Dear Sangha,
Twelve centuries ago Padma Jungnay, the teacher from Orgyan who embodies the pristine awareness of all the victorious ones bestowed profound teachings upon his twenty-five disciples and other fortunate individuals in Tibet, including all the cycles of guru yoga, Great Perfection(Dzogchen) and Avalokiteshvara practice.
Revered as Guru Rinpoche, he also concealed in Tibet numerous teachings as treasures (terma). In his compassion for beings in the future, he saw the need to provide spiritual methods that would relieve the afflictions of disease, famine, war and unrest that would manifest in times of spiritual degeneration. Some of these treasures were planted in the mindstreams of his students to be discovered in later lifetimes; some were physical objects left in the earth and rocks, in lakes and streams.
Among the treasure cycles concealed in this manner are those revealed in the nineteenth century by T'hrag T'hung Dudjom Lingpa, a great treasure discoverer (terton) and teacher famed throughout the three planes of existence as an emanation of Padmasambhava and an incarnation of Drogban Khye'u Chhung Lotsawa, one of Padmasambhava's twenty-five disciples. Dudjom Lingpa codified terma cycles such as the Treasury of the Vast Expanse of the Space of Dharmata (Chhi-nyid Nam-khaiLong-dzod). His treasures are all of supreme relevance and benefit to beings in these times.
In an uninterrupted lineage, these treasures were received by Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the late His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, who, as the irrefutable manifestation of the pristine awareness of Dudjom Lingpa, was also known as Terton Drodul Lingpa. At Boudhanath, Nepal, I had the good fortune to join a large group of people who received from His Holiness all the ripening empowerments, liberating teachings and supportive scriptural transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa's teachings. Each day, after he completed the empowerments and transmissions, His Holiness would encourage us to benefit others through these transmissions. At that time I formulated the personal aspiration that at least once in this lifetime I would in turn transmit all of these teachings to my students.
Several years later, when His Holiness visited the United States in 1980, I met with him in Berkeley and asked him which teachings would be most appropriate in propagating the Buddha's teachings in these times and especially in this country. As a terton, His Holiness was skilled in determining the timeliness of specific teachings, and he expressed the view that Dudjom Lingpa' s teachings would be very effective, particularly Vajrakilaya and T'hroma. Recognizing His Holiness to be an infallible representative of Padmasambhava, I took his advice to heart. From that time until the present I have devoted my efforts to transmitting the teachings of both Dudjom Lingpa and Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje to my students.
Now, due to illness and the signs of advancing age, I am reminded that if I do not act quickly to fulfill this aspiration, I may not be able to do so in the future. Moreover, my students and vajra brothers have been requesting these transmissions from me. In response to these circumstances, I have decided to offer all the empowerments and transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa and selected ones from Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje.
Even to receive these empowerments can help heal illness and overcome obstacles. In bestowing them, I am not presenting myself as a very special teacher, but I am concerned that these precious treasures of spiritual wisdom should survive and flourish in a new generation of practitioners. Such is my intention to permit others to establish connection with the unsurpassed Dudjom lineage. For me it is also an opportunity to fulfill my personal aspiration to offer this transmission.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Twelve centuries ago Padma Jungnay, the teacher from Orgyan who embodies the pristine awareness of all the victorious ones bestowed profound teachings upon his twenty-five disciples and other fortunate individuals in Tibet, including all the cycles of guru yoga, Great Perfection(Dzogchen) and Avalokiteshvara practice.
Revered as Guru Rinpoche, he also concealed in Tibet numerous teachings as treasures (terma). In his compassion for beings in the future, he saw the need to provide spiritual methods that would relieve the afflictions of disease, famine, war and unrest that would manifest in times of spiritual degeneration. Some of these treasures were planted in the mindstreams of his students to be discovered in later lifetimes; some were physical objects left in the earth and rocks, in lakes and streams.
