Lama Tsultrim embarks on a Nyensa Pilgrimage in India, Sikkim, and Nepal. In the Chöd lineage, the practitioner goes to places that are frightening, lonely, or sacred. Traveling to the mouth of Khandro Sang Phug in South Sikkim, known as the ‘Secret Cave of the Dakini’, a sacred location to Guru Rinpoche. It is the southernmost cave of the four sacred caves that surround Tashi Ding, the center of the Sikkimese mandala. 

While deep in the cave, memories of Chiara, Lama Tsultrim’s daughter who died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and grief from the recent death of her beloved husband David, flood her mind. ‘I took out my drum, bell, and kangling (thighbone trumpet) and began the Pharchangma Chöd from Dzinpa Rangdröl working with all the emotions that were arising intensely.’ Read the full article published in the Melong newsletter written by Lama Tsultrim here.