At twenty-three, Sera Khandro recounts her journey from a cherished childhood through wandering, hunger and servitude, and the struggle to remain devoted to the Dharma.

Summoned to Adzom Gar in the hope of prolonging Adzom Rinpoche’s life, Sera Khandro reluctantly parts from Drime Özer and describes the sorrow of their separation.

Returning to the community she had once called home, Sera Khandro mourns the deaths of her lama and son, her homelessness and broken relationships, before transforming her grief into renewed devotion to the Dharma.

A poignant and subtly defiant song in which Sera Khandro transforms sorrow, mistreatment and isolation into poetry, with the blue sky as her sole companion.

Three songs by Lelung Zhepe Dorje combining affectionate humour, the unconventional spirituality of the mad yogin and playful reflections on the meaning of his name.

Composed in 1718 amid violent political and religious upheaval in Tibet, this deeply personal song captures the young Lelung Zhepe Dorje’s disenchantment with worldly life, devotion, longing for hidden lands, and urgent yearning for freedom.

This song points to the paradox that mind cannot find its own nature by searching for it, since seeker and sought are not separate.

A mgur of direct “pointing out” in which Sera Khandro dismantles every support of the path, revealing the already-complete unity of emptiness and luminosity.

A song by Tsangnyön Heruka, using the imagery of ocean, waves, and wind to point directly at the nature of mind.

Sera Khandro sang this song at the age of eleven, a month after her mother’s death, following an encounter with a white vulture she recognised as the soul-bird of a ḍākinī.

A Madman’s Meditation Experiences: A Song from Labchi, is a doha sung by Tsangnyön Heruka at the sacred hermitage of Labchi.

This text presents the outer, inner, and secret practice cycles of Zhepe Dorje, transmitted by Lhachik Nyima Zhönu—a protector deity revealed through pure vision—in 1730 and recorded in 1731.