Garland of Ketakas is a history of the Barom Kagyu, one of the four original lineages stemming directly from Gampopa. This book describes both this lineage's succession over the last thousand years and its short visionary lineage, which arose in the 19th Century through the visionary encounter of Terchen Barway Dorje and the dakini Akahayogini.

The Laughter of Supreme Secret Siddhi describes the life of the dakini Atroma, who lived hundreds of years ago bout reappeared in visionary reality as Akahayogini.

Tibetan text included.
Garland of Ketaka: A Concise History of the Glorious Barom Kagyu, and The Laughter of Great Secret Siddhi; Eighth Aten Puntsok of Kyodrak; Kunzang Palchen Ling Publications; 134 pages; $22.95

The present Bardor Tulku Rinpoche was born in 1950 in Kham, East Tibet. The third incarnation of Barway Dorje, he was recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa at a very early age. Rinpoche was quite young when he and his family left East Tibet on a journey that took them first to Lhasa, then Tsurphu, and onward to Drikung, the home of Rinpoche's grandparents.

With the Chinese communist occupation of Tibet, the political and social conditions worsened, so Rinpoche's family, a party of thirteen, set out toward India. They traveled through Kong Po and crossed the Himalayan mountain range, over 17,000-foot passes, and then descended into the jungles of Assam, India. It was there, when Rinpoche was still only nine years old, that one after another of his family members died. Rinpoche set out with a twelve-year-old friend and a group of other Tibetans.

At the township of Bomdila, where the borders of Tibet, Bhutan, and Assam meet, a bombing raid dispersed the group. Rinpoche and his friend fled the attack and traveled westward to Darjeeling. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa arranged for Rinpoche to be brought to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, where he began his formal training as a tulku.

After completing many years of study and practice, Bardor Tulku Rinpoche accompanied the Sixteenth Karmapa on his world tours from 1974 to 1976. In 1976 His Holiness requested that Rinpoche remain in New York. Until the Mead Mountain House, in Woodstock, New York, was purchased in early 1978, Rinpoche stayed in New York City and in Putnam County. The Woodstock property was purchased to establish His Holiness Karmapa's seat in North America. After the groundbreaking ceremony in May 1982, Bardor Rinpoche directed the construction plans and activities, working every day to build the monastery.

The first Barway Dorje, born in 1836, was the ninth incarnation of Nupchen Sangye Yeshe, one of the twenty-five great disciples of Guru Padmasambhava. Throughout his life, the first Barway Dorje was guided by Guru Rinpoche. As a young man, he had a vision in which he received empowerment from Guru Rinpoche and the name "Great Bliss Blazing Dorje." He is thereafter known as Barway Dorje (Bardor).

In the year 2000, Rinpoche founded the Raktrul Foundation, independent of KTD, to preserve the lineage of the Barway Dorje practices and to establish the Institute of Buddhist Studies at Raktrul Monastery in Nangchen, Tibet.

Rinpoche lives with his wife, Sonam Chotso, and their three daughters, Karma, Chime, and Rigdzin, near KTD in Woodstock, New York, USA.

Bardor Tulku Ripoche has four publications, Teaching on the Tashi Prayer, The Kagyu Lineage and the Activity of the Karmapas, The Practice of Green Tara, and Living in Compassion.

Precious Essence, The Inner Autobiography of the First Barway Dorje, translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.

CONTENTS: Garland of Ketaka
GARLAND OF KETAKA			iv
		Vajradhara	1
		Tilopa	1
		Naropa	2
		Marpa	2
		Milarepa	5
		Gampopa	6
		Barompa	8
		Tishri Repa	9
		Sangwa Repa Karpo	13
		Lumey Dorje	14
		Jangchup Shonnu	15
		Tongnak Repa	16
		The Eighteen Divisions	16
	The Long Lineage		21
		Repa Tsondru Pal	21
		Kyodrak Drakpa Gyaltsen	22
		The Dharma Lord Sonam Zangpo	23
		The Dharma Lord Rinchen Zangpo	26
		Sonam Wangchuk	26
		Cho Ozer	27
		Kunga Nyingpo	27
		Kunga Gyamtso	27
		Tendzin Zangpo	28
		Karma Yeshe	29
		Dondam Nyingpo	30
	The Short Lineage		33
	The Combined Lineage		57
	TIBETAN		59
THE LAUGHTER OF GREAT SECRET SIDDHI			103
	The First Those Four Parts: The Greatness of Her Family		105
	The Second and Third Parts: How She Established a Connection With Authentic Gurus and Displayed Signs of Siddhi		107
	The Fourth Part: Her Parinirvana		115
	TIBETAN		117