Dear Sangha,
These days I can look out the window of my shrine room in Tara House at the distant snow mountains or walk up to the rooftop and survey the progress at Rigdzin Ling–the prayer wheel and garden, the contoured land where crevasses from the gold mines used to be, the still-empty site for the lha khang. Three group retreats are underway, here, and at Rigdzin Gatsal, and I am happy with the news I hear from the various Chagdud Gonpa centers and from the dynamic new centers in Brazil and Chicago. I am also involved in the purchase of land in Nepal, near the very sacred Asura cave in Parping. Asura is where Padmasambhava attained full realization of Vajrakilaya. I hope that developing this land will enable more of my Western students to experience the powerful blessings of holy places in Nepal.
I take pleasure in all this, especially the ripening of dharma in the minds of individual students, and at my venerable age of sixty-three I am fairly healthy and quite content. However, I do notice a change in this last year or so. Whereas before I actively engaged the details of almost every Gonpa project and willingly listened to every problem, now all the day-to-day phenomena arises and subsides without my mind holding it, filing it in memory, working with it. My intention is unwavering, but my focus is different. Perhaps I am getting lazy, perhaps this is one of the signs of advancing age, perhaps it signals a transition in which I can create greater benefit by working in a more spacious mode. In any case, I am shifting some of my responsibilities at Chagdud Gonpa to accommodate these changes, and I am concentrating my efforts on training those who will assume these duties.
I have prayed for quite some time to my special deities and lamas, and prophecies I have thus received make it clear that it would be best that Wyn Fischel postpone his long-held desire to undertake an extended personal retreat and now fulfill some of my responsibilities as head lama of Chagdud Gonpa. I will guide him; you must begin to rely on him.
As for empowerments, oral transmissions, drubchens and other annual ceremonies, Tulku Jigmed Tromge will be primarily responsible. Many holy lamas have confirmed him to be an emanation of Yudra Nyingpo, a master who was guided by Vairocana, Vimalamitra and the great Padmasambhava himself. Tulku Jigmed has completed a lengthy retreat involving all the appropriate practices of approach and accomplishment. He and the other lamas and tulkus of Chagdud Gonpa will assure that dharma activities here will not diminish but will continue to flourish, now and after me.
I have invested three additional lamas–Lama Sonam, Lama Chodrag Gyatso and Tsering Everest–as custodians of Chagdud Gonpa. Tulku Tamdrin, recognized by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the incarnation of a consummate scholar, will share some of my teaching responsibilities, particularly in training Chagdud Gonpa's young tulkus. Khanpo Gyurmed Trinley, whose vast learning and force of intellect so impressed participants in this year's Dzogchen retreat, will divide his time between Chagdud Gonpa and Buddhist institutes in India and Bhutan. Lama Inge and Lama Yontan Yeshe Gonpo have done very well in training the sangha in Spokane, and in the future I will appoint resident lamas for other centers. May all these highly realized, strong-minded individuals unite their altruistic intentions and work harmoniously to assure that Chagdud Gonpa achieve its full potential to create benefit.
The vision and success of Chagdud Gonpa is also entrusted to Jane Tromge, Lisa Leghorn and certain other senior students who have worked closely with me and honed their skillful means. As for you, my sangha of devoted students, I would ask that you regard the above-mentioned tulkus, lamas and senior students with deference and respect, and form a pure, seamless practice mandala with no breaks or fractions.
I will continue to teach as my energies and opportunities permit, with special focus on our young tulkus, Tulku Gyurmed Palden (Wyatt Arnold), Tulku Orgyen Jigmed Namgyal (Kunzang Tamang) and Orgyen Tromge. These are Chagdud Gonpa's jewels whose radiant qualities will arise as a great wealth of blessings for generations of sangha members, and who bring joy and delight to these years of my life.
Best wishes,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
These days I can look out the window of my shrine room in Tara House at the distant snow mountains or walk up to the rooftop and survey the progress at Rigdzin Ling–the prayer wheel and garden, the contoured land where crevasses from the gold mines used to be, the still-empty site for the lha khang. Three group retreats are underway, here, and at Rigdzin Gatsal, and I am happy with the news I hear from the various Chagdud Gonpa centers and from the dynamic new centers in Brazil and Chicago. I am also involved in the purchase of land in Nepal, near the very sacred Asura cave in Parping. Asura is where Padmasambhava attained full realization of Vajrakilaya. I hope that developing this land will enable more of my Western students to experience the powerful blessings of holy places in Nepal.
