Lama Zopa Rinpoche

30. Khedrub Sang ye Yeshe (1525–91) was Gyalwa Ensapa’s closest disciple. Quoted in
Heart of the Path, p. 7.
31. Quoted in Heart of the Path, p. 8.
32. Quoted in Heart of the Path, p. 26.
33. Drigung Kyobpa Jigten Rinpoche (1143–1217), better known as Jigten Sumgön, was the
founder of the Drikung Kag yü lineage.
34. From Song of the Fivefold Profound Path of Mahamudra, quoted in Khenchen Konchog
Gyaltshen, Opening the Treasure of the Profound: Teachings on the Songs of Jigten Sumgön and
Milarepa, p. 79.
35. For the text of the guru devotion section, see Heart of the Path, appendix 5, pp. 407–14.
Pabongka Rinpoche’s commentary on The Essence of Nectar has not been published in
English.
36. Ripening karma is the karma that propels us into the next life.
37. The sutra that Rinpoche is probably referring to is the Filial Piety Sutra, a sutra revered
by Chinese and S.E. Asian Buddhists, in which the Buddha lists ten ways a mother is kind,
directly paralleling the Tibetan listing in the kindness of the mother bodhicitta teachings. See
www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/filial-sutra.htm
38. Vajrapani Institute, the FPMT center in California where Lama Yeshe was cremated.
39. Composed by the First Panchen Lama, Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen (1570-1662). Included
in Path to Bliss, by the Dalai Lama.
40. Quoted in Heart of the Path, p. 239.
41. Quoted in Heart of the Path, p. 95.
42. See treasuryoflives.org , Shingza Pandita Lobzang Darg ye Gyatso (1752–1824).
43. See Robert Thurman’s The Central Philosophy of Tibet for a translation of this text.
44. Shugden and Dolgyal are names for the same worldly protector. Rinpoche uses both but
in this series of teachings seems to prefer Dolgyal. See the foreword Rinpoche refers to in
the Dorje Shugden section of LamaYeshe.com.
45. There used to be an FPMT center, Manjushri Institute, in Cumbria in the north of
England, founded in 1976.
46. Heart of the Path, appendix 8, pp. 429–31. See also Lamrim Chenmo, vol. 1, pp. 78–81.
Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol (1781–1851) was a tantric practitioner and prolific writer and
said to be an emanation of Milarepa. See The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan
Yogin.
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