In our journey of spiritual growth and well-being, we often seek practices that bring harmony and balance to our lives. Namkha, a profound tool rooted in Tibetan Astrology, holds a key to unlocking the healing power within us. A wisdom gift of the ancient Tibetan world, Namkha can help us achieve inner harmony, promote well-being, and foster spiritual growth that we seek in our modern lives.

Discovering Namkha and the Five Elements

Namkha is a sacred practice that harmonizes the Five Elements—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—within our energetic makeup, as guided by Tibetan Astrology. These elements represent different aspects of our being, and imbalances between them can manifest as physical, emotional, and spiritual dis-ease. Harmonization is achieved through Namkha by following a specific, sacred method of contruction and empowerment by a dedicated and authorised practitioner. When empowered by mantras and meditation, a well-constructed Namkha functions to harmonize any conflict within the energetic pattern of the individual, bringing immediate and long-term benefit.

Unlocking the Healing Power

Namkha’s healing power transcends the physical realm. It operates on the energetic level, addressing the underlying causes of disharmony before they manifest as physical ailments. By harmonizing the conflicting elements within our energetic pattern, Namkha helps restore balance and promotes well-being on a profound level.

Namkha’s transformative influence extends beyond physical healing. It positively impacts our mental and emotional well-being, guiding us toward inner peace and harmony. By harmonizing the energetic aspects of our lives, Namkha paves the way for spiritual growth and nurtures our connection to the divine.

By embracing Namkha and its healing power, we embark on a transformative journey toward spiritual well-being and harmony. Namkha offers us a profound opportunity to explore the interconnectedness of our being, fostering a deep sense of balance and unity within ourselves and the world around us.

If you’re interested in diving deeper into the practical aspects of Namkha calculation and its harmonizing function, further resources are available on this website for you to explore, namely:

Namkha Explained

How Namkha Heals

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I was saddened to hear of the passing of the beloved Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche.

I happened to see Rinpoche during his visit in London in the early 2000s, when I was still very new to Buddhism.

After my eye-opening trip to Tibet and Nepal in 2006, I started to mingle with the London sanghas at Rigpa, Palyul and Kagyu Samye. It was at the Kagyu Samye Dzong, which I was frequenting, when Thrangu Rinpoche visited. Althought I was only just becoming familiar with Tibetan Buddhism, my devotion was strong, and I was able to receive my very first empowerment from Rinpoche, the lovely Green Tara, and consequetly took part in the 24-hour Green Tara puja held at the London temple. My later visit to the beautiful Namo Buddha monastery of Thrangu Rinpoche in Nepal was another powerful experience full of blessings and inspiration.

Although I eventually settled as a nyingmapa, the kagyu schools have always been close to my heart in many ways. The Green Tara empowerment of Thrangu Rinpoche is something I actualize through my practice of Green Tara Mandala Namkha. Thanks to Rinpoche’s blessings and inspiration, the manifestation of Green Tara in the form of a Namkha has benefited many people around the world. I am forever grateful to Thrangu Rinpoche for setting this in motion.

The 49 days of the Guru’s passing is a special period for students to mingle with the teacher’s unbounded enlightened mind, pray for his swift rebirth and actualize his teachings. I’m honouring Thrangu Rinpoche at this time by creating Green Tara Namkha during this time. I invite you to request a namkha made at this time for special blessings.

As an astrological remedy, Harmonizing Namkha is prescribed as a way to harmonize conflicting aspects within your astrological pattern, according to Tibetan Astrology. But Namkha also has the important function to dispell the unfavourable influence of the current year. The Water Rabbit (or Hare) year of 2023 may be a perilous year for many birth-years, to lesser or greater extend.

KEG – YEAR OF THE RETURNING ANIMAL

First of all, those born in the Rabbit year are going to experience an unfavourable year. If you are born a Rabbit, this is the year of the returning animal (Tib. keg) for you. Based on the Tibetan calendar, the Rabbit year influence lasts from February 21, 2023 to February 9, 2024. In the Chinese calendar, the period is January 22, 2023 – February 9, 2024. If you are celebrating 60th birthday in that period, you were born in Water Hare year of the previous metreng (i.e. 60-year astrological cycle) and this year is particularly unfavourable. It also goes for those celebrating their 84th, 72th, 48th, 36th, 24th, and 12th birthday in that period.

DUNSUR – YEAR OF OPPOSITE ANIMAL

Bird (Rooster) is the opposite sign to Rabbit, and this is also considered unfavourable. This includes those celebrating their 78th, 66th, 42nd, 30th, 18th, and 6th birthday.

BABY BORN IN WATER HARE

Any new baby would be so lucky to get equipped with a Namkha! In fact, there are a few babies in the world now who have had their namkha made for them at birth, benefitting from having their pattern harmonized from the very start. It has been most satisfying for me to be able to serve them and their families in that way, and I highly recommend a Namkha for your baby or child.