I take pleasure in all this, especially the ripening of dharma in the minds of individual students, and at my venerable age of sixty-three I am fairly healthy and quite content. However, I do notice a change in this last year or so. Whereas before I actively engaged the details of almost every Gonpa project and willingly listened to every problem, now all the day-to-day phenomena arises and subsides without my mind holding it, filing it in memory, working with it. My intention is unwavering, but my focus is different. Perhaps I am getting lazy, perhaps this is one of the signs of advancing age, perhaps it signals a transition in which I can create greater benefit by working in a more spacious mode. In any case, I am shifting some of my responsibilities at Chagdud Gonpa to accommodate these changes, and I am concentrating my efforts on training those who will assume these duties.
I have prayed for quite some time to my special deities and lamas, and prophecies I have thus received make it clear that it would be best that Wyn Fischel postpone his long-held desire to undertake an extended personal retreat and now fulfill some of my responsibilities as head lama of Chagdud Gonpa. I will guide him; you must begin to rely on him.
As for empowerments, oral transmissions, drubchens and other annual ceremonies, Tulku Jigmed Tromge will be primarily responsible. Many holy lamas have confirmed him to be an emanation of Yudra Nyingpo, a master who was guided by Vairocana, Vimalamitra and the great Padmasambhava himself. Tulku Jigmed has completed a lengthy retreat involving all the appropriate practices of approach and accomplishment. He and the other lamas and tulkus of Chagdud Gonpa will assure that dharma activities here will not diminish but will continue to flourish, now and after me.
I have invested three additional lamas–Lama Sonam, Lama Chodrag Gyatso and Tsering Everest–as custodians of Chagdud Gonpa. Tulku Tamdrin, recognized by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the incarnation of a consummate scholar, will share some of my teaching responsibilities, particularly in training Chagdud Gonpa's young tulkus. Khanpo Gyurmed Trinley, whose vast learning and force of intellect so impressed participants in this year's Dzogchen retreat, will divide his time between Chagdud Gonpa and Buddhist institutes in India and Bhutan. Lama Inge and Lama Yontan Yeshe Gonpo have done very well in training the sangha in Spokane, and in the future I will appoint resident lamas for other centers. May all these highly realized, strong-minded individuals unite their altruistic intentions and work harmoniously to assure that Chagdud Gonpa achieve its full potential to create benefit.
The vision and success of Chagdud Gonpa is also entrusted to Jane Tromge, Lisa Leghorn and certain other senior students who have worked closely with me and honed their skillful means. As for you, my sangha of devoted students, I would ask that you regard the above-mentioned tulkus, lamas and senior students with deference and respect, and form a pure, seamless practice mandala with no breaks or fractions.
I will continue to teach as my energies and opportunities permit, with special focus on our young tulkus, Tulku Gyurmed Palden (Wyatt Arnold), Tulku Orgyen Jigmed Namgyal (Kunzang Tamang) and Orgyen Tromge. These are Chagdud Gonpa's jewels whose radiant qualities will arise as a great wealth of blessings for generations of sangha members, and who bring joy and delight to these years of my life.
Best wishes,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
These days I can look out the window of my shrine room in Tara House at the distant snow mountains or walk up to the rooftop and survey the progress at Rigdzin Ling–the prayer wheel and garden, the contoured land where crevasses from the gold mines used to be, the still-empty site for the lha khang. Three group retreats are underway, here, and at Rigdzin Gatsal, and I am happy with the news I hear from the various Chagdud Gonpa centers and from the dynamic new centers in Brazil and Chicago. I am also involved in the purchase of land in Nepal, near the very sacred Asura cave in Parping. Asura is where Padmasambhava attained full realization of Vajrakilaya. I hope that developing this land will enable more of my Western students to experience the powerful blessings of holy places in Nepal.
I take pleasure in all this, especially the ripening of dharma in the minds of individual students, and at my venerable age of sixty-three I am fairly healthy and quite content. However, I do notice a change in this last year or so. Whereas before I actively engaged the details of almost every Gonpa project and willingly listened to every problem, now all the day-to-day phenomena arises and subsides without my mind holding it, filing it in memory, working with it. My intention is unwavering, but my focus is different. Perhaps I am getting lazy, perhaps this is one of the signs of advancing age, perhaps it signals a transition in which I can create greater benefit by working in a more spacious mode. In any case, I am shifting some of my responsibilities at Chagdud Gonpa to accommodate these changes, and I am concentrating my efforts on training those who will assume these duties.
I have prayed for quite some time to my special deities and lamas, and prophecies I have thus received make it clear that it would be best that Wyn Fischel postpone his long-held desire to undertake an extended personal retreat and now fulfill some of my responsibilities as head lama of Chagdud Gonpa. I will guide him; you must begin to rely on him.
