Lama Zopa Rinpoche

47. 1374–1434. He actually resides in Maitreya’s Yiga Chödzin Palace in the pure land of
Tushita. There are several versions of the Dolgyal origin story.
48. 1619–56. The Dalai Lama says it is doubtful that Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen was the
reincarnation of Duldzin Dragpa Gyaltsen.
49. Tib: nam-se ta-dag g yä, the keepers of the horses of Vaishravana, one of the four
directional guardians.
50. This was the morning of 3 March 1984.
51. As of March 2016, the Mars rover, Curiosity, is discovering more and more evidence of
all the factors needed to have life, such as running water, methane and the five principal
elements.
52. This topic is covered extensively in Rinpoche’s Liberating Animals from the Danger of Death
and Other Ways to Benefit Them. There is also a CD of Rinpoche’s Recitations for Animals. Both
are available from the FPMT. See also Practices for Benefiting Animals on the LYWA website.
53. The FPMT retreat center in the far north of England that was purchased during
Rinpoche’s 2014 visit.
54. The Basic Program is an FPMT course of study that has been taught at Chenrezig
Institute since 1997. Three full rounds have been completed and the fourth started in 2015.
55. A refugee identification card that few countries recognize.
56. Find the root text and commentary at LamaYeshe.com. See also Tsongkhapa’s The
Fulfillment of All Hopes.
57. In Highest Yoga Tantra the practitioner learns to control the winds (the psychic energ y
that flows through the body), chakras (the energ y wheels located along the central psychic
channel) and drops (subtle substances within the body).
58. A small village and pilgrimage site near Kathmandu where Padmasambhava is said to
have attained high tantric realizations. It is also the site of an important Vajrayogini temple
and a self-emanating Tara.
59. Vv. 51 & 52.
60. V. 53.
61. A town in southern Tibet not far from the Nepalese border.
62. Quoted in Heart of the Path, p. 176.
63. See also Heart of the Path, pp. 109–10.
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