If you are interested in harmonizing the influence of your birth-year, please get in touch.

Place your request by end of 2022 for Water Rabbit year Namkha.

Dear Namkha Owners,

The New Tibetan year of Male Water Tiger begins on Thursday, March 3, 2022. In the two days in the run-up, cleansing rituals and practices are performed by Tibetan Buddhists to remove inauspiciousness and avert all obstacles of the previous year, in preparation for welcoming in the new year. 

This is also the perfect time to tend to your Namkha. If you’ve had your namkha for a while, you may find it has gathered some dust.

Practitioners with the transmission will, of course, perform the complete Rite for the Empowering the Namkha. But even if you cannot do this, there is an important treatment you should give your namkha as part of keeping it for life. A regular revitalization ensures your namkha remains functional and powerful.

Although Namkha is quite delicate, don’t be afraid to run a brush over it and give it a gentle tap.

To start, get a brush. No special instrument is necessary. An ordinary, soft painint brush from any store will do, as long as it’s new and unused. Take the namkha from its container and start by removing dust from the horizontal areas of your namkha with a gentle stroking motion away from the Namkha. What a satisfying feeling to see the dust particles fly away into the air! I prefer doing this outdoors. You can go on and stroke your namkha gently around any area where dust may be visible. Finally, you may give the Namkha a gentle tap against your palm: If you are right-handed, hold your namkha by its handle with your right hand facing away from you. Hold your left hand open flat and tap the face of your namkha against the outstretched palm. The gentle tap on the soft flat surface will not damage your namkha, but the force of the motion will help remove any dust particles from within the weave.

The next step is to purify and revive your namkha after the gross impurities have been removed. Use pure Tibetan medicinal incense that has been prepared according to recipes in the sacred texts, or burn pure plants and herbs like juniper, sage or lavender. Run your namkha through the smoke, making sure to maintain a safe distance from the fire. You don’t have to smoke your namkha, just run it thought the smoke there and back a few times. You can chant the Namkha mantra or any purification mantra that you can.

You can finish by cleaning the namkha’s container. If you keep your namkha in a vase with raw rice or sand to keep it upright, this is the time to change the contents and wash the vase.

This way, your namkha will be in optimal shape to keep serving you for another year.

It is recommended to tend to your namkha at least once a year and Losar is the best time. You are welcome to do this whenever and as often as you find necessary, though.

If you have had your namkha for a while and you feel it needs a complete revival, you can send it to me for consecration.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Best wishes to you in the New Year of Male Water Tiger. May your Namkha bring you perfect harmony with all its beneficial results!

As an astrological remedy, Harmonizing Namkha is prescribed as a way to harmonize conflicting aspects within your astrological pattern, according to Tibetan Astrology. But Namkha also has the important function to dispell the unfavourable influence of the current year. This year, Water Tiger may be a perilous year for many birth-years, to lesser or greater extend.

Keg – year of the returning animal

First of all, those born in the Tiger year are going to experience an unfavourable year. Tiger is the year of the returning animal (keg) for you. The Tiger year influence lasts between March 3, 2022 to February 21, 2022. If you are celebrating 60th birthday in that period, you were born in Water Tiger year of the previous metreng and the year is particularly unfavourable. It goes for those celebrating their 84th, 72th, 48th, 36th, 24th, and 12th birthday, as well.

Dunsur – year of opposite animal

Monkey is the opposite sign to Tiger, and this is also considered unfavourable. This includes those celebrating their 78th, 66th, 42nd, 30th, 18th, and 6th birthday.

Baby born in Metal Tiger

Any new baby would be so lucky to get equipped with a Namkha! In fact, there are a few babies in the world now who have had their namkha made for them at birth, benefitting from having their pattern harmonized from the very start. It has been most satisfying for me to be able to serve them in that way, and I highly recommend a Namkha for you baby or child.

If you are interested in harmonizing the influence of your birth-year, please get in touch.

Namkhai Norbu’s Namkha is a Tibetan Buddhist practice based on an ancient Tibetan ritual practice and Bön heritage. Namkha means

• the precise method to calculate the pattern based on Tibetan Astrology,
• the method of construction,
• and the consecration ritual with meditation and mantras.

Sacred and functional

Namkha is a mind terma of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, an enlightened master. Namkha is an authentic Buddhist tradition imbued with blessings of Buddha. Your namkha is made with care in the authentic way by an authorised practitioner. The blessing stream of the lineage is intact, so you can trust you are getting a functional, sacred object.

Astrological remedy

Namkha is a sacred object created for you personally to harmonizes conflicts in the Sog, Lu, Wangthang, Lungta, La and the Mewa and Parkha, according to Tibetan and Chinese Astrology, as well as conflicts deriving from astrological influences of the current year. There are always imbalances in every person’s chart, and your astrologer will tell you about yours. Namkha is one of the most effective ways available to harmonize it.

Merit

Namkha is beneficial for you and everyone because it is a source of merit. Especially if you are a Buddhist practitioner, you understand about accumulating merit that you can dedicate. 

Namkha for everyone

Namkha is not only for Buddhists, shamans, meditators or astrologers. The great thing about Namkha is that although it is hard to come by and make, once you have it, it will work for you for the rest of your life without much engagement on your part. It only needs to be treated with respect as a sacred object. Everyone should have their namkha. The more we harmonize our own energies, the more harmonized the world will be. Feel free to gift a namkha to your loved ones.

Namkha not only for persons

Namkha can also be created for anything with a starting date. It is often advised for new ventures, relationships, weddings, business, project etc. to harmonize any obstacles that can derive from astrological conflicts.

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The Bhutanese Buddhism blogger Phub Dorji Wang contacted me about commissioning a namkha. He graciously accepted the namkha as an offering from me for his public service in running his Dharma blog about Tibetan Buddhism and Bhutanese culture.

He wrote on his Facebook timeline in October 2019:

“Today I am very happy and truly blessed to receive a Harmonizing Namkha of my birth sign especially made for me by Madam Zuzana Čerňáková. She sent through a registered post from Czech Republic.

Namkha is a very special harmonizing and protection amulet for an individual. Bhutanese use Namkha intensively in various rituals ceremonies but the one use in amulets is not known since they are enclosed in stitched cloth.

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According to Madam Zuzana, she prepares the Namkha by writing the LAM seed syllable first at the central notch and yellow Earth rhombus is than formed. Harmonization bands are added as per calculation based on individual birth sign and element. Each colour is tied by a knot to the following one, the last one left hanging loose. In the end, when all rhombi are completed, the loose threads are joined by a single Harmonizing Thread, which also represents the LA aspects. LA is the 9th aspect of the Namkha – protection. Mine is a Fire and represented by the red thread that goes around the whole of Namkha. If the Namkha were to be unwound, you’d get a single unbroken thread.

She explained that the namkha of the birth year takes into consideration 8 aspects of the individual calculated on the basis of Element – Animal – Mewa number of the year of birth.

Each aspect is ruled by an element (green Wood, red Fire, yellow Earth, white Metal, blue Water). The central colors of the 8 rhombi represent the 8 aspects of the individual; the coloured bands around them are the “harmonization bands”. If the aspects around the central SOG aspect are in mother-son relationship with it, harmonization bands are wound in mother-son sequence. If they’re in friend-enemy relationship, the harmonization bands are in friend-enemy sequence, until harmonization between them is achieved.

According to her in my Namkha, the body, capacity, lungta and life mewa are in harmony – all happen to be Metal. Metal is in mother-son relationship with my Earth in SOG.
The only conflict to be harmonized is the Fire in Capacity Mewa against the Life Mewa. Otherwise all the other aspects in my pattern are in harmony. Great to know that.

Thank you so much

About Madam Zuzana Cernakova

Madam Zuzana Čerňáková has received the Namkha Rite from late His Holiness Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. She has been making and authenticating Harmonizing Namkhas precisely according to late Rinpoche’s method. She also undertook a personal Namkha retreat to connect with the practice. The result of the retreat fully convinced her of the power of the Namkha. She has been making namkhas tirelessly for her friends and family as well as to satisfy any requests that came from all around the world from both Rinpoche’s students and others feeling drawn to Namkha like me.

With the passing of His Holliness Namkhai Norbu last year she has further intensified the practice, to honour the master from whom she received this practice. She made around 50 namkhas in year 2018. Since the start of 2019 she continued making namkhas when requested, conduct research into the Namkha tradition and history, and expand her Namkha practice.

Apart from the specific Namkhai Norbu namkha, she also create namkhas based on other traditional designs from Tibet, both Bon and Buddhist. Tibetan shamanic namkha tradition has been around for centuries, may be even millennia. With the spread of Buddhism in Tibet from the 8th century, the woven thread cross became incorporated into Buddhist practice and to a certain degree still practiced today.

Her workshop bears the name Pedronma, a derivation of my Tibetan name Pema Drolma.
The woven mandalas she make incorporate the principles of the Buddhist Tantra, which means they are made with a particular activity in mind.

• Power Namkhas produce a specific power of action while they make a nice decoration.

• Medicine Buddha Namkha, for example, is empowered by mantras for powerful healing and protection against disease.

• Five Buddhas Mandalas are designed to produce a specific powerful activity, according to one’s needs and wishes, for example magnetizing action.

• Multipurpose namkha, ideal for Reiki healing

• Bardo Namkhas bless the passage of the deceased and are made in connection with the ritual for liberating the consciousness of the deceased.