Among the treasure cycles concealed in this manner are those revealed in the nineteenth century by T'hrag T'hung Dudjom Lingpa, a great treasure discoverer (terton) and teacher famed throughout the three planes of existence as an emanation of Padmasambhava and an incarnation of Drogban Khye'u Chhung Lotsawa, one of Padmasambhava's twenty-five disciples. Dudjom Lingpa codified terma cycles such as the Treasury of the Vast Expanse of the Space of Dharmata (Chhi-nyid Nam-khaiLong-dzod). His treasures are all of supreme relevance and benefit to beings in these times.
In an uninterrupted lineage, these treasures were received by Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the late His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, who, as the irrefutable manifestation of the pristine awareness of Dudjom Lingpa, was also known as Terton Drodul Lingpa. At Boudhanath, Nepal, I had the good fortune to join a large group of people who received from His Holiness all the ripening empowerments, liberating teachings and supportive scriptural transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa's teachings. Each day, after he completed the empowerments and transmissions, His Holiness would encourage us to benefit others through these transmissions. At that time I formulated the personal aspiration that at least once in this lifetime I would in turn transmit all of these teachings to my students.
Several years later, when His Holiness visited the United States in 1980, I met with him in Berkeley and asked him which teachings would be most appropriate in propagating the Buddha's teachings in these times and especially in this country. As a terton, His Holiness was skilled in determining the timeliness of specific teachings, and he expressed the view that Dudjom Lingpa' s teachings would be very effective, particularly Vajrakilaya and T'hroma. Recognizing His Holiness to be an infallible representative of Padmasambhava, I took his advice to heart. From that time until the present I have devoted my efforts to transmitting the teachings of both Dudjom Lingpa and Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje to my students.
Now, due to illness and the signs of advancing age, I am reminded that if I do not act quickly to fulfill this aspiration, I may not be able to do so in the future. Moreover, my students and vajra brothers have been requesting these transmissions from me. In response to these circumstances, I have decided to offer all the empowerments and transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa and selected ones from Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje.
Even to receive these empowerments can help heal illness and overcome obstacles. In bestowing them, I am not presenting myself as a very special teacher, but I am concerned that these precious treasures of spiritual wisdom should survive and flourish in a new generation of practitioners. Such is my intention to permit others to establish connection with the unsurpassed Dudjom lineage. For me it is also an opportunity to fulfill my personal aspiration to offer this transmission.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Twelve centuries ago Padma Jungnay, the teacher from Orgyan who embodies the pristine awareness of all the victorious ones bestowed profound teachings upon his twenty-five disciples and other fortunate individuals in Tibet, including all the cycles of guru yoga, Great Perfection(Dzogchen) and Avalokiteshvara practice.
Revered as Guru Rinpoche, he also concealed in Tibet numerous teachings as treasures (terma). In his compassion for beings in the future, he saw the need to provide spiritual methods that would relieve the afflictions of disease, famine, war and unrest that would manifest in times of spiritual degeneration. Some of these treasures were planted in the mindstreams of his students to be discovered in later lifetimes; some were physical objects left in the earth and rocks, in lakes and streams.
Among the treasure cycles concealed in this manner are those revealed in the nineteenth century by T'hrag T'hung Dudjom Lingpa, a great treasure discoverer (terton) and teacher famed throughout the three planes of existence as an emanation of Padmasambhava and an incarnation of Drogban Khye'u Chhung Lotsawa, one of Padmasambhava's twenty-five disciples. Dudjom Lingpa codified terma cycles such as the Treasury of the Vast Expanse of the Space of Dharmata (Chhi-nyid Nam-khaiLong-dzod). His treasures are all of supreme relevance and benefit to beings in these times.
