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Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

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66 <strong>Timeless</strong> <strong>Rapture</strong><br />

And ask him to be your preceptor for full monastic<br />

ordination.<br />

Here in <strong>the</strong> central region of <strong>the</strong> supreme sacred place,<br />

Maghada’s Vajra Seat,<br />

And in o<strong>the</strong>r places,<br />

I will give as you have requested,<br />

Any instruction that you wish in monastic discipline,<br />

The transcendent perfections, and tantra.<br />

Having said this, Dorjé Denpa acted as preceptor for Kyungpo Naljor’s<br />

novice monk ordination. After he gave [him <strong>the</strong> monastic] name Tsultrim<br />

Gönpo, Lama Dorjé Denpa’s nose bled, [a sign that] Kyungpo Naljor<br />

could not change his name. At that time, <strong>the</strong> master exclaimed, “Kyungpo<br />

Yogi Maha Pala Pala!” [“Kyungpo Naljor, you have gained <strong>the</strong> great<br />

result!”]<br />

Dorjé Denpa first gave him <strong>the</strong> transmission of <strong>the</strong> Collection on<br />

Monastic Discipline [vinaya] and [Gunaprabha’s] treatise of The Main<br />

Discourse on Discipline. He followed this with a gradual transmission of <strong>the</strong><br />

discourses and tantras’ major texts and instructions. His teaching that was<br />

outstanding compared to all o<strong>the</strong>rs was based on <strong>the</strong> root explanatory<br />

tantra Ocean of Jewels—<strong>the</strong> empowerment and teachings for meditation on<br />

<strong>the</strong> Five Tantras’ Deities in a single sacred circle. Here is [Kyungpo Naljor’s<br />

song that relates] how he studied <strong>the</strong>se instructions:

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