nor sgrub rin chen bum bzang gi brgyud 'debs byin rlabs 'dod dgu'i char 'beb) (2p)
• The Appended Details for Summoning:, by Khenpo Ratna (Wyl. 'gugs pa'i zur 'debs)
  • English translation: See within The Concise Excellent Vase of Jewels The Appended Details for Summoning:, Samye Translations (trans. Monica Thunder, ed. Stefan Mang and Libby Hogg), 2024.
  • Colophon: This was written by the treasure revealer’s disciple, Ratna, at the request of the virtuous Geshé Pema Sachu when I was thinking about writing an additional insert. Jayantu—victory!
• A Gentle Rain of Gemlike Attainment from the Clouds of a Perfect Age, Descent of Blessings for the Practice of Lama Norlha, by Karmé Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé (བླ་མ་ནོར་ལྷའི་བྱིན་འབེབས་རྫོགས་ལྡན་སྤྲིན་གྱི་དངོས་གྲུབ་ནོར་བུའི་གྲུ་ཆར་བཞུགས, bla ma nor lha'i byin 'bebs rdzogs ldan sprin gyi dngos grub nor bu'i gru char)
  • English translation: A Gentle Rain of Gemlike Attainment from the Clouds of a Perfect Age, Descent of Blessings for the Practice of Lama Norlha, Samye Translations (trans. Monica Thunder, ed. Stefan Mang and Libby Hogg), 2024.
  • Colophon: At the behest of the venerable virtuous friend, Sönam Lhagyal, a lord who holds an ocean of qualities of scripture and reasoning, and who said that something like this was needed, I, Khenpo Karma Ratna, composed this during the waxing of the moon in the middle month of winter. May it be virtuous!
• The Concise Excellent Vase of Jewels, A Wealth Practice of Kyechok Tsülzang from The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller Of All Obstacles, revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa, compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé and arranged by the Fourth Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche (བླ་མའི་ཐུགས་གྲུབ་བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་གྱི་ནོར་སྒྲུབ་རིན་ཆེན་བུམ་བཟང་བསྡུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ, bla ma'i thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel las nor sgrub rin chen bum bzang)
  • English translation: The Concise Excellent Vase of Jewels, A Wealth Practice of Kyechok Tsülzang from The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller Of All Obstacles, translated by Samye Translations 2023, (trans. Laura Swan and Oriane Lavolé, ed. Libby Hogg and Stefan Mang).
  • Colophon: This was arranged on a Friday, on Medicine Buddha day, the eighth day of the Tibetan month, in the waxing moon phase of the second month of autumn (based on the traditions of Kalachakra, medicine, and Tibetan, Indian and Mongolian astrology), in the female Water Sheep year, at Pal Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling. It was arranged by the fourth Tsiké Chokling incarnation, the mantradharin Mingyur Dewé Dorjé, a descendant of the divine Tsang clan who holds both the family and spiritual lineages of the Chokling Tersar. Sarva mangalaṃ—may all be auspicious!
• Cloud-Banks of Everything Desirable, The Wealth-Deity Smoke Offering from The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles, by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé (བླ་མའི་ཐུགས་སྒྲུབ་བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་ལས། བླ་མ་ནོར་ལྷའི་བསང་མཆོད་དགོས་འདོད་སྤྲིན་ཕུང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །, bla ma'i thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel las: bla ma nor lha'i bsang mchod dgos 'dod sprin phung)
  • English translation: Cloud-Banks of Everything Desirable, The Wealth-Deity Smoke Offering from The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles', Samye Translations, 2023 (trans. Laura Swan and Peter Woods, ed. Libby Hogg).
