Drala Jong An interview with Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Q What will Drala Jong offer to non Buddhists?

R It will offer something quite surprising. Vajrayana—or essential vajrayana—is an area in which people are already involved whether they know or not. Vajrayana is there in romantic relationships and in the Arts. Vajrayana is there in all forms of creativity and in all human endeavours. We would make that obvious to people by speaking on an essential level about whatever interests them in life. This will be especially important to people involved with the Arts – but every area of life is open to being informed by essential vajrayana.

http://drala-jong.blogspot.com/2010/12/drala-jong-interview.html

A contemporary gö kar chang lo terma

"Antonio Terrone recently completed a most interesting PhD thesis on the current status of the gö kar chang lo’i dé (gos dkar lcang lo’i sde—ngakpas) in Kham and Golok (eastern parts of the culturally-Tibetan region).

Aspects of particular interest are the revelation of new termas that establish the authenticity of the gos dkar lcang lo tradition, and the political relationship of yogic Nyingma with the Chinese authority."


http://ngakpa-update.org/antonio-terrone-gos-dkar-lcang-lo-terma


https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/1887/14644/5/Summary.pdf

An Introduction to the White Sangha of Ngakpas and Ngakmos

"Monks and nuns renounce worldly life, emphasising the observance of celibacy, an abstinence from alcohol and meat and so on. Ngakmas and Ngakpas rely on internal renunciation rather than on external renunciation. We try to transmute our everyday life-circumstances as the means of practice. Relationships with one's partner, family, friends and colleagues at work are all regarded as the very basis of liberation and every facet of life-circumstances provides workable ground for practice."

http://www.nyingma.com/artman/publish/ngakpa_intro.shtml