Welcome

"Joyously Celebrating our Diversity in Blessed Unity"

Formerly located in Australia, the Diamond Lotus Centre is now temporarily located in Ersnirgrantha, south-eastern Tibet. The office serves as the international headquarters for all Assembly members called into the Diamond Lotus Covenant.

The Centre introduces many Essenes for the first time to the systematic study of of the various cultural expressions of the One Assembly, especially within an expression of the Faith as given to Abraham in Yanduah and developed into a system by H.H. Lama Yeshe Yaza before His earthly passing in 2008, who also served as the Thirty-fourth Zijiyana for the Zijiyana Community. Teachings include practice and meditation on the True Dharma, the Second and Third Pillars of our religion including its teachings, meditations, and practices.

The activity of the Centre focuses on the teaching and study of the Blessed and Sacred Sutras and the Tantra and Terma texts as expounded in the Diamond Lotus Tradition. The focus of the Centre is the training of students in the teachings and practices of the Diamond Lotus Way, especially emphasizing the view, meditation, and practice of Dzogchen. Students not only study the original texts in the native languages and in English translation for Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen, but also receive detailed instruction and expert supervision in the meditative traditions associated with these various spiritual texts. Students, over the course of their studies with the Centre, receive complete authentic instructions, transmission, and initiations in the traditional Shemishqo-Tibetan and Shemishqo-Vedic manner. Parallel to instruction and study, there is a series of intensive meditation practice sessions of varying durations.

Shemishqo Institute for Translation and Research

Translations of all or of salient parts of these texts will eventually be made into English and other Western languages. At the Shemishqo Institute for Translation and Research (originally located in Laos, now in the northern part of the United States) there is the teaching of original language and literature in general for those who have graduated from the Purple Lotus initiations of the Monastic University. But a special emphasis is placed in pursuing in depth the meditation practices of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, a tradition that our School shares with the Bon and Nyingmapa schools of Tibetan Buddhism. All three schools regard Dzogchen as the highest path to enlightenment and liberation from samsara. The Shemishqo Institute for Translation and Research also operates the Committee for Translation of Sefashah and Related Texts.

Relevant texts from all Tibetan schools are collected and studied as permitted through Third Pillar.

Cultural Museum for Traditional and Contemporary Arts

The Cultural Museum, now located in North America, seeks to preserve and develop in a creative fashion the arts and sciences of ancient Tibet and Burma, such as thangka painting, sculpture, calligraphy, poetics, music, dance, theatre, herbal medicine, and Ziji (Dzi) healing rituals. This provides an opportunity to explore the contributions these traditional arts can make to contemporary culture. Creative development of the arts from various perspectives, traditional and contemporary, is encouraged.

Institute for the Study of Eastern and Vedic Medicine

Institute for the Study of Eastern and Vedic Medicine (formerly called the "Institute for the Study of Eastern Medicine") seeks to discover new ways in which the teachings and practices of the ancient Shemishqo healing traditions and practices can contribute to healing both the individual human being and the natural environment of our planet earth. In this respect, special emphasis is placed on the many connections between Bonpo, Nyingmapa, and Native American traditions since there have been several Shemishqo who have travelled to the West and mingled with the Native American tribes. There is a connectivity between Tibetans and Native Americans and the Shemishqo that is studied in the Burmese-Aramaic Terma.