In an uninterrupted lineage, these treasures were received by Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the late His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, who, as the irrefutable manifestation of the pristine awareness of Dudjom Lingpa, was also known as Terton Drodul Lingpa. At Boudhanath, Nepal, I had the good fortune to join a large group of people who received from His Holiness all the ripening empowerments, liberating teachings and supportive scriptural transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa's teachings. Each day, after he completed the empowerments and transmissions, His Holiness would encourage us to benefit others through these transmissions. At that time I formulated the personal aspiration that at least once in this lifetime I would in turn transmit all of these teachings to my students.
Several years later, when His Holiness visited the United States in 1980, I met with him in Berkeley and asked him which teachings would be most appropriate in propagating the Buddha's teachings in these times and especially in this country. As a terton, His Holiness was skilled in determining the timeliness of specific teachings, and he expressed the view that Dudjom Lingpa' s teachings would be very effective, particularly Vajrakilaya and T'hroma. Recognizing His Holiness to be an infallible representative of Padmasambhava, I took his advice to heart. From that time until the present I have devoted my efforts to transmitting the teachings of both Dudjom Lingpa and Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje to my students.
Now, due to illness and the signs of advancing age, I am reminded that if I do not act quickly to fulfill this aspiration, I may not be able to do so in the future. Moreover, my students and vajra brothers have been requesting these transmissions from me. In response to these circumstances, I have decided to offer all the empowerments and transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa and selected ones from Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje.
Even to receive these empowerments can help heal illness and overcome obstacles. In bestowing them, I am not presenting myself as a very special teacher, but I am concerned that these precious treasures of spiritual wisdom should survive and flourish in a new generation of practitioners. Such is my intention to permit others to establish connection with the unsurpassed Dudjom lineage. For me it is also an opportunity to fulfill my personal aspiration to offer this transmission.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Twelve centuries ago Padma Jungnay, the teacher from Orgyan who embodies the pristine awareness of all the victorious ones bestowed profound teachings upon his twenty-five disciples and other fortunate individuals in Tibet, including all the cycles of guru yoga, Great Perfection(Dzogchen) and Avalokiteshvara practice.
Revered as Guru Rinpoche, he also concealed in Tibet numerous teachings as treasures (terma). In his compassion for beings in the future, he saw the need to provide spiritual methods that would relieve the afflictions of disease, famine, war and unrest that would manifest in times of spiritual degeneration. Some of these treasures were planted in the mindstreams of his students to be discovered in later lifetimes; some were physical objects left in the earth and rocks, in lakes and streams.
Among the treasure cycles concealed in this manner are those revealed in the nineteenth century by T'hrag T'hung Dudjom Lingpa, a great treasure discoverer (terton) and teacher famed throughout the three planes of existence as an emanation of Padmasambhava and an incarnation of Drogban Khye'u Chhung Lotsawa, one of Padmasambhava's twenty-five disciples. Dudjom Lingpa codified terma cycles such as the Treasury of the Vast Expanse of the Space of Dharmata (Chhi-nyid Nam-khaiLong-dzod). His treasures are all of supreme relevance and benefit to beings in these times.
In an uninterrupted lineage, these treasures were received by Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the late His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, who, as the irrefutable manifestation of the pristine awareness of Dudjom Lingpa, was also known as Terton Drodul Lingpa. At Boudhanath, Nepal, I had the good fortune to join a large group of people who received from His Holiness all the ripening empowerments, liberating teachings and supportive scriptural transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa's teachings. Each day, after he completed the empowerments and transmissions, His Holiness would encourage us to benefit others through these transmissions. At that time I formulated the personal aspiration that at least once in this lifetime I would in turn transmit all of these teachings to my students.
Several years later, when His Holiness visited the United States in 1980, I met with him in Berkeley and asked him which teachings would be most appropriate in propagating the Buddha's teachings in these times and especially in this country. As a terton, His Holiness was skilled in determining the timeliness of specific teachings, and he expressed the view that Dudjom Lingpa' s teachings would be very effective, particularly Vajrakilaya and T'hroma. Recognizing His Holiness to be an infallible representative of Padmasambhava, I took his advice to heart. From that time until the present I have devoted my efforts to transmitting the teachings of both Dudjom Lingpa and Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje to my students.
