Imagine, if you will…
The year is 1849, and the Sakya temple known as Mugchug resounds with the sonorous tones of a great assembly of high Sakya lamas engaged in a special ritual practice. The Sakya Throneholder Tashi Rinchen, head of the entire Sakya tradition, is in attendance. In fact, the entire ritual practice has been requested by this Sakya Tri (Throneholder).
Sakya Temple
In the Sakya tradtion, the position of Throneholder passes from father to son. There are two main houses or “phodrang” from which a Sakya Tri may arise, Dolma phodrang and Phuntsog phodrang. These houses alternate such that when a Throneholder passes away and his sons are still in their minority, a child of the previous Tri will take the throne, allowing the young potential-throneholders to mature and receive the training appropriate to a leader of the Sakya tradition. In this way, the Sakyas ensure the continuity of their tradition’s leadership.
As of this evening in 1849, however, Dolma Phodrang Thegchen Tashi Rinchen, Lord of the Sakyas, Thirty-Fifth Throneholder and supreme leader of the tradition, has no son.
Mahasiddha Pema Dudul
As the Dolma house line carries the most precious and esoteric teachings in the Sakya tradition (1), the situation is considered extremely grave.
Tashi Rinchen himself has requested Mahasiddha Padma Dudul, a very great Sakya master and incidentally both a retired Throneholder himself and also Tashi Rinchen’s father, to perform a ritual to ensure the swift birth of a male child. This is why the high lamas and tulkus have gathered this night. (2)
During a break in the ritual, eager to discover any results, Tashi Rinchen turns to Mahasiddha Pema Dudul and asks him, “Who will come to take rebirth as my son?”
With joy, the great Mahasiddha replies….
“These days times are so degenerate no-one else is coming, but now Grandpa Shugden himself will definitely come as your son!”
To be continued……
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Notes:
1 Drogmi.org, Biography of the Present Sakya Trizin. I assume this refers mainly to the Lamdre tradition, the heart of the Tantric transmission of the Sakyas, which has been passed down through the masters of the Dolma phodrang.
2 Khri chen Drag shul ‘Phrin las rin chen. Rdo rje ‘chang drag shul ‘phrin las rin chen gyi rtogs brjod (The Autobiography of Khri-chen Drag-shul-phrin-las-rin-chen of Sakya). Dehra Dun: Sakya Centre: 1974, pp. 29-31.
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Very exciting!
You’ve written some wonderful blog articles recently, thank you so much!! We have to be very patient getting the truth out there, as the Dalai Lama’s publicity machine is huge and few have the incentive to delve below the apparent saintliness of the man that everyone now blindly takes for granted. But slowly the truth is coming out and having some influence on public discourse, and the very existence of Shar Gaden and Serpong monasteries is a poke in the eye for the corrupt Tibetan establishment and for the intolerant monks just down the road.
Eventually, if our motivation is pure and we are patient, through our simply speaking the truth over and over again in blogs like this, the Buddhist religion as passed down by all great lineage Gurus from Buddha himself will have a chance to thrive. It will become free from the insidious and demeaning influence of Tibetan politics and its beautiful treasures of wisdom and compassion will be open to a large worldwide public.
May the Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden, the same nature as Je Tsongkhapa and Manjushri themselves, help us swiftly bring this to pass. May we always treasure and practice our pure Buddhist traditions, free from hatred and attachment.
Is this going to be finished?
It IS finished…read on!