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Kyabgon Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche passed away.
Suraj: Dear Friend of Kyabgon Kunzang Dechen Lingpa, We have just heard from the monastery in India that Rinpoche passed away. http://www.zangdokpalri.org/teacher.html As you can imagine the monks and nuns are very upset. Rinpoche was nearly 80 years old and for the last 6 years suffered from an extreme heart condition and was often on the brink of death. The doctors who treated him in the USA initially couldn't understand how he had survived. Through your generosity in the past we were able to get him a state of the art electronic heart pacemaker and that saved his life a few times. Those of us lucky enough to have gotten close to Rinpoche heard him relate again and again that he was at the end of his life and only wished to spend his final time in secluded meditation benefiting beings. He explained that that was the only method by which a meditation master such as he could attain the rainbow body, his life long dream. He spoke directly of abandoning that dream of a peaceful end in order to instead struggle, traveling the world to teach and heal and collect donations so that he could fulfill the vision of the completion of Zangdokpalri Temple and medical clinic on a Himalayan hilltop in Arunachal Pradesh, the poorest and least populated state in India. Clearly Rinpoche was suffering greatly in order to build this Temple to establish the foundations for the sangha of nearly 200 monks and nuns that spontaneously gathered around him as well as provide medical care to the local people. This temple is now only half complete. Nearly a hundred workers and artisans are working full time whenever there are funds available to pay them. The monastery council has prepared detailed accounts earlier this year that indicate a bare minimum of $250,000 is needed to finish just the temple. With these funds completion could comethis year, and with this aim in mind Rinpoche had recently scheduled to travel once again to England and the USA to obtain donations. Now that plan is just a thought. But we have an opportunity to not let Rinpoche's vision die with him. We can donate what we can and encourage others' participation so that Rinpoche's vision comes to fruition. We can join with him in deathlessness. When I got the news I was in a taxi heading over to a video and audio studio. Tapes of Rinpoche's last dzokchen teaching, "Pointing Out The Nature of Mind", have just been discovered by a professional cinematographer and we are working to make copies of this precious teaching available for his students. Those of us who donate 108 dollars can receive a gift of an audio cd of this teaching.Donations in excess of 250 dollars can receive a video DVD of the teaching. These teachings are clearly translated. Those of us who were lucky enough to be present were awestruck with the directness and compassion of the transmission. With obvious sadness but with joy knowing that we will join together with Rinpoche and see his vision fulfilled. Thank you, Moke Mokotoff for Zangdokpalri Foundation for Great Compassion 130 7th Avenue Box 221 New York NY 10011 www.zangdokpalri.org
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Suraj: Dear Beloved Sangha, Community of Friends, [Although many of you have already heard this sad news via Zangdokpalri Foundation and "word of mouth", it has been brought to our attention through confused e-mails and calls wondering what has really happened, that many of our beloved friends & community had not yet recieved this holy, precious, and very sad news. Therefore we decided to send this out. Thankyou for your patience.] On Tuesday, March 28th, at 12:30 pm, upon the cusp of the solar eclipse, Kyabgon Kunsang Dechen Lingpa passed away peacefully in India. "He remained in TUKDOM (with no vital signs but a warm heart and a state of deep meditational awareness) for two and one half days. His body remains in meditational posture and the plan is to preserve him as a KUDHONG, in a stupa." (From Zangdokpalri Organization) It has been suggested in general, recite Mani mantras, offer candles, and pray for Rinpoche's swift return. I also spoke with Traga Rinpoche, a wonderful Dzogchen yogi and the retreat master at Garchen Rinpoche's AZ center, who said that he had met Kyabgon Kunsang Dechen Lingpa previously in India and spoke highly of Rinpoche. He gave us some specific instructions for what is to be done by the students and disciples when such a high Lama and Great Being passes away. "As a group: 1. Say Vajrasattva, Chenrezig, and Amitabha mantras. 2. Light as many butter lamps as possible and say general prayers. 3. Make prayers together that his reincarnation is identified as soon as possible. 4. Confess all degenerated samayas together as a ceremony. Having confessed everything, pray that your own being will be filled with the blessing of the lama." Although Rinpoche mentioned this "as a group", I am sure this can be done individually as well. In LINCOLN, VT we WILL MEET TO PRACTICE TOGETHER in honor of KYABGON KUNSANG DECHEN LINGPA on SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd from 5:30-7:30 pm. We will do all the prayers together as above mentioned. We will start precisely at 5:30, but all are welcome at 5pm and thereafter to settle in. Please bring a snack to share as the last portion of our time together will be just community time and sharing together our celebration of the great blessing Kunsang Dechen Lingpa has been in our lives. Location: 210 ROBINSON RD. (802-453-3431/taradrolkar@gmavt.net for directions or information) As soon as we are sent any prayer written specifically for the swift rebirth of Kunsang Dechen Lingpa, we will pass this on. Also, the monks and nuns and entire monastic mandala there in India are having a difficult time. Please please make prayers for them. They have lost their mother/father/sustenance giver/friend, as well as Guru. There is still so much work to be done on their new monastery. And they are grieving tremendously. So please make prayers. Much love, and may we all be filled with the blessings of the great beings who have never been limited by their bodies anyway, and may the blessing of Kunsang Dechen Lingpa, his bodhicitta heart and clear light wisdom mind, pervade this earth and all realms, the activity of that spontaneously liberating all beings. much love- Elizabeth/ DDCV.
