“My guru, kind in three ways, whose name I find difficult to utter…” The Great Lama Je Pabongka According to His Disciples and Others
- Introduction
- His Eminence Trijang Dorjechang Losang Yeshe
-“…Our childish minds were unfit vessels for so vast an ocean of teachings…”
“…This feeling of renunciation was overwhelming…” - Lama Zopa
Ribur Rinpoche
-“…he cried out of reverence from beginning to end….”
-“As a result of his teachings I still carry something very special inside…”
-“The only thing that matters to me is that I was a disciple of Pabongka Rinpoche.” - Sermey Jetsun Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Tharchin
- “…It was at this time that the glorious Pabongka Rinpoche came into my life…”
-“…It was in his private quarters at the Tashi Chuling hermitage that I first met Pabongka Rinpoche…”
-“He displayed tremendous abilities as a public teacher…” - Zong Rinpoche
-“…Kyabje Phabongka had such vast qualities that it is difficult to comprehend them….”
-”…Heruka then offered nectar to Kyabje Phabongka….”
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Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey talks about Je Phabongkha
Likewise, Lama Trijang Dorje Chang, Junior Tutor to His Holiness the present Dalai Lama, folds his hands unpon the crown of his head wheeverhe mentions Kzabje Pa-bongkha Rinpoche. He was such a great lama, unsurpassed by any, that hardly any lamas or geshes of the Three Pillars (the moasteries of Ganden, Sera and Drepung) had not been his disciples.
Once, in the cave-under -water, he experienced a manifestation of Yamantaka for nine days, while he himself was essentially Heruka Chakrasambhava. Further, he experienced a manifestation of Vajra Yogini who told him of the benefits to be derived from merging the Vajra Yogini teachings of the Sakya and Gelug traditions into one meditational practice. When he once made a great (tsog) offering beside a Heruka statue in Lhasa, the wisdom body actually entered into the statue. The statue danced and told him that whoever received Heruka initiation from him up to the seventh generator would be taken to the dakini realms.
From page 55 The Wheel of Sharp Weapons, with Commentary by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, ISBN: 81-85102-08-2 Published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives – Second revised edition 1994.