This article is the sixth in a series on the life stories of those great beings who upheld the sublime methods of the Great Perfection in an unbroken fashion up to our present time.
The nature of mind isprimordially Buddha.
In mind. as in thesky, there is no creation or cessation.
Having realized thegenuine truth of the sameness of all things,
if it is establishedwithout being sought, that is meditation.
Garab Dorje
Dangma Lhundrup Gyaltsen, whose name means 'victory banner of spontaneous presence’, was born in the eleventh century in central Tibet eight years after the great Tingdzin Zangpo had attained rainbow body. He was known by some to be the emanation of Vimalamitra, but to most people he was considered just an ordinary temple attendant: Dorje Leg, a dharma protector with special connection to the Great Perfection lineage, appeared to Lhundrup Gyaltsen and gave him prophecy concerning where and how to reveal the Great Perfection texts Tingdzin Zangpo had concealed. Lhundrup Gyaltsen brought an offering of gold to the keeper of the Zha temple whose construction Tingdzin Zangpo had sponsored. There he revealed the texts and was allowed to remove them from the temple.
After practicing intensely for fifteen years he began to look for someone capable of carrying on the transmission of the lineage. He found Kharak Gomrung, who attained liberation soon after receiving the transmission. He also found Chetzun Senge Wangchug, born into the Che clan, who had been an excellent scholar of the buddhadharma from an early age. Lhundrup Gyaltsen told him to copy the texts well and take them away during the following spring. Having completed his task, Chetzun Senge Wangchug was returning with great gifts for his master when he met Nyang Kadampa at Nyetang, who told him that his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen had passed away. Chetzun Senge Wangchug then offered the gifts to a nearby monastery. Nyang told him that everyone was amazed when Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away not as an ordinary person, as most had taken him to be, but amid wondrous signs, the sky filled with rainbows. He also manifested many precious relics upon his passing. Chetzun Senge Wangchug bestowed transmission of the teachings on Nyang Kadampa, who after only two years of meditation attained enlightenment, his physical body vanishing into primordial space.
After his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away, Chetzun Senge Wangchug concealed in three places the Great Perfection texts concerning the direct introduction to the nature of mind. The first was at the foot of a spring at Langdro Chepa Takdra, the second in the valley of Uyuk and the third in the upper valley of Cel.
Having concealed the sacred texts he then wandered in the mountains between Uyuk and Shang practicing meditation. During this period a master appeared to him in a dream and said, "Oh, fortunate one! I am the learned Vimalamitra. If that which you seek is innermost quintessence, on the upper slope of Trakmar Gegong in Chimpu there is the heart-like, secret, innermost spirituality. Take it and meditate for seven years, not seen by anyone, at Oyuk Chi gong. The corrupted body will then disappear."
Chetzun Senge Wangchug immediately set out for Chimpu, meeting along the way, Phadampa Sangye, from whom he received teachings. When he reached Chimpu, he met an extraordinary woman with teeth of conch shell and eyebrows of turquoise who bestowed on him the Great Perfection texts. Deep in the mountains of Uyuk he found a place of complete solitude and began his retreat.
Vimalamitra, having traveled by miraculous means from Wu TaiShan in China, appeared and stayed with him, giving him complete empowerments and instructions for his practice in the years to come. After seven years of meditation, he attained the freedom of full realization. Not finding a suitable recipient upon whom he could bestow the transmission of the teachings, he maintained his physical body until he was 125 at which time he conferred the complete instructions on Tulku Zhangton. The lineage having been transmitted, his ordinary physical body transformed into a rainbow light body just as the bodies of Vimalamitra, Nyang Tingzin Zangpo and others had done before him, a rainbow light presence appearing for millennia to come to those with the fortunate karma to perceive it.
This article is the sixth in a series on the life stories of those great beings who upheld the sublime methods of the Great Perfection in an unbroken fashion up to our present time.
The nature of mind isprimordially Buddha.
In mind. as in thesky, there is no creation or cessation.
Having realized thegenuine truth of the sameness of all things,
if it is establishedwithout being sought, that is meditation.
Garab Dorje
Dangma Lhundrup Gyaltsen, whose name means 'victory banner of spontaneous presence’, was born in the eleventh century in central Tibet eight years after the great Tingdzin Zangpo had attained rainbow body. He was known by some to be the emanation of Vimalamitra, but to most people he was considered just an ordinary temple attendant: Dorje Leg, a dharma protector with special connection to the Great Perfection lineage, appeared to Lhundrup Gyaltsen and gave him prophecy concerning where and how to reveal the Great Perfection texts Tingdzin Zangpo had concealed. Lhundrup Gyaltsen brought an offering of gold to the keeper of the Zha temple whose construction Tingdzin Zangpo had sponsored. There he revealed the texts and was allowed to remove them from the temple.
