Dr. Sarah Jacoby: Auspicious Connections (རྟེན་འབྲེལ་), Treasure Revelation & Sera Khandro

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:00 On translating Sera Khandro’s autobiography and what makes her particular autobiography so unique.

00:05:00 Human creativity coming out of interdependence and inter-relationality.

00:13:00 Prophetic visions with dakinis, khandro-ma and non-human consorts, and significance of tendrel in terma, treasure revelation. 

00:18:00 More on earth and mind treasure including an example from Sera Khandro’s autobiography. 

00:25:00 Climate crisis and relating with the earth.

00:28:00 Metaphors in Sera Khandro’s writing on joy and grief, and great love.

00:38:00 Linguistic universes of Tibetan and English, and how that affects the interpretations of translations, including words like enlightenment, lord, sin, inseparability and equality.

00:45:00 A story Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche told about his first hand experience with his teacher Sera Khandro.

 

LINKS

Previous conversation with Dr. Jacoby on Love & Liberation, Writings of Sera Khandro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmr0pBJd70

Lecture with Dr. Jacoby through Boston University on Interdependent Personhood and Relational Ethics: A Tibetan Perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg745EOXzcQ

Podcast

https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts

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