This is the third article in a series on the lineage of realized beings who have made the profound essence of the path to enlightenment available to all those who seek the immutable state beyond all hope and fear of cyclic existence.
During the latter part of Shri Singha's life, while he was teaching in the cemetery grounds of Sil Jin in China, two young Indian scholars, Jnanasutra and Vimalamitra, had a vision prophesying their destiny with him. As they were walking one day on the outskirts of Bodh Gaya where they were studying with five hundred other scholars, Vajrasattva appeared in the sky before them. "O sons of good family," he said, "you have each taken birth five hundred times as scholars, yet you have not attained Buddhahood. If you would like to attain the enlightenment of the disappearance of the defiled body in this very life, go to the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China."
Vimalamitra immediately went to China, found the master Shri Singha, received teachings and returned to India where he told Jnanasutra of his experiences. Feeling deeply inspired, Jnanasutra journeyed to China to find his teacher. When he reached the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China he met a beautiful girl carrying a vase of water. Seeing him she gave him prophecy, advising him to go to a certain temple near the Bodhi Tree. Arriving there, he received further prophetic advice from a dakini to continue on to the cremation grounds of Sil Jin. There he met the great master Shri Singha and was moved to serve him faithfully for three years. After this time, Jnanasutra made offerings and humbly beseeched him to teach. Over the following nine years, Shri Singha taught him the outer, inner and esoteric teachings of the oral transmission of the Great Perfection. He then withdrew the texts which he had previously concealed in the temple near the Bodhi Tree and gave them to Jnanasutra. Following this, Shri Singha gave him higher teachings over an eleven-year period.
Having thus received these, Jnanasutra was feeling satisfied and was preparing to depart. Shri Singha asked him, "Are you now satisfied?'
Jnanasutra replied, "Yes, I am."
"Unreliable," said Shri Singha.
Reflecting upon his response, Jnanasutra requested of Shri Singha that, if there were even more profound teachings, that he confer them upon him. Explaining to Jnanasutra that empowerment was necessary, Shri Singha took him to the temple of Tashi Thri-Go and there gave him the complete outer elaborate vase empowerment. After this followed a three-year period of instruction in the innermost esoteric teachings, man-ngag-dhe, concerning the crucial points on direct experience of the nature of mind. He did not give Jnanasutra the texts, saying, 'They will appear for you when the time comes."After this Shri Singha took Jnanasutra to a deserted city and there bestowed on him the complete simple empowerment. Having received this empowerment, Jnanasutra spent one year at the top of Mount Nosali practicing the "samsaric and nirvanic preparatory exercises." Having completed these, Shri Singha gave him the very simple initiation and Jnanasutra gained the confidence of non-reliance on any form of menial analysis. Shortly thereafter he was given the complete empowerment of utmost simplicity and directly attained the state of perfect awareness.The next sixteen years he practiced in the company of Shri Singha, marveling at the display of his master's enlightened intent Shri Singha wandered freely through the charnel grounds transforming himself into various forms and mingling with dakinis and evil spirits without the slightest timidity.
After these years together, Shri Singha was invited to teach in another area of China. He departed, riding a white lion. Seven days later, Jnanasutra heard a huge cracking noise in the sky. Looking up he saw his master seated in the midst of beautiful rainbow light. Seeing him thus, Jnanasutra knew his beloved master' s corporeal body had now transformed. As he offered prayers of praise and deep devotion, the testament known as the Seven Stakes fell into Jnanasutra's hands and he was told,"The texts of the inner esoteric teachings of the Nying-t’hig are concealed in a pillar in the temple of TashiT'hri-Go. Take them and go to the Bha-Shing cremation grounds!"
Following the instruction faithfully, he recovered the texts and journeyed to Bha-Shing, far to the east of Bodh Gaya. While he was there practicing and teaching humans and non-humans alike, Vimalamitra received prophecy to find him there. After many years of separation they met again. Jnanasutra conferred all the empowerments on Vimalamitra and entrusted him with the sacred texts.
