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

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 421
I am deeply grateful to Dudjom Rinpoche's family: his wife,
Sangyum Kusho Rikzin Wangmo, for her kindness and understanding,
and his son and daughters, Shenphen Rinpoche,
Chime Wangmo, and Tsering Penzom, for their constant support.
For their warm and generous help, I would like to thank
too both Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, whose work has inspired
parts of this book, and Tulku Pema Wangyal Rinpoche, who
has been so instrumental in bringing the teachings and the
greatest teachers to the West.
Among the younger generation of masters, I must single
out Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, the "activity emanation"
of my master Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. The
brilliance and freshness of his teaching continue to fascinate
me and fill me with great hope for the future. Likewise I
should like to thank, for his wonderful and spontaneous help,
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, who is the heir to Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche, and who received teachings from him continuously
from the age of five.
I am always moved and encouraged too by a master who
is very close to my heart, whose work and mine are one:
Dzogchen Rinpoche. Having now reconstructed the famous
Dzogchen Monastery with immense vitality in southern India,
he has already taken on, in his learning and the dazzling
purity and natural simplicity of his presence, the bearing of the
great master he will be in the future.
A number of masters have answered in detail certain specific
questions about the teachings presented in this book:
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,
Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche, Dzongsar
Khyentse Rinpoche, Lati Rinpoche, and Alak Zenkar Rinpoche.
To them I am deeply grateful. I would like to express my gratitude
as well to Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, for his friendship over
the years, his kind and constant help to both my students and
myself, and his wonderful translation work, which includes
the translation of this book into Tibetan.
I wish to thank and salute the pioneers of the Buddhist
teachings, those masters of different traditions whose work
has for decades brought help to so many people in the West. I
think especially of Suzuki Roshi, Chögyam Trungpa, Tarthang
Tulku, and Thich Nhat Hanh.
I would like also to thank my mother and my late father
for their support, and all the help they have given me to
accomplish what I have done so far: my late father, Tsewang