Phakchok rinpoche biography of williams

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His enlightened mind-stream was thoroughly tamed by altruism, loving kindness, compassion, and bodhichitta and he perfected the excellent actions and conduct of a liberating lifestyle. It is difficult to measure even a part of his excellent great qualities of enlightened body, speech, and mind, since they are an object of experience only of noble beings; ordinary beings are not able to fathom them.

Yet to talk of them in merely ordinary terms, he had inconceivable mastery over pure visions, saw the face of the deity and so forth. From a young age, he was remarkable at bestowing empowerments and giving dharma teachings.

Phakchok rinpoche biography of williams

Moreover, he erected inconceivable amounts of supports for enlightened body, speech, and mind, such as a new Jokhang statue in the monastery, which became indivisible with the real Jowo in the temple Lhasa Trulnang. By turning the wheel of dharma widely and uninterruptedly, fortunate disciples, those to be tamed, were ripened and liberated.

Thus he became a great master endowed with the sublime qualities of learnedness, integrity, and noble-mindedness through which he accomplished the welfare of the teachings and beings. In the year of the Earth Ox,he dissolved his manifestation of the form body. Having been opproved by the official divination, he was installed in the seat of his predecessor.

From many sublime masters, he received teachings on Sutra, Mantra, and the topics of knowledge and perfected study and learning. He engaged in the approach and accomplishment of the supreme deity Maitreya, saw the face of the deity, had inconceivable pure visions. Thus he became a great pandita and accomplished master. He erected supports for enlightened body, speech, and mind and his enlightened activity of bestowing empowerments and teaching the dharma spread far and wide.

In Taklung Yartang, he bestowed the Meaning Lineage of the long-standing tradition of Taklung Kagyu, the ripening and liberating empowerments, transmissions, and instructions of the Wish-fulfilling Jewel in their entirety to the reincarnation of the omniscient Tenpey Nyima and Matrul Geleg Namgyal. He spent long periods of time in retreat and became a crest-ornament among all learned and accomplished masters.

He also erected innumerable sacred representations of Body, Speech and Mind. Inhe invited Tenzin Drakpa of Katok, also known as Pema Rangdrol, a master possessing the threefold qualities of being learned, upright and noble, to establish a new Shedra for the Taklung and Drukpa Kagyu traditions. Due to the unspeakable destructiveness of invading armies, he passed away in Chamdo in