This is the third article in a series on the lineage of realized beings who have made the profound essence of the path to enlightenment available to all those who seek the immutable state beyond all hope and fear of cyclic existence.
During the latter part of Shri Singha's life, while he was teaching in the cemetery grounds of Sil Jin in China, two young Indian scholars, Jnanasutra and Vimalamitra, had a vision prophesying their destiny with him. As they were walking one day on the outskirts of Bodh Gaya where they were studying with five hundred other scholars, Vajrasattva appeared in the sky before them. "O sons of good family," he said, "you have each taken birth five hundred times as scholars, yet you have not attained Buddhahood. If you would like to attain the enlightenment of the disappearance of the defiled body in this very life, go to the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China."
Vimalamitra immediately went to China, found the master Shri Singha, received teachings and returned to India where he told Jnanasutra of his experiences. Feeling deeply inspired, Jnanasutra journeyed to China to find his teacher. When he reached the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China he met a beautiful girl carrying a vase of water. Seeing him she gave him prophecy, advising him to go to a certain temple near the Bodhi Tree. Arriving there, he received further prophetic advice from a dakini to continue on to the cremation grounds of Sil Jin. There he met the great master Shri Singha and was moved to serve him faithfully for three years. After this time, Jnanasutra made offerings and humbly beseeched him to teach. Over the following nine years, Shri Singha taught him the outer, inner and esoteric teachings of the oral transmission of the Great Perfection. He then withdrew the texts which he had previously concealed in the temple near the Bodhi Tree and gave them to Jnanasutra. Following this, Shri Singha gave him higher teachings over an eleven-year period.
Having thus received these, Jnanasutra was feeling satisfied and was preparing to depart. Shri Singha asked him, "Are you now satisfied?'
Jnanasutra replied, "Yes, I am."
"Unreliable," said Shri Singha.
Reflecting upon his response, Jnanasutra requested of Shri Singha that, if there were even more profound teachings, that he confer them upon him. Explaining to Jnanasutra that empowerment was necessary, Shri Singha took him to the temple of Tashi Thri-Go and there gave him the complete outer elaborate vase empowerment. After this followed a three-year period of instruction in the innermost esoteric teachings, man-ngag-dhe, concerning the crucial points on direct experience of the nature of mind. He did not give Jnanasutra the texts, saying, 'They will appear for you when the time comes."After this Shri Singha took Jnanasutra to a deserted city and there bestowed on him the complete simple empowerment. Having received this empowerment, Jnanasutra spent one year at the top of Mount Nosali practicing the "samsaric and nirvanic preparatory exercises." Having completed these, Shri Singha gave him the very simple initiation and Jnanasutra gained the confidence of non-reliance on any form of menial analysis. Shortly thereafter he was given the complete empowerment of utmost simplicity and directly attained the state of perfect awareness.The next sixteen years he practiced in the company of Shri Singha, marveling at the display of his master's enlightened intent Shri Singha wandered freely through the charnel grounds transforming himself into various forms and mingling with dakinis and evil spirits without the slightest timidity.
After these years together, Shri Singha was invited to teach in another area of China. He departed, riding a white lion. Seven days later, Jnanasutra heard a huge cracking noise in the sky. Looking up he saw his master seated in the midst of beautiful rainbow light. Seeing him thus, Jnanasutra knew his beloved master' s corporeal body had now transformed. As he offered prayers of praise and deep devotion, the testament known as the Seven Stakes fell into Jnanasutra's hands and he was told,"The texts of the inner esoteric teachings of the Nying-t’hig are concealed in a pillar in the temple of TashiT'hri-Go. Take them and go to the Bha-Shing cremation grounds!"
Following the instruction faithfully, he recovered the texts and journeyed to Bha-Shing, far to the east of Bodh Gaya. While he was there practicing and teaching humans and non-humans alike, Vimalamitra received prophecy to find him there. After many years of separation they met again. Jnanasutra conferred all the empowerments on Vimalamitra and entrusted him with the sacred texts.