• Mini-Namkhas and Pendants are a portable blessing.

• I also create replicas of historical namkhas for unique-art collectors and as exhibits.

Explore the https://namkha.space on this web for a comprehensive overview. She regularly updates her blog, so please subscribe to receive the news.

Namkha is a great gift for the world and us. It’s a powerful Buddhist practice with huge benefits.

According to her blog Namkha is not just a pretty decoration – it’s a functional object. Anyone can attempt to make a namkha, but to give it its power; the finished object needs to be authenticated through a ritual done by a tantric practitioner who has received the practice from an authentic master of the lineage.

Plesae don’t forget to learn more on Namkha. You will gain huge knowledge by visiting the blog, which again I give the link https://namkha.space.”

The Healing Power of Namkha: Going Beyond Physical Symptoms

In the realm of Buddhist healing, we recognize that physical suffering is a result of karmic ripening. Every aspect of our existence and all that we experience are interconnected through cause and effect, known as karma.

The law of karma is a fundamental truth: our present experiences are the outcomes of causes we have set in motion, even spanning across lifetimes. The seeds of karma lie within the subtle mind and when conditions align, they solidify into the five elements and further into matter. This continuous process manifests as our physical bodies, complete with their unique features and imperfections. This intricate cycle is unfolding every second.

Namkha operates on the energetic level, just before matter takes shape and our energetic constitution is affected. Similarly, any Buddhist practice seeks to transform karma. Rather than healing the physical body itself, which represents the visible manifestations and symptoms, Namkha addresses the underlying causes before they materialize.

The direct understanding of the illness’s cause and the extent of karma to be purified lies solely within the enlightened mind. As ordinary beings, we cannot perceive this until we attain Buddhahood. Nevertheless, we trust in the efficacy of Buddhist practices based on the unwavering truth of cause and effect, as taught by the Buddhas.

ASTROLOGICAL REMEDY

Astrological calculations based on your birth date hold significant insights, as your karma determined the specific circumstances of your birth, including the arrangement of the elements. For instance, an astrological pattern may reveal the presence of an autoimmune disease. While Western medicine excels in treating physical injuries, it often falls short in addressing autoimmune conditions beyond symptom management. This is because the root cause of autoimmunity lies in the energetic realm, which allopathic medicine does not fully encompass.

Namkha serves to harmonize the conflicting elements within your energetic pattern that contribute to the autoimmune reactions. By working on the energetic constitution, Namkha facilitates healing at the core level of the illness, on the energy plane.

The impact of Namkha extends beyond the physical realm. Our mental-intellectual faculties, fortune, and life force can either be in harmony or disharmony. Elemental conflicts within these aspects can lead to suffering, ranging from discomfort and worry to severe mental illness. Namkha’s purpose is to restore harmony and promote healing across all facets of our lives. Additionally, in cases where the destructive potential has not yet manifested, Namkha serves as a preventive measure.

If you are interested in delving deeper into the practical aspects of how Namkha is calculated and how its harmonizing function is achieved, I invite you to explore my additional resources.

By embracing the healing power of Namkha, we venture beyond the superficial and address the profound interconnectedness of our being, fostering a holistic path to well-being and harmony.

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With the Tibetan year turning, it’s essential to remember to empower the harmonizing namkhas.

I try to bless my namkhas at least once a month. The ones that are not physically present are blessed by proxy of their images. Blessing is always done in the first half of the lunar month as the moon is waxing and the energies are on the increase. If I have time, I do the longer blessing from the Namkha book by Namkhai Norbu, or I do the shorter version from the Thun book. But at Losar, empowering the namkhas is especially important so a puja can be done, too.

The New Year blessing should be done in the first half of the first Tibetan month, this year it was the period between 16 February and 1 March, 2018. This period is also called Losar Bumgyur Dawa in Tibetan and it’s a very blessed time for any Dharma practice, which commemorates the 15 miraculous deeds that the Buddha performed to convince his rivals, and the result of actions if multiplied by millions. The 15th day (full moon) is called the Day of the Miracles and it fell on the 1 March this year.

The harmonizing namkhas especially need to be done as their function is connected with the birth year of the individual and its relationship with the energies of the current year. Each year has its own energy that influenced the health and fortune aspects of each individual born in different year differently. The harmonizing namkha has been constructed to harmonize the conflicting energies and its function is set in motion by the empowering ritual.  So as the energies of the old year wane and the energies of the New Year start to be felt, it’s important to empower the namkhas for their proper harmonizing function to be maintained.

I do a puja of Mipham’s Shower of Blessings and the complete empowering ritual from the Namkha book, as if the namkhas were brand new. (Remember, you can do the ritual if you’ve received the transmission from a qualified master. )