After practicing intensely for fifteen years he began to look for someone capable of carrying on the transmission of the lineage. He found Kharak Gomrung, who attained liberation soon after receiving the transmission. He also found Chetzun Senge Wangchug, born into the Che clan, who had been an excellent scholar of the buddhadharma from an early age. Lhundrup Gyaltsen told him to copy the texts well and take them away during the following spring. Having completed his task, Chetzun Senge Wangchug was returning with great gifts for his master when he met Nyang Kadampa at Nyetang, who told him that his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen had passed away. Chetzun Senge Wangchug then offered the gifts to a nearby monastery. Nyang told him that everyone was amazed when Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away not as an ordinary person, as most had taken him to be, but amid wondrous signs, the sky filled with rainbows. He also manifested many precious relics upon his passing. Chetzun Senge Wangchug bestowed transmission of the teachings on Nyang Kadampa, who after only two years of meditation attained enlightenment, his physical body vanishing into primordial space.
After his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away, Chetzun Senge Wangchug concealed in three places the Great Perfection texts concerning the direct introduction to the nature of mind. The first was at the foot of a spring at Langdro Chepa Takdra, the second in the valley of Uyuk and the third in the upper valley of Cel.
Having concealed the sacred texts he then wandered in the mountains between Uyuk and Shang practicing meditation. During this period a master appeared to him in a dream and said, "Oh, fortunate one! I am the learned Vimalamitra. If that which you seek is innermost quintessence, on the upper slope of Trakmar Gegong in Chimpu there is the heart-like, secret, innermost spirituality. Take it and meditate for seven years, not seen by anyone, at Oyuk Chi gong. The corrupted body will then disappear."
Chetzun Senge Wangchug immediately set out for Chimpu, meeting along the way, Phadampa Sangye, from whom he received teachings. When he reached Chimpu, he met an extraordinary woman with teeth of conch shell and eyebrows of turquoise who bestowed on him the Great Perfection texts. Deep in the mountains of Uyuk he found a place of complete solitude and began his retreat.
Vimalamitra, having traveled by miraculous means from Wu TaiShan in China, appeared and stayed with him, giving him complete empowerments and instructions for his practice in the years to come. After seven years of meditation, he attained the freedom of full realization. Not finding a suitable recipient upon whom he could bestow the transmission of the teachings, he maintained his physical body until he was 125 at which time he conferred the complete instructions on Tulku Zhangton. The lineage having been transmitted, his ordinary physical body transformed into a rainbow light body just as the bodies of Vimalamitra, Nyang Tingzin Zangpo and others had done before him, a rainbow light presence appearing for millennia to come to those with the fortunate karma to perceive it.
This article is the sixth in a series on the life stories of those great beings who upheld the sublime methods of the Great Perfection in an unbroken fashion up to our present time.
The nature of mind isprimordially Buddha.
In mind. as in thesky, there is no creation or cessation.
Having realized thegenuine truth of the sameness of all things,
if it is establishedwithout being sought, that is meditation.
Garab Dorje
Dangma Lhundrup Gyaltsen, whose name means 'victory banner of spontaneous presence’, was born in the eleventh century in central Tibet eight years after the great Tingdzin Zangpo had attained rainbow body. He was known by some to be the emanation of Vimalamitra, but to most people he was considered just an ordinary temple attendant: Dorje Leg, a dharma protector with special connection to the Great Perfection lineage, appeared to Lhundrup Gyaltsen and gave him prophecy concerning where and how to reveal the Great Perfection texts Tingdzin Zangpo had concealed. Lhundrup Gyaltsen brought an offering of gold to the keeper of the Zha temple whose construction Tingdzin Zangpo had sponsored. There he revealed the texts and was allowed to remove them from the temple.
After practicing intensely for fifteen years he began to look for someone capable of carrying on the transmission of the lineage. He found Kharak Gomrung, who attained liberation soon after receiving the transmission. He also found Chetzun Senge Wangchug, born into the Che clan, who had been an excellent scholar of the buddhadharma from an early age. Lhundrup Gyaltsen told him to copy the texts well and take them away during the following spring. Having completed his task, Chetzun Senge Wangchug was returning with great gifts for his master when he met Nyang Kadampa at Nyetang, who told him that his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen had passed away. Chetzun Senge Wangchug then offered the gifts to a nearby monastery. Nyang told him that everyone was amazed when Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away not as an ordinary person, as most had taken him to be, but amid wondrous signs, the sky filled with rainbows. He also manifested many precious relics upon his passing. Chetzun Senge Wangchug bestowed transmission of the teachings on Nyang Kadampa, who after only two years of meditation attained enlightenment, his physical body vanishing into primordial space.