This is the third article in a series on the lineage of realized beings who have made the profound essence of the path to enlightenment available to all those who seek the immutable state beyond all hope and fear of cyclic existence.
During the latter part of Shri Singha's life, while he was teaching in the cemetery grounds of Sil Jin in China, two young Indian scholars, Jnanasutra and Vimalamitra, had a vision prophesying their destiny with him. As they were walking one day on the outskirts of Bodh Gaya where they were studying with five hundred other scholars, Vajrasattva appeared in the sky before them. "O sons of good family," he said, "you have each taken birth five hundred times as scholars, yet you have not attained Buddhahood. If you would like to attain the enlightenment of the disappearance of the defiled body in this very life, go to the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China."
Vimalamitra immediately went to China, found the master Shri Singha, received teachings and returned to India where he told Jnanasutra of his experiences. Feeling deeply inspired, Jnanasutra journeyed to China to find his teacher. When he reached the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China he met a beautiful girl carrying a vase of water. Seeing him she gave him prophecy, advising him to go to a certain temple near the Bodhi Tree. Arriving there, he received further prophetic advice from a dakini to continue on to the cremation grounds of Sil Jin. There he met the great master Shri Singha and was moved to serve him faithfully for three years. After this time, Jnanasutra made offerings and humbly beseeched him to teach. Over the following nine years, Shri Singha taught him the outer, inner and esoteric teachings of the oral transmission of the Great Perfection. He then withdrew the texts which he had previously concealed in the temple near the Bodhi Tree and gave them to Jnanasutra. Following this, Shri Singha gave him higher teachings over an eleven-year period.
Having thus received these, Jnanasutra was feeling satisfied and was preparing to depart. Shri Singha asked him, "Are you now satisfied?'
Jnanasutra replied, "Yes, I am."
"Unreliable," said Shri Singha.
Reflecting upon his response, Jnanasutra requested of Shri Singha that, if there were even more profound teachings, that he confer them upon him. Explaining to Jnanasutra that empowerment was necessary, Shri Singha took him to the temple of Tashi Thri-Go and there gave him the complete outer elaborate vase empowerment. After this followed a three-year period of instruction in the innermost esoteric teachings, man-ngag-dhe, concerning the crucial points on direct experience of the nature of mind. He did not give Jnanasutra the texts, saying, 'They will appear for you when the time comes."After this Shri Singha took Jnanasutra to a deserted city and there bestowed on him the complete simple empowerment. Having received this empowerment, Jnanasutra spent one year at the top of Mount Nosali practicing the "samsaric and nirvanic preparatory exercises." Having completed these, Shri Singha gave him the very simple initiation and Jnanasutra gained the confidence of non-reliance on any form of menial analysis. Shortly thereafter he was given the complete empowerment of utmost simplicity and directly attained the state of perfect awareness.The next sixteen years he practiced in the company of Shri Singha, marveling at the display of his master's enlightened intent Shri Singha wandered freely through the charnel grounds transforming himself into various forms and mingling with dakinis and evil spirits without the slightest timidity.
After these years together, Shri Singha was invited to teach in another area of China. He departed, riding a white lion. Seven days later, Jnanasutra heard a huge cracking noise in the sky. Looking up he saw his master seated in the midst of beautiful rainbow light. Seeing him thus, Jnanasutra knew his beloved master' s corporeal body had now transformed. As he offered prayers of praise and deep devotion, the testament known as the Seven Stakes fell into Jnanasutra's hands and he was told,"The texts of the inner esoteric teachings of the Nying-t’hig are concealed in a pillar in the temple of TashiT'hri-Go. Take them and go to the Bha-Shing cremation grounds!"
Following the instruction faithfully, he recovered the texts and journeyed to Bha-Shing, far to the east of Bodh Gaya. While he was there practicing and teaching humans and non-humans alike, Vimalamitra received prophecy to find him there. After many years of separation they met again. Jnanasutra conferred all the empowerments on Vimalamitra and entrusted him with the sacred texts.
This is the third article in a series on the lineage of realized beings who have made the profound essence of the path to enlightenment available to all those who seek the immutable state beyond all hope and fear of cyclic existence.
During the latter part of Shri Singha's life, while he was teaching in the cemetery grounds of Sil Jin in China, two young Indian scholars, Jnanasutra and Vimalamitra, had a vision prophesying their destiny with him. As they were walking one day on the outskirts of Bodh Gaya where they were studying with five hundred other scholars, Vajrasattva appeared in the sky before them. "O sons of good family," he said, "you have each taken birth five hundred times as scholars, yet you have not attained Buddhahood. If you would like to attain the enlightenment of the disappearance of the defiled body in this very life, go to the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China."
Vimalamitra immediately went to China, found the master Shri Singha, received teachings and returned to India where he told Jnanasutra of his experiences. Feeling deeply inspired, Jnanasutra journeyed to China to find his teacher. When he reached the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China he met a beautiful girl carrying a vase of water. Seeing him she gave him prophecy, advising him to go to a certain temple near the Bodhi Tree. Arriving there, he received further prophetic advice from a dakini to continue on to the cremation grounds of Sil Jin. There he met the great master Shri Singha and was moved to serve him faithfully for three years. After this time, Jnanasutra made offerings and humbly beseeched him to teach. Over the following nine years, Shri Singha taught him the outer, inner and esoteric teachings of the oral transmission of the Great Perfection. He then withdrew the texts which he had previously concealed in the temple near the Bodhi Tree and gave them to Jnanasutra. Following this, Shri Singha gave him higher teachings over an eleven-year period.
Having thus received these, Jnanasutra was feeling satisfied and was preparing to depart. Shri Singha asked him, "Are you now satisfied?'
Jnanasutra replied, "Yes, I am."
"Unreliable," said Shri Singha.
Reflecting upon his response, Jnanasutra requested of Shri Singha that, if there were even more profound teachings, that he confer them upon him. Explaining to Jnanasutra that empowerment was necessary, Shri Singha took him to the temple of Tashi Thri-Go and there gave him the complete outer elaborate vase empowerment. After this followed a three-year period of instruction in the innermost esoteric teachings, man-ngag-dhe, concerning the crucial points on direct experience of the nature of mind. He did not give Jnanasutra the texts, saying, 'They will appear for you when the time comes."After this Shri Singha took Jnanasutra to a deserted city and there bestowed on him the complete simple empowerment. Having received this empowerment, Jnanasutra spent one year at the top of Mount Nosali practicing the "samsaric and nirvanic preparatory exercises." Having completed these, Shri Singha gave him the very simple initiation and Jnanasutra gained the confidence of non-reliance on any form of menial analysis. Shortly thereafter he was given the complete empowerment of utmost simplicity and directly attained the state of perfect awareness.The next sixteen years he practiced in the company of Shri Singha, marveling at the display of his master's enlightened intent Shri Singha wandered freely through the charnel grounds transforming himself into various forms and mingling with dakinis and evil spirits without the slightest timidity.
After these years together, Shri Singha was invited to teach in another area of China. He departed, riding a white lion. Seven days later, Jnanasutra heard a huge cracking noise in the sky. Looking up he saw his master seated in the midst of beautiful rainbow light. Seeing him thus, Jnanasutra knew his beloved master' s corporeal body had now transformed. As he offered prayers of praise and deep devotion, the testament known as the Seven Stakes fell into Jnanasutra's hands and he was told,"The texts of the inner esoteric teachings of the Nying-t’hig are concealed in a pillar in the temple of TashiT'hri-Go. Take them and go to the Bha-Shing cremation grounds!"
Following the instruction faithfully, he recovered the texts and journeyed to Bha-Shing, far to the east of Bodh Gaya. While he was there practicing and teaching humans and non-humans alike, Vimalamitra received prophecy to find him there. After many years of separation they met again. Jnanasutra conferred all the empowerments on Vimalamitra and entrusted him with the sacred texts.
This is the third article in a series on the lineage of realized beings who have made the profound essence of the path to enlightenment available to all those who seek the immutable state beyond all hope and fear of cyclic existence.
During the latter part of Shri Singha's life, while he was teaching in the cemetery grounds of Sil Jin in China, two young Indian scholars, Jnanasutra and Vimalamitra, had a vision prophesying their destiny with him. As they were walking one day on the outskirts of Bodh Gaya where they were studying with five hundred other scholars, Vajrasattva appeared in the sky before them. "O sons of good family," he said, "you have each taken birth five hundred times as scholars, yet you have not attained Buddhahood. If you would like to attain the enlightenment of the disappearance of the defiled body in this very life, go to the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China."
Vimalamitra immediately went to China, found the master Shri Singha, received teachings and returned to India where he told Jnanasutra of his experiences. Feeling deeply inspired, Jnanasutra journeyed to China to find his teacher. When he reached the temple near the Bodhi Tree in China he met a beautiful girl carrying a vase of water. Seeing him she gave him prophecy, advising him to go to a certain temple near the Bodhi Tree. Arriving there, he received further prophetic advice from a dakini to continue on to the cremation grounds of Sil Jin. There he met the great master Shri Singha and was moved to serve him faithfully for three years. After this time, Jnanasutra made offerings and humbly beseeched him to teach. Over the following nine years, Shri Singha taught him the outer, inner and esoteric teachings of the oral transmission of the Great Perfection. He then withdrew the texts which he had previously concealed in the temple near the Bodhi Tree and gave them to Jnanasutra. Following this, Shri Singha gave him higher teachings over an eleven-year period.
Having thus received these, Jnanasutra was feeling satisfied and was preparing to depart. Shri Singha asked him, "Are you now satisfied?'
Jnanasutra replied, "Yes, I am."
"Unreliable," said Shri Singha.
Reflecting upon his response, Jnanasutra requested of Shri Singha that, if there were even more profound teachings, that he confer them upon him. Explaining to Jnanasutra that empowerment was necessary, Shri Singha took him to the temple of Tashi Thri-Go and there gave him the complete outer elaborate vase empowerment. After this followed a three-year period of instruction in the innermost esoteric teachings, man-ngag-dhe, concerning the crucial points on direct experience of the nature of mind. He did not give Jnanasutra the texts, saying, 'They will appear for you when the time comes."After this Shri Singha took Jnanasutra to a deserted city and there bestowed on him the complete simple empowerment. Having received this empowerment, Jnanasutra spent one year at the top of Mount Nosali practicing the "samsaric and nirvanic preparatory exercises." Having completed these, Shri Singha gave him the very simple initiation and Jnanasutra gained the confidence of non-reliance on any form of menial analysis. Shortly thereafter he was given the complete empowerment of utmost simplicity and directly attained the state of perfect awareness.The next sixteen years he practiced in the company of Shri Singha, marveling at the display of his master's enlightened intent Shri Singha wandered freely through the charnel grounds transforming himself into various forms and mingling with dakinis and evil spirits without the slightest timidity.
After these years together, Shri Singha was invited to teach in another area of China. He departed, riding a white lion. Seven days later, Jnanasutra heard a huge cracking noise in the sky. Looking up he saw his master seated in the midst of beautiful rainbow light. Seeing him thus, Jnanasutra knew his beloved master' s corporeal body had now transformed. As he offered prayers of praise and deep devotion, the testament known as the Seven Stakes fell into Jnanasutra's hands and he was told,"The texts of the inner esoteric teachings of the Nying-t’hig are concealed in a pillar in the temple of TashiT'hri-Go. Take them and go to the Bha-Shing cremation grounds!"
Following the instruction faithfully, he recovered the texts and journeyed to Bha-Shing, far to the east of Bodh Gaya. While he was there practicing and teaching humans and non-humans alike, Vimalamitra received prophecy to find him there. After many years of separation they met again. Jnanasutra conferred all the empowerments on Vimalamitra and entrusted him with the sacred texts.
