Elizabeth McDougal: Gebchak Yoginis, Part Three

Today’s episode is the final part of three parts

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:49 Signs, visions, dreams

00:12:00 Protector land spirits

00:16:00 Tests, conceptual collapse and faith

00:20:00 Meditation boxes

0023:30 Sky burial

00:28:00 Sri Lanka vipassana reform

00:29:30  Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok and Larung Gar

00:32:00 Modernity, realization and tacit knowledge

00:39:00 Old world preservation

00:43:50 Yidam neuroscience and dilution

00:46:00 Changes in education system

00:49:00 Yogini tulkus and titles

00:57:00 The Gebchak way, peer-pressure and self-responsibility

01:03:00 Becoming a translator

01:07:00 Disrobing

01:10:00 Historical rarity of terms Rigpa and dzogchen

01:12:00 Character of yoginis and aspirations

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Listen to Part One here:

On Gebchak's History & Yogic Activity in the Realm of the Meditators https://oliviaclementine.com/elizabet...

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Listen to Part Two here:

On Embodied Practitioners of Tsa-lung Inner Fire & Dzogchen

https://oliviaclementine.com/elizabeth-mcdougal-gebchak-yoginis-part-two/

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Podcast website & transcripts

https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts

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About Elizabeth

Elizabeth McDougal, known also as Tenzin Chozom, grew up in Western Canada and then trained as a Buddhist nun in India and on the Tibetan Plateau for seventeen years. Towards the end of her time as a nun – she studied a Masters of Indian philosophy at Banaras Hindu University and then a PhD (2021) at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the modernisation of Tibetan Buddhist practice lineages and on pedagogy as a crucial bridge in translating pre-modern wisdom traditions to the modern world. Elizabeth currently lives in Australia with her human and animal family where she lectures at Nan Tien Institute in applied Buddhist studies. She continues to serve as a Tibetan-to-English translator for Gebchak Wangdrak Rinpoche and other practice lineage lamas. Elizabeth published a book in 2024 called “The Words and World of Gebchak Nunnery: Tantric Meditation in Context.”

Images included:

1: Of two Gebchak yoginis by Jerome Raphalen

2: Yoginis looking out in ceremony to a sacred feminine vulva form in the landscape