As for empowerments, oral transmissions, drubchens and other annual ceremonies, Tulku Jigmed Tromge will be primarily responsible. Many holy lamas have confirmed him to be an emanation of Yudra Nyingpo, a master who was guided by Vairocana, Vimalamitra and the great Padmasambhava himself. Tulku Jigmed has completed a lengthy retreat involving all the appropriate practices of approach and accomplishment. He and the other lamas and tulkus of Chagdud Gonpa will assure that dharma activities here will not diminish but will continue to flourish, now and after me.
I have invested three additional lamas–Lama Sonam, Lama Chodrag Gyatso and Tsering Everest–as custodians of Chagdud Gonpa. Tulku Tamdrin, recognized by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the incarnation of a consummate scholar, will share some of my teaching responsibilities, particularly in training Chagdud Gonpa's young tulkus. Khanpo Gyurmed Trinley, whose vast learning and force of intellect so impressed participants in this year's Dzogchen retreat, will divide his time between Chagdud Gonpa and Buddhist institutes in India and Bhutan. Lama Inge and Lama Yontan Yeshe Gonpo have done very well in training the sangha in Spokane, and in the future I will appoint resident lamas for other centers. May all these highly realized, strong-minded individuals unite their altruistic intentions and work harmoniously to assure that Chagdud Gonpa achieve its full potential to create benefit.
The vision and success of Chagdud Gonpa is also entrusted to Jane Tromge, Lisa Leghorn and certain other senior students who have worked closely with me and honed their skillful means. As for you, my sangha of devoted students, I would ask that you regard the above-mentioned tulkus, lamas and senior students with deference and respect, and form a pure, seamless practice mandala with no breaks or fractions.
I will continue to teach as my energies and opportunities permit, with special focus on our young tulkus, Tulku Gyurmed Palden (Wyatt Arnold), Tulku Orgyen Jigmed Namgyal (Kunzang Tamang) and Orgyen Tromge. These are Chagdud Gonpa's jewels whose radiant qualities will arise as a great wealth of blessings for generations of sangha members, and who bring joy and delight to these years of my life.
Best wishes,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
These days I can look out the window of my shrine room in Tara House at the distant snow mountains or walk up to the rooftop and survey the progress at Rigdzin Ling–the prayer wheel and garden, the contoured land where crevasses from the gold mines used to be, the still-empty site for the lha khang. Three group retreats are underway, here, and at Rigdzin Gatsal, and I am happy with the news I hear from the various Chagdud Gonpa centers and from the dynamic new centers in Brazil and Chicago. I am also involved in the purchase of land in Nepal, near the very sacred Asura cave in Parping. Asura is where Padmasambhava attained full realization of Vajrakilaya. I hope that developing this land will enable more of my Western students to experience the powerful blessings of holy places in Nepal.
I take pleasure in all this, especially the ripening of dharma in the minds of individual students, and at my venerable age of sixty-three I am fairly healthy and quite content. However, I do notice a change in this last year or so. Whereas before I actively engaged the details of almost every Gonpa project and willingly listened to every problem, now all the day-to-day phenomena arises and subsides without my mind holding it, filing it in memory, working with it. My intention is unwavering, but my focus is different. Perhaps I am getting lazy, perhaps this is one of the signs of advancing age, perhaps it signals a transition in which I can create greater benefit by working in a more spacious mode. In any case, I am shifting some of my responsibilities at Chagdud Gonpa to accommodate these changes, and I am concentrating my efforts on training those who will assume these duties.
I have prayed for quite some time to my special deities and lamas, and prophecies I have thus received make it clear that it would be best that Wyn Fischel postpone his long-held desire to undertake an extended personal retreat and now fulfill some of my responsibilities as head lama of Chagdud Gonpa. I will guide him; you must begin to rely on him.
As for empowerments, oral transmissions, drubchens and other annual ceremonies, Tulku Jigmed Tromge will be primarily responsible. Many holy lamas have confirmed him to be an emanation of Yudra Nyingpo, a master who was guided by Vairocana, Vimalamitra and the great Padmasambhava himself. Tulku Jigmed has completed a lengthy retreat involving all the appropriate practices of approach and accomplishment. He and the other lamas and tulkus of Chagdud Gonpa will assure that dharma activities here will not diminish but will continue to flourish, now and after me.
I have invested three additional lamas–Lama Sonam, Lama Chodrag Gyatso and Tsering Everest–as custodians of Chagdud Gonpa. Tulku Tamdrin, recognized by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the incarnation of a consummate scholar, will share some of my teaching responsibilities, particularly in training Chagdud Gonpa's young tulkus. Khanpo Gyurmed Trinley, whose vast learning and force of intellect so impressed participants in this year's Dzogchen retreat, will divide his time between Chagdud Gonpa and Buddhist institutes in India and Bhutan. Lama Inge and Lama Yontan Yeshe Gonpo have done very well in training the sangha in Spokane, and in the future I will appoint resident lamas for other centers. May all these highly realized, strong-minded individuals unite their altruistic intentions and work harmoniously to assure that Chagdud Gonpa achieve its full potential to create benefit.