  • Colophon: Entreated by the great treasure-revealer guru, the regent of Padmasambhava, protector of the degenerate age, who placed his jewel crown upon my head, I, Pema Garwang Dewé Dorje, one who displays the mere appearance of a tantric practitioner, wrote this at Pelpung, the retreat place at sacred Tsadra Rinchen Drak. May virtue and excellence increase! Sarva maṅgalaṃ.
• Gathering the Siddhis of Fortune, A Fulfilment Practice for Lama Norlha, by Karmé Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé (བླ་མ་ནོར་ལྷའི་སྐོང་བ་ཕྱྭ་གཡང་དངོས་གྲུབ་འཁྱིལ་བ, bla ma nor lha'i skong ba phya g.yang dngos grub 'khyil ba)
  • English translation: Gathering the Siddhis of Fortune, A Fulfilment Practice for Lama Norlha, translated by Samye Translations 2023, (trans. Laura Swan and Oriane Lavolé, ed. Libby Hogg and Stefan Mang).
  • Colophon: At the behest of Namgyel, the caretaker of the Lhodrang mountain cave, this was composed in the Zhamar Dharma Camp by the vinaya-holder Ratna. May it be auspicious! Sarvasiddhi puṣṭim kuru oṃ. Mangalaṃ.
• . . . , by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (ཐུགས་སྒྲུབ་བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་ལས་བླ་མ་ནོར་ལྷའི་སྐོང་བ་འདོད་འབྱུང་ནོར་བུའི་གཏེར་འབྱེད་, thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel las bla ma nor lha'i skong ba 'dod 'byung nor bu'i gter 'byed) (3p)
• A Clarifying Ornament Called Heap of Jewels, Extracted from the Compendium of Activities of the Guru's Wealth Deity, from Accomplishing the Guru’s Wisdom Mind, Dispeller Of All Obstacles, by Pema Garwang Lodrö Tayepé Dé (Wyl. thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel las: bla ma nor lha'i las tshogs rnams khol phyungs gsal byed kyis brgyan pa rin chen spungs pa) (19p)
• The Jewel Net, a Sādhana for the Treasure Vase of Auspiciousness Connected with the Excellent Vase of Jewels Wealth Practice, from Accomplishing the Guru’s Wisdom Mind, Dispeller Of All Obstacles, a Khyentsé tradition text [?] (Wyl. bla ma'i thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel las: nor sgrub rin chen bum zang dang 'brel ba'i bkra shis gter bum sgrub thabs rin chen drwa ba ) (51p)
• Wish-fulfilling Excellence and Goodness, Creating Harmony Through the Guru's Wealth Deity, from Accomplishing the Guru’s Wisdom Mind, Dispeller Of All Obstacles, by Pema Künkhyab Yeshe Nyingpo (Wyl. bla ma'i thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel las: bla ma nor lha la brten nas mtshun bcos dge legs 'dod 'byung) (21p)
• Summoning Ancestral Prosperity Through Lama Norlha, by Karmé Khenpo Rinchen Dargyé (བླ་མ་ནོར་ལྷའི་ཕ་མཚུན་གཡང་འགུགས་བཞུགས་སོ, bla ma nor lha'i pha mtshun g.yang 'gugs)
  • English translation: Summoning Ancestral Prosperity Through Lama Norlha, Samye Translations, 2024 (trans. Monica Thunder; ed. Stefan Mang, Lowell Cook and Libby Hogg).
  • Colophon: This emerged from the waves of thought of an old monk who upholds the Vinaya. May virtue and excellence abound!

Empowerment Text

• A Bundle of Jewels, the Empowerment Ritual for Guru Kyechok Tsulzang, the Wealth Deity of The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller Of All Obstacles, by Tsewang Norbu (Wyl. bla ma'i thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel las: bla ma nor lha skyes mchog tshul bzang gi dbang chog nor bu'i chun po) (29p)

Tibetan texts for the Nordrup Rinchen Bumzang cycle at the Rinchen Terdzo website

Practices Held in Rigpa Centres

• Lerab Ling, summer 2003, drupchen led by Neten Chokling Rinpoche and Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche
• Australia, 2018, with Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche