Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xv
Foreword His Holiness the Dalai Lama xvii
Foreword Alak Zenkar Rinpoche xix
Foreword Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche xxi
Preface xxiii
Introduction xxxv
Beginnings 1
The Palge Lineage 2
Infant Patrul 4
Patrul's Root Guru 4
Little Monk 6
Patrul Takes On a Powerful Adversary 8
The Palge Tulku Goes His Own Way 8
Patrul the Scholar 11
Do Khyentse Takes Patrul by Surprise 12
» A Piece of Advice 14
Patrul Tries to Offer Prostrations 15
Patrul's Teacher Demonstrates Clairvoyance 15
Patrul Lectures Himself on His Practice 16
Patrul Receives a Special Transmission 16
The Boulder Reminder 17
Patrul and the Paramita of Patience 17
» Drive Them Off with Stones 18
Patrul and the Prescient Monk 24
Flowers Magically Appear 24
A Robber Sets His Sights on an Offering of Silver 25
Patrul on Having Things 26
Patrul Practices in a Haunted Charnel Ground 27
A Meeting of Two Minds 27
"You've Ruined It!" 27
Patrul's Gift of Tea 28
The Haunted Fortress 29
Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu and the Harmful Spirit 30
Patrul and the Three Dargye Monks 30
Patrul Mentions His Past Lives 31
Lungtok Meets His Root Master 32
An Insight into Patrul's Mind 33
» The Crucial Points of Practice 33
Patrul's Offering to the Horseflies 36
Patrul Finds His Limit 37
Developing Empathy, Understanding Emptiness 37
Lungtok's Dream 38
Patrul Introduces Lungtok to the Nature of Mind 39
Lungtok Learns Backward 40
Lungtok Practices in the Glacier Wilderness 41
The Great Master Patrul 42
A Monk Makes a Full Confession 43
Patrul Waits in Line to Receive a Blessing 44
Patrul Paints Some Tormas 45
Patrul Passes Dargye Monastery Again 47
Patrul and the Widow 48
Patrul's Teachings Inspire All Beings 50
Patrul Acts as a Servant 50
Patrul Takes Tea with a Little Girl 52
Patrul and the Tossed Louse 52
Just Sitting on His Bed 53
A Tulku Has a Change of Name 54
Patrul Tries to Meet Shabkar 54
The Land of the Insect-Eaters 55
Parrul Meets an Exemplary Monk 56
Patrul's Dedication to Practice 57
Patrul Pacifies a Blood Feud 58
Patrul Practices in the Ari Forest Wilderness 60
Patrul and the Venue of Vultures 62
Patrul Practices Tummo in a Blizzard 62
Lungtok's Mother 63
Patrul Gives Teachings in the Forest 64
Far-Reaching Effects of Patrul's Teachings 66
Lungtok and the Bandit Chief 66
Do Khyentse's Hospitality 67
The Gift From Lungtok's Mother 69
"That's It!" 70
Adzom Drukpa's Dilemma 71
Patrul Is Asked to Bestow Special Teachings 72
Visible Effects of Yoga 73
Animate and Inanimate Dances 74
Patrul Laughs Over an Old Man's Corpse 74
Nine Brothers Delight Patrul 76
Patrul Reads Terton Sogyal's Mind 76
Patrul's Miraculous Recovery 77
Patrul and Chokgyur Lingpa 77
Patrul Expresses Confidence in Chokgyur Lingpa 78
Patrul's Pointing-Out Instruction for an Old Nomad 79
» On the Nature of Mind 80
An Offering of Silver 82
Patrul and Chokgyur Lingpa's Yellow Parchment 82
Another Offering of Silver 83
» One Taste 84
Karmai Khenpo Rinchen Dargye Requests Teachings 86
Patrul Receives Teachings from an Old Lama 88
Patrul Is Taught His Own Teachings 89
Patrul Asks the Great Kathok Situ for a Favor 92
The Key to Practice 93
» Advice for Garwang from the Eastern Gorges of Gyalmo Rong 94
Patrul Receives Teachings from the Mahasiddha of Trom 96
Chöying Rangdröl Demonstrates Higher Perception 98
Gyalwa Changchup's Prediction 99
Seeking an Audience with a Very Important Lama 99
Seeking an Audience with Another Very Important Lama 101
