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64. In other teachings Rinpoche has explained that “seal,” as in mahamudra, or “great seal,” refers to sealing the mind, as one does an envelope, making it inseparable with the meditational deity, or yidam. 65. Also known as The Sutra of Immaculate Space (Tib: nam-kha dri-ma me-pä do). See a similar quote in A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, p. 32. 66. Tib: dag-kyen, also called dominant or main condition; one of the four conditions giving rise to a moment of consciousness, the others being the focal condition (mig-kyen), the immediately preceding condition (de-ma-thag-kyen) and the causal condition (gyu-kyen). See How Karma Works, p. 135, n. 49. 67. A short film of this 1974 course and the things Rinpoche describes can be seen on the LYWA YouTube channel. 68. The American student John “Jampa” Laine. 69. V. 8. 70. For extended teachings on the qualities of the guru and of the disciple, see Heart of the Path, pp. 29–48. 71. Quoted in Heart of the Path, p. 114. 72. Kazi Dawa Samdup (1868–1923), who published An English-Tibetan Dictionary in Calcutta in 1919. He also translated and published with W. Y. Evans Wentz as editor the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa and Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines. See his very interesting entry in Wikipedia. 73. Ghoom is a small hilly locality five miles from Darjeeling , West Bengal, where Samten Chöling , Domo Geshe Rinpoche’s monastery, is located. This is where in 1967 the Lamas met Zina Rachevsky, their first Western student. 74. The Foundation of All Good Qualities. 75. V. 10. 76. Land of Compassion Buddha in West Covina, California. 77. See Heart of the Path, p. 155. 78. A well-known saying of the Buddha from the Ghanavyuha Sutra, this version is found on a plaque next to the Buddha statue in the Tsuglhakhang , His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s temple in Dharamsala. 79. The FPMT retreat center in Boulder Creek, Californi 80. The ten virtues are the opposites of the ten nonvirtues and so, instead of killing , the first virtue is not killing or saving lives and so forth. See Rinpoche’s forthcoming book on karma. 185
81. The railway town in the Punjab where you alight for the bus to Dharamsala. 82. See Heart of the Path, pp. 97–98, for the rest of this verse and a commentary upon it. 83. See also Heart of the Path, pp. 194–95. 84. In Dharamsala at the FPMT’s first Enlightened Experience Celebration, March, 1982. Published as The Gelug/Kagyü Tradition of Mahamudra. 85. V.49. 86. The festival (the third great deed) was established in 1409. The Maitreya statue (the first great deed) was renovated during Tibetan New Year in 1400, during the time Lama Tsongkhapa was doing his long retreat at Wolka ; Dzinchi is not far from there, in the general region of Lake Lhamo Latsho. The other two great deeds were giving an extensive Vinaya teaching with Jetsun Rendawa and Kyabchog Pal Zangpo at Namtse Deng in 1402, thereby revitalizing the monastic tradition (the second great deed), and constructing Ganden Monastery, which was completed in 1410 (the fourth great deed). 87. Tibetan New Year’s day, determined by the lunar calendar, it usually falls in February or March. See fpmt.org for more details. 88. Tib: Chö-trul Dü-chen. 89. A prayer of prostration, offering , refuge and a request for blessings containing several epithets of the Buddha: La ma tön pa chom dän dä de zhin sheg pa dra chom pa yang dag par dzog pä sang g yä päl g yäl wa shakya thub pa la/chhag tshäl lo chhö do kyab su chhi wo/jin g yi lab tu söl. 90. Tib: trag-trig. In the Tibetan system the large numbers are as follows: 100,000, bum; 1 million, sa-ya; 10 million, je-wa; 100 million, dung-chur; 1,000 million (US billion), ter-bum; 10 billion, ter-bum-chen-po; 100 billion, trag-trig; 1 trillion (Euro billion), trag-trig chen-po. See Teachings from the Vajrasattva Retreat, p. 531. See also “Tibetan numbers” at LamaYeshe.com. 91. The ten-ma goddesses are the twelve guardian deities of the Gelug tradition, associated with Palden Lhamo. 92. OM KRECHA RAGHANA HUM HRI SVAHA. 93. How to Enjoy Death: Preparing to Meet Life’s Final Challenge without Fear. Also available as a free download from fpmt.org as How to Help Your Loved Ones Enjoy Death and Go Hap- pily to Their Next Rebirth: A Handbook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. 94. Published as Practicing Five Powers Near the Time of Death. 95. Available from the Foundation Store as the Liberation Box: Tools for a Fortunate Rebirth. 96. See also The Perfect Human Rebirth: Freedom and Richness on the Path to Enlightenment, p. 115. 186
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