Now, due to illness and the signs of advancing age, I am reminded that if I do not act quickly to fulfill this aspiration, I may not be able to do so in the future. Moreover, my students and vajra brothers have been requesting these transmissions from me. In response to these circumstances, I have decided to offer all the empowerments and transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa and selected ones from Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje.
Even to receive these empowerments can help heal illness and overcome obstacles. In bestowing them, I am not presenting myself as a very special teacher, but I am concerned that these precious treasures of spiritual wisdom should survive and flourish in a new generation of practitioners. Such is my intention to permit others to establish connection with the unsurpassed Dudjom lineage. For me it is also an opportunity to fulfill my personal aspiration to offer this transmission.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
Twelve centuries ago Padma Jungnay, the teacher from Orgyan who embodies the pristine awareness of all the victorious ones bestowed profound teachings upon his twenty-five disciples and other fortunate individuals in Tibet, including all the cycles of guru yoga, Great Perfection(Dzogchen) and Avalokiteshvara practice.
Revered as Guru Rinpoche, he also concealed in Tibet numerous teachings as treasures (terma). In his compassion for beings in the future, he saw the need to provide spiritual methods that would relieve the afflictions of disease, famine, war and unrest that would manifest in times of spiritual degeneration. Some of these treasures were planted in the mindstreams of his students to be discovered in later lifetimes; some were physical objects left in the earth and rocks, in lakes and streams.
Among the treasure cycles concealed in this manner are those revealed in the nineteenth century by T'hrag T'hung Dudjom Lingpa, a great treasure discoverer (terton) and teacher famed throughout the three planes of existence as an emanation of Padmasambhava and an incarnation of Drogban Khye'u Chhung Lotsawa, one of Padmasambhava's twenty-five disciples. Dudjom Lingpa codified terma cycles such as the Treasury of the Vast Expanse of the Space of Dharmata (Chhi-nyid Nam-khaiLong-dzod). His treasures are all of supreme relevance and benefit to beings in these times.
In an uninterrupted lineage, these treasures were received by Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the late His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, who, as the irrefutable manifestation of the pristine awareness of Dudjom Lingpa, was also known as Terton Drodul Lingpa. At Boudhanath, Nepal, I had the good fortune to join a large group of people who received from His Holiness all the ripening empowerments, liberating teachings and supportive scriptural transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa's teachings. Each day, after he completed the empowerments and transmissions, His Holiness would encourage us to benefit others through these transmissions. At that time I formulated the personal aspiration that at least once in this lifetime I would in turn transmit all of these teachings to my students.
Several years later, when His Holiness visited the United States in 1980, I met with him in Berkeley and asked him which teachings would be most appropriate in propagating the Buddha's teachings in these times and especially in this country. As a terton, His Holiness was skilled in determining the timeliness of specific teachings, and he expressed the view that Dudjom Lingpa' s teachings would be very effective, particularly Vajrakilaya and T'hroma. Recognizing His Holiness to be an infallible representative of Padmasambhava, I took his advice to heart. From that time until the present I have devoted my efforts to transmitting the teachings of both Dudjom Lingpa and Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje to my students.
Now, due to illness and the signs of advancing age, I am reminded that if I do not act quickly to fulfill this aspiration, I may not be able to do so in the future. Moreover, my students and vajra brothers have been requesting these transmissions from me. In response to these circumstances, I have decided to offer all the empowerments and transmissions of Dudjom Lingpa and selected ones from Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje.
Even to receive these empowerments can help heal illness and overcome obstacles. In bestowing them, I am not presenting myself as a very special teacher, but I am concerned that these precious treasures of spiritual wisdom should survive and flourish in a new generation of practitioners. Such is my intention to permit others to establish connection with the unsurpassed Dudjom lineage. For me it is also an opportunity to fulfill my personal aspiration to offer this transmission.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
