2014年1月27日

The Seed of Faith (2)

The Seed of Faith (2)
By Khenpo Tamdin Gyalpo & Translated by Dr. Gyurme Dorje

Family Background & Birth

Among all these successive emanations, Yangsi Rinpoche the lord of refuges, issued from the familial lineage (gdung rgyud) of the local ruler and religious king of Kanam, who had been granted dominion in Puworong by Pude Gungyal or Jatri Tsenpo, the ninth king in the line of the first Tibetan monarch Nyatri Tsenpo. His father was Dola Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, a son of the late lord of refuges Dudjom Rinpoche, and the sixteenth incarnation in the line of Dola Chokyi Drakpa, who has been an actual student of Drogon Chogyal Phakpa. His mother is Pema Khandro. He took birth as their son at Jyekundo in Kham, one among the six precious tribal groups of Gawa in the Upper Dokham (mdo stod) region of Eastern Tibet, on the twenty-fifth day of the second month of the Iron Horse Year of the seventeenth Tibetan year cycle (1990)—a day of the lunar calendar when the dakinis gather.

While he was in his mother’s womb and also at the time when he was born, his venerable father experienced a dream in which the lord of refuges appeared in his own quarters, in a disposition that brought joy to the Sugatas. He saw him seated upon a high and resplendent teaching-throne. Then when he was actually being born, rays and lights permeated the bedroom inside and outside, and there were other such wondrous signs. Diverse wondrous signs also arose in the locality of Jyekundo, which was pervaded by an auspicious and virtuous light. For these reasons, all members of the monastic body and the lay community, high and low, said that a truly sublime individual had undoubtedly taken birth upon the earth. In this way the pleasant news permeated the world—East and West, like the wind.

2014年1月18日

The Seed of Faith (1)

The Seed of Faith

By Khenpo Tamdin Gyalpo & Translated by Dr. Gyurme Dorje

Sangye Pema Zhepa Drodul Rigdzin Trinle Drupeide Pelzangpo, the immediate subsequent incarnation (yang srid) of the lord of refuges Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, who was the definitive regent of Padmakara, lord among conquerors, and the head of the Nyingma school, which preserves the ancient translations of the secret mantra vehicles, has definitively attained manifest buddhahood, inseparable from the conquerors who embody the atemporal buddha-body of reality (dhamakaya), and yet, through the emanational play of great compassion, he is present even now as the essence of the mandala of the buddha-body of perfect resource (sambhogakaya), which naturally manifests and is endowed with five certainties. On that basis, he assumes the forms of the buddha-body of emanation (nirmanakaya), which trains living beings throughout the world-systems of the ten directions, and continues to act on their behalf.

Previous Lives


It was as such, for the while, that he assumed the form of the buddha-body of indestructible reality (vajrakaya), as a powerful and mighty lord of yoga, for the sake of those to be trained in this Auspicious Aeon (bhadrakalpa), receiving empowerments and prophetic declarations in the presence of the Teacher Shakyamuni Buddha, the guide of the Auspicious Aeon. During this period when the precious teachings of Shakyaketu, the fourth distinct guide of the Auspicious Aeon, continue to illuminate the world, he has taken birth as Shariputra, one of the supreme pair of great pious attendants who followed the Teacher himself. Furthermore, he also incarnated continuously in the successive forms of great spiritual beings who authentically adorned and elucidated the teachings of the conqueror. In India, they included the brahmana Saraha, Krishnadhara the religious minister of Oddiyana, and the master Humakara. In Tibet the Land of Snows, they included Drokben Khyeuchung Lostawa, Jowo Smritijnanakirti, Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo, Katok Dampa Deshek, Palden Ling Repa, Drogon Chogyal Phakpa, Khar Nagpa of Drum, Hepa Chokyi Jungne, Traktung Dudul Dorje, Gyelse Sonam Detsen, Dudul Rolpatsel and in particular, Terchen Traktung Dudjom Lingpa, the lord of refuges Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, and now the lord of refuges, Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa Drodul Rigdzin Trinle Drubpeide—he on whose divine fortune our flowers of empowerment now alight.

Future Lives


In the future also, it is predicted that he will assume the form of the Kulika Rudra, king of Shambhala, and destroy the armies that assault the borders of the Buddhist world. 

Finally it is predicted that he will attain buddhahood in the essence of the Tathagata Anantadhimoksa (mos pa mtha’ yas) and as such he will continue to rouse the world-systems of living beings compassionately from their very depths.

2014年1月14日

菩提心的修持(序言)

丹頂堪布講授菩提心
丹頂堪布講授菩提心

2013年7月,丹頂堪布於百忙中遠從尼泊爾來台灣,給予弟子們一序列修行菩提心的開示。堪布以金剛乘的角度講授菩提心的內涵與修持方法,內容精闢殊勝,對於修習金剛乘的弟子有很大助益。特將堪布關於菩提心的教授內容整理,編輯成冊。

丹頂堪布曾於寧瑪巴大圓滿佛學中心學習及實修多年,對於大圓滿的教法有深刻體會,並於1977年於該學院獲得佛教哲理的博士學位。於1983年11月受尊貴的 敦珠法王任命,負責主持桑多巴利佛學院(位於印度嘎林幫之寧瑪派最高佛學院)的教學及一切院務長達十三年之久。不論是佛學學識,或對佛法的實修,都堪稱為弟子心目中最佳的傳法師長,以及學習典範。