After his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away, Chetzun Senge Wangchug concealed in three places the Great Perfection texts concerning the direct introduction to the nature of mind. The first was at the foot of a spring at Langdro Chepa Takdra, the second in the valley of Uyuk and the third in the upper valley of Cel.
Having concealed the sacred texts he then wandered in the mountains between Uyuk and Shang practicing meditation. During this period a master appeared to him in a dream and said, "Oh, fortunate one! I am the learned Vimalamitra. If that which you seek is innermost quintessence, on the upper slope of Trakmar Gegong in Chimpu there is the heart-like, secret, innermost spirituality. Take it and meditate for seven years, not seen by anyone, at Oyuk Chi gong. The corrupted body will then disappear."
Chetzun Senge Wangchug immediately set out for Chimpu, meeting along the way, Phadampa Sangye, from whom he received teachings. When he reached Chimpu, he met an extraordinary woman with teeth of conch shell and eyebrows of turquoise who bestowed on him the Great Perfection texts. Deep in the mountains of Uyuk he found a place of complete solitude and began his retreat.
Vimalamitra, having traveled by miraculous means from Wu TaiShan in China, appeared and stayed with him, giving him complete empowerments and instructions for his practice in the years to come. After seven years of meditation, he attained the freedom of full realization. Not finding a suitable recipient upon whom he could bestow the transmission of the teachings, he maintained his physical body until he was 125 at which time he conferred the complete instructions on Tulku Zhangton. The lineage having been transmitted, his ordinary physical body transformed into a rainbow light body just as the bodies of Vimalamitra, Nyang Tingzin Zangpo and others had done before him, a rainbow light presence appearing for millennia to come to those with the fortunate karma to perceive it.
This article is the sixth in a series on the life stories of those great beings who upheld the sublime methods of the Great Perfection in an unbroken fashion up to our present time.
The nature of mind isprimordially Buddha.
In mind. as in thesky, there is no creation or cessation.
Having realized thegenuine truth of the sameness of all things,
if it is establishedwithout being sought, that is meditation.
Garab Dorje
Dangma Lhundrup Gyaltsen, whose name means 'victory banner of spontaneous presence’, was born in the eleventh century in central Tibet eight years after the great Tingdzin Zangpo had attained rainbow body. He was known by some to be the emanation of Vimalamitra, but to most people he was considered just an ordinary temple attendant: Dorje Leg, a dharma protector with special connection to the Great Perfection lineage, appeared to Lhundrup Gyaltsen and gave him prophecy concerning where and how to reveal the Great Perfection texts Tingdzin Zangpo had concealed. Lhundrup Gyaltsen brought an offering of gold to the keeper of the Zha temple whose construction Tingdzin Zangpo had sponsored. There he revealed the texts and was allowed to remove them from the temple.
After practicing intensely for fifteen years he began to look for someone capable of carrying on the transmission of the lineage. He found Kharak Gomrung, who attained liberation soon after receiving the transmission. He also found Chetzun Senge Wangchug, born into the Che clan, who had been an excellent scholar of the buddhadharma from an early age. Lhundrup Gyaltsen told him to copy the texts well and take them away during the following spring. Having completed his task, Chetzun Senge Wangchug was returning with great gifts for his master when he met Nyang Kadampa at Nyetang, who told him that his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen had passed away. Chetzun Senge Wangchug then offered the gifts to a nearby monastery. Nyang told him that everyone was amazed when Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away not as an ordinary person, as most had taken him to be, but amid wondrous signs, the sky filled with rainbows. He also manifested many precious relics upon his passing. Chetzun Senge Wangchug bestowed transmission of the teachings on Nyang Kadampa, who after only two years of meditation attained enlightenment, his physical body vanishing into primordial space.
After his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away, Chetzun Senge Wangchug concealed in three places the Great Perfection texts concerning the direct introduction to the nature of mind. The first was at the foot of a spring at Langdro Chepa Takdra, the second in the valley of Uyuk and the third in the upper valley of Cel.
Having concealed the sacred texts he then wandered in the mountains between Uyuk and Shang practicing meditation. During this period a master appeared to him in a dream and said, "Oh, fortunate one! I am the learned Vimalamitra. If that which you seek is innermost quintessence, on the upper slope of Trakmar Gegong in Chimpu there is the heart-like, secret, innermost spirituality. Take it and meditate for seven years, not seen by anyone, at Oyuk Chi gong. The corrupted body will then disappear."
