The-Tibetan-Book-of-Living-and-Dying

PREFACE
Notes
1. Rinyoche, a term of respect meaning "Precious One," is given to
highly revered teachers in Tibet. It was widely used in the central
part of the country; but in eastern Tibet the title was held in such
esteem that it tended to be applied only to the greatest masters.
2. A bodhisattva is a being whose sole wish is to benefit all sentient
beings, and who therefore dedicates his or her entire life, work,
and spiritual practice to the attainment of enlightenment, in order to
be of the greatest possible help to other beings.
3. Jamyang Khyentse was also a leader, one who inspired movements
of spiritual change; in everything he did, he promoted harmony
and unity. He supported monasteries when they fell on hard
times; he discovered unknown practitioners of great spiritual attainment;
and he encouraged masters of little-known lineages, giving
them his backing so they were recognized in the community. He had
great magnetism and was like a living spiritual center in himself.
Whenever there was a project that needed accomplishing, he
attracted the best experts and craftsmen to work on it. From kings
and princes down to the simplest person, he gave everyone his
unstinting personal attention. There was no one who met him who
did not have their own story to tell about him.
1. IN THE MIRROR OF DEATH
1. This account follows Khandro Tsering Chödrön's memory of
Lama Tseten's death.
2. The name Lakar was given to the family by the great Tibetan
saint Tsongkhapa in the fourteenth century, when he stopped at their
home on his way to central Tibet from the northeastern province of
Amdo.
3. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, Life in Relation to Death (Cottage
Grove, OR: Padma Publishing, 1987), 7.
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