The vision and success of Chagdud Gonpa is also entrusted to Jane Tromge, Lisa Leghorn and certain other senior students who have worked closely with me and honed their skillful means. As for you, my sangha of devoted students, I would ask that you regard the above-mentioned tulkus, lamas and senior students with deference and respect, and form a pure, seamless practice mandala with no breaks or fractions.
I will continue to teach as my energies and opportunities permit, with special focus on our young tulkus, Tulku Gyurmed Palden (Wyatt Arnold), Tulku Orgyen Jigmed Namgyal (Kunzang Tamang) and Orgyen Tromge. These are Chagdud Gonpa's jewels whose radiant qualities will arise as a great wealth of blessings for generations of sangha members, and who bring joy and delight to these years of my life.
Best wishes,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
Dear Sangha,
These days I can look out the window of my shrine room in Tara House at the distant snow mountains or walk up to the rooftop and survey the progress at Rigdzin Ling–the prayer wheel and garden, the contoured land where crevasses from the gold mines used to be, the still-empty site for the lha khang. Three group retreats are underway, here, and at Rigdzin Gatsal, and I am happy with the news I hear from the various Chagdud Gonpa centers and from the dynamic new centers in Brazil and Chicago. I am also involved in the purchase of land in Nepal, near the very sacred Asura cave in Parping. Asura is where Padmasambhava attained full realization of Vajrakilaya. I hope that developing this land will enable more of my Western students to experience the powerful blessings of holy places in Nepal.
I take pleasure in all this, especially the ripening of dharma in the minds of individual students, and at my venerable age of sixty-three I am fairly healthy and quite content. However, I do notice a change in this last year or so. Whereas before I actively engaged the details of almost every Gonpa project and willingly listened to every problem, now all the day-to-day phenomena arises and subsides without my mind holding it, filing it in memory, working with it. My intention is unwavering, but my focus is different. Perhaps I am getting lazy, perhaps this is one of the signs of advancing age, perhaps it signals a transition in which I can create greater benefit by working in a more spacious mode. In any case, I am shifting some of my responsibilities at Chagdud Gonpa to accommodate these changes, and I am concentrating my efforts on training those who will assume these duties.
I have prayed for quite some time to my special deities and lamas, and prophecies I have thus received make it clear that it would be best that Wyn Fischel postpone his long-held desire to undertake an extended personal retreat and now fulfill some of my responsibilities as head lama of Chagdud Gonpa. I will guide him; you must begin to rely on him.
As for empowerments, oral transmissions, drubchens and other annual ceremonies, Tulku Jigmed Tromge will be primarily responsible. Many holy lamas have confirmed him to be an emanation of Yudra Nyingpo, a master who was guided by Vairocana, Vimalamitra and the great Padmasambhava himself. Tulku Jigmed has completed a lengthy retreat involving all the appropriate practices of approach and accomplishment. He and the other lamas and tulkus of Chagdud Gonpa will assure that dharma activities here will not diminish but will continue to flourish, now and after me.
I have invested three additional lamas–Lama Sonam, Lama Chodrag Gyatso and Tsering Everest–as custodians of Chagdud Gonpa. Tulku Tamdrin, recognized by His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the incarnation of a consummate scholar, will share some of my teaching responsibilities, particularly in training Chagdud Gonpa's young tulkus. Khanpo Gyurmed Trinley, whose vast learning and force of intellect so impressed participants in this year's Dzogchen retreat, will divide his time between Chagdud Gonpa and Buddhist institutes in India and Bhutan. Lama Inge and Lama Yontan Yeshe Gonpo have done very well in training the sangha in Spokane, and in the future I will appoint resident lamas for other centers. May all these highly realized, strong-minded individuals unite their altruistic intentions and work harmoniously to assure that Chagdud Gonpa achieve its full potential to create benefit.
The vision and success of Chagdud Gonpa is also entrusted to Jane Tromge, Lisa Leghorn and certain other senior students who have worked closely with me and honed their skillful means. As for you, my sangha of devoted students, I would ask that you regard the above-mentioned tulkus, lamas and senior students with deference and respect, and form a pure, seamless practice mandala with no breaks or fractions.
I will continue to teach as my energies and opportunities permit, with special focus on our young tulkus, Tulku Gyurmed Palden (Wyatt Arnold), Tulku Orgyen Jigmed Namgyal (Kunzang Tamang) and Orgyen Tromge. These are Chagdud Gonpa's jewels whose radiant qualities will arise as a great wealth of blessings for generations of sangha members, and who bring joy and delight to these years of my life.
Best wishes,
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