Chetzun Senge Wangchug immediately set out for Chimpu, meeting along the way, Phadampa Sangye, from whom he received teachings. When he reached Chimpu, he met an extraordinary woman with teeth of conch shell and eyebrows of turquoise who bestowed on him the Great Perfection texts. Deep in the mountains of Uyuk he found a place of complete solitude and began his retreat.
Vimalamitra, having traveled by miraculous means from Wu TaiShan in China, appeared and stayed with him, giving him complete empowerments and instructions for his practice in the years to come. After seven years of meditation, he attained the freedom of full realization. Not finding a suitable recipient upon whom he could bestow the transmission of the teachings, he maintained his physical body until he was 125 at which time he conferred the complete instructions on Tulku Zhangton. The lineage having been transmitted, his ordinary physical body transformed into a rainbow light body just as the bodies of Vimalamitra, Nyang Tingzin Zangpo and others had done before him, a rainbow light presence appearing for millennia to come to those with the fortunate karma to perceive it.
This article is the sixth in a series on the life stories of those great beings who upheld the sublime methods of the Great Perfection in an unbroken fashion up to our present time.
The nature of mind isprimordially Buddha.
In mind. as in thesky, there is no creation or cessation.
Having realized thegenuine truth of the sameness of all things,
if it is establishedwithout being sought, that is meditation.
Garab Dorje
Dangma Lhundrup Gyaltsen, whose name means 'victory banner of spontaneous presence’, was born in the eleventh century in central Tibet eight years after the great Tingdzin Zangpo had attained rainbow body. He was known by some to be the emanation of Vimalamitra, but to most people he was considered just an ordinary temple attendant: Dorje Leg, a dharma protector with special connection to the Great Perfection lineage, appeared to Lhundrup Gyaltsen and gave him prophecy concerning where and how to reveal the Great Perfection texts Tingdzin Zangpo had concealed. Lhundrup Gyaltsen brought an offering of gold to the keeper of the Zha temple whose construction Tingdzin Zangpo had sponsored. There he revealed the texts and was allowed to remove them from the temple.
After practicing intensely for fifteen years he began to look for someone capable of carrying on the transmission of the lineage. He found Kharak Gomrung, who attained liberation soon after receiving the transmission. He also found Chetzun Senge Wangchug, born into the Che clan, who had been an excellent scholar of the buddhadharma from an early age. Lhundrup Gyaltsen told him to copy the texts well and take them away during the following spring. Having completed his task, Chetzun Senge Wangchug was returning with great gifts for his master when he met Nyang Kadampa at Nyetang, who told him that his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen had passed away. Chetzun Senge Wangchug then offered the gifts to a nearby monastery. Nyang told him that everyone was amazed when Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away not as an ordinary person, as most had taken him to be, but amid wondrous signs, the sky filled with rainbows. He also manifested many precious relics upon his passing. Chetzun Senge Wangchug bestowed transmission of the teachings on Nyang Kadampa, who after only two years of meditation attained enlightenment, his physical body vanishing into primordial space.
After his master Lhundrup Gyaltsen passed away, Chetzun Senge Wangchug concealed in three places the Great Perfection texts concerning the direct introduction to the nature of mind. The first was at the foot of a spring at Langdro Chepa Takdra, the second in the valley of Uyuk and the third in the upper valley of Cel.
Having concealed the sacred texts he then wandered in the mountains between Uyuk and Shang practicing meditation. During this period a master appeared to him in a dream and said, "Oh, fortunate one! I am the learned Vimalamitra. If that which you seek is innermost quintessence, on the upper slope of Trakmar Gegong in Chimpu there is the heart-like, secret, innermost spirituality. Take it and meditate for seven years, not seen by anyone, at Oyuk Chi gong. The corrupted body will then disappear."
Chetzun Senge Wangchug immediately set out for Chimpu, meeting along the way, Phadampa Sangye, from whom he received teachings. When he reached Chimpu, he met an extraordinary woman with teeth of conch shell and eyebrows of turquoise who bestowed on him the Great Perfection texts. Deep in the mountains of Uyuk he found a place of complete solitude and began his retreat.
Vimalamitra, having traveled by miraculous means from Wu TaiShan in China, appeared and stayed with him, giving him complete empowerments and instructions for his practice in the years to come. After seven years of meditation, he attained the freedom of full realization. Not finding a suitable recipient upon whom he could bestow the transmission of the teachings, he maintained his physical body until he was 125 at which time he conferred the complete instructions on Tulku Zhangton. The lineage having been transmitted, his ordinary physical body transformed into a rainbow light body just as the bodies of Vimalamitra, Nyang Tingzin Zangpo and others had done before him, a rainbow light presence appearing for millennia to come to those with the fortunate karma to perceive it.
