This is the eighth article in a series on the lineage holders of the Great Perfection, the swiftest and most profound practice that subsumes all others.
"The perfect Buddha is not found in any of the ten directions and four times other than the perfect Buddha which is mind-as-such. Do not seek the Buddha elsewhere."
(From the Secret Nucleus)
During the later part of Zhangton's life, his wife gave birth to a son. She had had a dream of many suns rising in the sky at the time this son was conceived. Upon hearing this, Zhangton predicted that the boy would dispel the darkness obscuring the minds of sentient beings and carry on his lineage–hence he called him Nyimabum, "One Hundred Thousand Suns." There was also a prophecy in the text Penetration of Sound referring to Nyimabum as an emanation of the Lord of Secrets, Vajrapani. From the early age of five, Nyimabum began to receive empowerments and guidance into the most profound levels of spiritual practice from his father, and to Zhangton's great delight he completely mastered them.
During his enthronement at the age of ten, he surprised those gathered for the event by giving a profound teaching on the seventeen tantras, the extraordinary scriptures composed by enlightened beings on the highest level of Great Perfection practice, the instructional category mengag-dhe. Following his enthronement he devoted his entire life to practice. By the time he was twenty, he experienced no difference in his meditation whether formally sitting or involved in daily activity. Thus firmly established in practice, he went on to study the new tantras with the Kagyu master Ngog Gyaltse. Around this time, he took Jomo Gyagar as his consort to accomplish the practice involving the inner qualities of bliss and emptiness.
At the age of twenty-seven, Nyimabum studied the "Three Continua" of the Lamdray (Path and Fruition) cycle with the revered Sakyamaster Khon Dragpa Gyaltsan, whom he served faithfully. He also received instructions in the Chakrasamvara tantra and in the rites of the dharma protector Mahakala. Completely nonsectarian, he continued to study and serve many great gurus of different schools and lineages. He himself later composeda text known as the "Great Exposition of Words and Meaning." Nyimabum passed away in the winter of his fifty-sixth year, amid a gorgeous array of rainbow light canopies. Exotic flowers bloomed out of season, and crystal-like spheres of white, yellow, red, green and blue representing the five Buddha families appeared in the ashes after his cremation.
Wyn Fischel
This is the eighth article in a series on the lineage holders of the Great Perfection, the swiftest and most profound practice that subsumes all others.
"The perfect Buddha is not found in any of the ten directions and four times other than the perfect Buddha which is mind-as-such. Do not seek the Buddha elsewhere."
(From the Secret Nucleus)
During the later part of Zhangton's life, his wife gave birth to a son. She had had a dream of many suns rising in the sky at the time this son was conceived. Upon hearing this, Zhangton predicted that the boy would dispel the darkness obscuring the minds of sentient beings and carry on his lineage–hence he called him Nyimabum, "One Hundred Thousand Suns." There was also a prophecy in the text Penetration of Sound referring to Nyimabum as an emanation of the Lord of Secrets, Vajrapani. From the early age of five, Nyimabum began to receive empowerments and guidance into the most profound levels of spiritual practice from his father, and to Zhangton's great delight he completely mastered them.
During his enthronement at the age of ten, he surprised those gathered for the event by giving a profound teaching on the seventeen tantras, the extraordinary scriptures composed by enlightened beings on the highest level of Great Perfection practice, the instructional category mengag-dhe. Following his enthronement he devoted his entire life to practice. By the time he was twenty, he experienced no difference in his meditation whether formally sitting or involved in daily activity. Thus firmly established in practice, he went on to study the new tantras with the Kagyu master Ngog Gyaltse. Around this time, he took Jomo Gyagar as his consort to accomplish the practice involving the inner qualities of bliss and emptiness.
At the age of twenty-seven, Nyimabum studied the "Three Continua" of the Lamdray (Path and Fruition) cycle with the revered Sakyamaster Khon Dragpa Gyaltsan, whom he served faithfully. He also received instructions in the Chakrasamvara tantra and in the rites of the dharma protector Mahakala. Completely nonsectarian, he continued to study and serve many great gurus of different schools and lineages. He himself later composeda text known as the "Great Exposition of Words and Meaning." Nyimabum passed away in the winter of his fifty-sixth year, amid a gorgeous array of rainbow light canopies. Exotic flowers bloomed out of season, and crystal-like spheres of white, yellow, red, green and blue representing the five Buddha families appeared in the ashes after his cremation.
Wyn Fischel
This is the eighth article in a series on the lineage holders of the Great Perfection, the swiftest and most profound practice that subsumes all others.
"The perfect Buddha is not found in any of the ten directions and four times other than the perfect Buddha which is mind-as-such. Do not seek the Buddha elsewhere."
(From the Secret Nucleus)
During the later part of Zhangton's life, his wife gave birth to a son. She had had a dream of many suns rising in the sky at the time this son was conceived. Upon hearing this, Zhangton predicted that the boy would dispel the darkness obscuring the minds of sentient beings and carry on his lineage–hence he called him Nyimabum, "One Hundred Thousand Suns." There was also a prophecy in the text Penetration of Sound referring to Nyimabum as an emanation of the Lord of Secrets, Vajrapani. From the early age of five, Nyimabum began to receive empowerments and guidance into the most profound levels of spiritual practice from his father, and to Zhangton's great delight he completely mastered them.
During his enthronement at the age of ten, he surprised those gathered for the event by giving a profound teaching on the seventeen tantras, the extraordinary scriptures composed by enlightened beings on the highest level of Great Perfection practice, the instructional category mengag-dhe. Following his enthronement he devoted his entire life to practice. By the time he was twenty, he experienced no difference in his meditation whether formally sitting or involved in daily activity. Thus firmly established in practice, he went on to study the new tantras with the Kagyu master Ngog Gyaltse. Around this time, he took Jomo Gyagar as his consort to accomplish the practice involving the inner qualities of bliss and emptiness.
At the age of twenty-seven, Nyimabum studied the "Three Continua" of the Lamdray (Path and Fruition) cycle with the revered Sakyamaster Khon Dragpa Gyaltsan, whom he served faithfully. He also received instructions in the Chakrasamvara tantra and in the rites of the dharma protector Mahakala. Completely nonsectarian, he continued to study and serve many great gurus of different schools and lineages. He himself later composeda text known as the "Great Exposition of Words and Meaning." Nyimabum passed away in the winter of his fifty-sixth year, amid a gorgeous array of rainbow light canopies. Exotic flowers bloomed out of season, and crystal-like spheres of white, yellow, red, green and blue representing the five Buddha families appeared in the ashes after his cremation.
Wyn Fischel
This is the eighth article in a series on the lineage holders of the Great Perfection, the swiftest and most profound practice that subsumes all others.
"The perfect Buddha is not found in any of the ten directions and four times other than the perfect Buddha which is mind-as-such. Do not seek the Buddha elsewhere."
(From the Secret Nucleus)
During the later part of Zhangton's life, his wife gave birth to a son. She had had a dream of many suns rising in the sky at the time this son was conceived. Upon hearing this, Zhangton predicted that the boy would dispel the darkness obscuring the minds of sentient beings and carry on his lineage–hence he called him Nyimabum, "One Hundred Thousand Suns." There was also a prophecy in the text Penetration of Sound referring to Nyimabum as an emanation of the Lord of Secrets, Vajrapani. From the early age of five, Nyimabum began to receive empowerments and guidance into the most profound levels of spiritual practice from his father, and to Zhangton's great delight he completely mastered them.
During his enthronement at the age of ten, he surprised those gathered for the event by giving a profound teaching on the seventeen tantras, the extraordinary scriptures composed by enlightened beings on the highest level of Great Perfection practice, the instructional category mengag-dhe. Following his enthronement he devoted his entire life to practice. By the time he was twenty, he experienced no difference in his meditation whether formally sitting or involved in daily activity. Thus firmly established in practice, he went on to study the new tantras with the Kagyu master Ngog Gyaltse. Around this time, he took Jomo Gyagar as his consort to accomplish the practice involving the inner qualities of bliss and emptiness.
At the age of twenty-seven, Nyimabum studied the "Three Continua" of the Lamdray (Path and Fruition) cycle with the revered Sakyamaster Khon Dragpa Gyaltsan, whom he served faithfully. He also received instructions in the Chakrasamvara tantra and in the rites of the dharma protector Mahakala. Completely nonsectarian, he continued to study and serve many great gurus of different schools and lineages. He himself later composeda text known as the "Great Exposition of Words and Meaning." Nyimabum passed away in the winter of his fifty-sixth year, amid a gorgeous array of rainbow light canopies. Exotic flowers bloomed out of season, and crystal-like spheres of white, yellow, red, green and blue representing the five Buddha families appeared in the ashes after his cremation.
Wyn Fischel
This is the eighth article in a series on the lineage holders of the Great Perfection, the swiftest and most profound practice that subsumes all others.
"The perfect Buddha is not found in any of the ten directions and four times other than the perfect Buddha which is mind-as-such. Do not seek the Buddha elsewhere."
(From the Secret Nucleus)
During the later part of Zhangton's life, his wife gave birth to a son. She had had a dream of many suns rising in the sky at the time this son was conceived. Upon hearing this, Zhangton predicted that the boy would dispel the darkness obscuring the minds of sentient beings and carry on his lineage–hence he called him Nyimabum, "One Hundred Thousand Suns." There was also a prophecy in the text Penetration of Sound referring to Nyimabum as an emanation of the Lord of Secrets, Vajrapani. From the early age of five, Nyimabum began to receive empowerments and guidance into the most profound levels of spiritual practice from his father, and to Zhangton's great delight he completely mastered them.
During his enthronement at the age of ten, he surprised those gathered for the event by giving a profound teaching on the seventeen tantras, the extraordinary scriptures composed by enlightened beings on the highest level of Great Perfection practice, the instructional category mengag-dhe. Following his enthronement he devoted his entire life to practice. By the time he was twenty, he experienced no difference in his meditation whether formally sitting or involved in daily activity. Thus firmly established in practice, he went on to study the new tantras with the Kagyu master Ngog Gyaltse. Around this time, he took Jomo Gyagar as his consort to accomplish the practice involving the inner qualities of bliss and emptiness.
At the age of twenty-seven, Nyimabum studied the "Three Continua" of the Lamdray (Path and Fruition) cycle with the revered Sakyamaster Khon Dragpa Gyaltsan, whom he served faithfully. He also received instructions in the Chakrasamvara tantra and in the rites of the dharma protector Mahakala. Completely nonsectarian, he continued to study and serve many great gurus of different schools and lineages. He himself later composeda text known as the "Great Exposition of Words and Meaning." Nyimabum passed away in the winter of his fifty-sixth year, amid a gorgeous array of rainbow light canopies. Exotic flowers bloomed out of season, and crystal-like spheres of white, yellow, red, green and blue representing the five Buddha families appeared in the ashes after his cremation.
Wyn Fischel
