# sowa (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sowa. Page: Feed: --- ## [Who Needs a Man When You’ve Got Medicine: Yuthok the Elder’s Teaching to the Yogini-doctor Dami Mentsün](https://perfumedskull.com/2026/04/14/who-needs-a-man-when-youve-got-medicine-yuthok-the-elders-teaching-to-dami-mentsun/) _2026-04-14 · yesnooraspider · A Perfumed Skull_ Recently, a student from Brazil in our ongoing one-year deep-dive course on the Ngöndro or Foundation practices of the Yuthok Nyingthig tantric Buddhist teachings, which is happening right now through Sowa Rigpa Institute, asked me if I could provide a Continue reading ## [A New Book and Online Course On the Preliminary Practices of the Yuthok Nyingthig](https://perfumedskull.com/2026/02/26/a-new-book-and-online-course-on-the-preliminary-practices-of-the-yuthok-nyingthig/) _2026-02-26 · yesnooraspider · A Perfumed Skull_ Greetings! I realized that I did not announce here the publication of the last book I worked on with Dr Nida Chenagtsang for Sky Press or the release of an interview I did connected with the same book, and so Continue reading ## [Alien Gurus and The Mother of the Soul: On the Etymology of the Tibetan Word Lama and Why More Occultists Should Learn to read Tibetan](https://perfumedskull.com/2025/09/16/alien-gurus-and-the-mother-of-the-soul-on-the-etymology-of-the-tibetan-word-lama-and-why-more-occultists-should-learn-to-read-tibetan/) _2025-09-16 · yesnooraspider · A Perfumed Skull_ I ve written about LAM, the according-to-some extraterrestrial entity which English ritual magician Aleister Crowley is supposed to have contacted, in an earlier article about Tibetan aliens which I shared on this blog before. The term LAM is synonymous with a Continue reading ## [Shut up and Recite! Naropa’s Pith Instruction on Mantra Practice](https://perfumedskull.com/2024/12/25/shut-up-and-recite-naropas-pith-instruction-on-mantra-practice/) _2024-12-25 · yesnooraspider · A Perfumed Skull_ Yesterday, the Naldjor Facebook page, a wonderful resource for texts and images related to Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and Yoga, shared a short text composed by Naropa, the famous Bengali Mahasiddha or greatly accomplished Tantric saint who lived and taught in Continue reading ## [‘The Man with the Turquoise Roof’: Spirits as Patients and how the Father of Tibetan Medicine got his Name](https://perfumedskull.com/2024/10/23/the-man-with-the-turquoise-roof-spirits-as-patients-and-how-the-father-of-tibetan-medicine-got-his-name/) _2024-10-23 · yesnooraspider · A Perfumed Skull_ The Tibetan physician and tantric yogi Yuthok Yönten Gönpo is one of the most important figures in the history of Tibetan medicine or Sowa Rigpa, ‘The Science of Healing’ (Yuthok is pronounced a bit like the English words you tock . Continue reading