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo Countermands Patrul's Advice 101
Patrul and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo 103
Patrul Is Upset and Disappears 104
Patrul and Lama Mipham 105
Patrul in Awe 105
Estimations and Rankings 106
Among You Three Great Masters 106
Patrul Leaves Dzogchen Monastery 107
» Advice to Myself 108
Patrul's Pain 112
Patrul Teaches Khenpo Yönten Gyatso 113
Patrul Judges a Great Debate 114
Advice for Alak Do-ngak 115
Two of a Kind 116
Patrul Goes Begging for Food 116
Lungtok Leaves His Lama 117
How Patrul Taught at the Willow Hermitage 118
» Longing for Solitudes 119
Patrul Receives an Extraordinary Guest 120
Patrul Meets Two Murderers 121
Patrul Teaches the Great Perfection at Trama Lung 123
Food for a Day Is Plenty 124
Patrul Is Distraught 124
Patrul and the Learned Geshe 125
The Quick-Thinking Lama 126
The Lotus-Grove Play 127
Patrul Is Tricked by a Nomad Family 130
Patrul Is Tricked by Another Nomad Family 132
Patrul's Patrician Manners 132
Patrul's Rude Manners 133
Some Love Him, Some Fear Him 134
Patrul's Respect for the Natural Course of the Elements 134
» Words of Warning 135
Patrul Gives Away a Fine Mandala 140
Beggars and Mani-Stone Carvers 141
Patrul Begs for More Beggars 142
Patrul Accepts What He Is Given 143
Patrul Practices Yoga 145
Patrul Travels in an Unusual Way 146
Patrul Receives Lo-nga Tulku 146
Lo-nga Tulku and Patrul's Carpet 147
Meeting the 3rd Dodrupchen 147
Meeting with a Yogi 148
First Teaching of the 3rd Dodrupchen 148
Second Visit of the 3rd Dodrupchen 150
Patrul's Encampment 150
Wangchok Dorje's Renunciation 151
The Return of Wangchok Dorje 153
Khenchen Tashi Özer Tries to See Patrul 154
Khenpo Könchog Drönme Tries to See Patrul 156
Trama Tulku Receives Instructions 156
Patrul's Last Great Public Ganachakra 157
Last Days and Hours 158
After Patrul's Death 159
Patrul's Unique Qualities 161
» Calling the Lama from Afar: A Song of Devotion and Yearning 167
Biographical Notes: Influential Figures, Masters, and Disciples 175
Adzom Drukpa 176
Alak Do-ngak Gyatso 177
Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa 178
Chöying Rangdröl 179
Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje 180
Dola Jigme Kalzang 183
Gyalse Shenphen Thaye 184
Gyurme Pema Namgyal, 3rd Shechen Gyaltsap 185
Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye 186
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo 189
Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu 192
Jigme Lingpa 194
Jigme Ngotsar Gyatso 195
Jigme Phuntsok Jungne, 2nd Dodrupchen 196
Jigme Tenpai Nyima, 3rd Dodrupchen 197
Jigme Trinley Özer, 1st Dodrupchen 198
Karmai Khenpo Rinchen Dargye 200
Kathok Situ (2nd), Chökyi Lodrö Orgyen Tenpa Namgyal 200
Khenchen Tashi Özer 201
Khenpo Kunzang Palden (Khenpo Kunpel) 202
Khenpo Pema Dorje 203
Khenpo Shenphen Chökyi Nangwa (Khenpo Shenga) 204
Khenpo Yönten Gyatso (Khenpo Yonga) 205
Lama Mipham Rinpoche 205
Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa) 208
Mingyur Namkhai Dorje 213
Minyak Kunzang Sönam 214
Nyoshul Lungtok Tenpai Nyima 215
Önpo Orgyen Tendzin Norbu (Önpo Tenga) 215
Pema Dechen Zangpo, 3rd Mura Tulku 218
Rogza Sönam Palge 219
Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdröl 220
Shechen Öntrul Gyurme Thuthop Namgyal 222
Notes 223
Glossary 247
Sources 255
About the Contributors 255
Sources for Stories 259
Sources for Biographical Notes 265
Written Sources 268
Acknowledgments 271
Index 277