Suraj: Dear friends, I am writing from Rinpoche's nunnery, Tashi Choling in Assam. The senior monks have explained to me that about a month before he passed Rinpoche spoke to the monks close to him that there would be specifically 5 incarnations. On occasions when traveling in the past he had indicated that his incarnations would be reborn even in different countries. Rinpoche had often expressed his wish to pass in the presense of his monks and nuns at the Zangdolpalri Temple site. All indications are that he passed at will, having finished the annual drupchens at both the nunnery and the monastery and having given the Longevity Buddha Initiation (Tse Wang ) to nearly 10,000 people. Afterwards he was not feeling well but refused to go to the hospital. Dungse and Ani Tsering Paldron determined that his condition seemed dire and took him anyway to the local military hospital, his last words to his senior administrator monk Tsewang Dondup before leaving the temple project grounds were "You go on filling the statues with mantras and I will be back". His vital signs ceased about an hour after arriving at the hospital. They returned him to his room at the gompa (monastery) where Rinpoche remained in a state of deep meditational awareness sitting upright unassisted for 2 and half days (Tib: TUKDOM) When I asked the monks how they knew he had left tukdom they explained that Dungse (his son) wrote him a letter requesting him to leave tukdom as there were many students and sponsors waiting to pay respects to his body and that he knew it was not good to stay in that state of deep meditation too long. Dungse placed the letter before him and a storm rolled in during this particularly dry period. A bolt of lightening struck the pray flag pole in the center of the court yard and a down pour began, then a rainbow appeared just above his room. (see photos, which will be posted in the next few days at www.zangdokpalri.org "The passing of Kunzang Dechen Lingpa 2006"). His body had then lost its luster. Now the body is packed in dry salt and puja is to be constantly performed for 49 days. The salt is changed every 5 or 6 days and distributed to the faithful. A special stupa is being constructed which will contain the body in perpetuity. Rinpoche instructed the monks in this process during the last few months. Not only is Rinpoche's goal to construct the Zangdokpalri Temple still not completed, as well there are additional expenses to construct Rinpoche's stupa. Should any want to contribute tax deductable donations, send your check payable to Zangdokpalri Foundation for Great Compassion 130 7th Ave Box 221 New York NY 10011 Or donate online at "how to help" through that link at www.zangdokpalri.org There is the possibility that this year's scheduled Healing Cho tour will go on conducted by Rinpoche's son and the monks and nuns. Moke Mokotoff, Assam April 10, 2006
Suraj: April 16, 2006 Dear Friends, I am writing from the Zangdokpalri Temple in Arunachal Pradesh. The temple is nearly complete except for the painting and statues. These final details including windows and mosaic floors will probably take another 2 years. The best statue maker from Bhutan (in the world by my estimation) is here and some of the statues have been finished but are still unpainted and unconsecrated. The temple has an amazing consolidated form with the double dragons on the roof. More and more information is coming up indicating that Rinpoche knew he was going to pass at this time. He wrote a five page aspiration prayer when he was in California last fall and it is indicated quite clearly that he would have five tulkus and the circumstances of his passing including the rainbow above the kudhong and the thunder and lightening. That aspiration is being translated and is recited here at the monastery daily. Today I was shown the workshops he designated for specific prayers to be inserted into specific statues. That was the day before he passed. Apparently he was acting in such an energetic manner going around giving the monks and nuns what turned out to be his last directions that they particularly thought he was in the best shape. When he got sick the symptoms were a shortness of breath but no coughing. It had been three days since he gave the Long Life initiation to thousands and he had rested and picnicked the day before. At the hospital the doctors found nothing wrong with him in their diagnosis. Dungse Rinpoche and a small group of senior monks (usually including Pema Wangdu and /or Pema Tsedrup) perform puja all day and into the night before the kudhong . In the gompa pujas performed by nearly 100 monks and nuns are going on simultaneously led by Rinpoche's disciple the savant Jangdak Rinpoche ("Holder of the Jang Ter"). The idea is to perform 100,000 tsok prayers in the 49 days along with multiple prayers for Kunzang Dechen Lingpa's swift rebirth (see www.zangdokparlri.org in a day or two and click below the rainbow photo for translations of these prayers). Jangdak Rinpoche is quite convinced of Rinpoche's swift return, he accompanied him to the hospital and it's he who explained to me the interpretation of the aspiration prayer Rinpoche wrote in California. Jangdak Rinpoche is expected to determine Kunzang Dechen Lingpa's reincarnation by mirror divination, a skill he is renowned for. He just now came out of the assembly and alerted me that a vast rainbow had formed around the sun (see website later for image) KDL's son Dungse Rinpoche Rigdzin Dorje looks great, of course he is deeply saddened but he is hearty dharmically and has just agreed that he and 5 monks and nuns will tour America starting with Healing Cho at Kripalu June 30. He is quite prepared to teach on the tour. Rinpoche had called them all together after completing the Kurukulle drupchen in February and explained to them that the whole dharma is complete within the cycle of his tercho and that not only should they practice it but also propagate it. The Chorten containing the kudhong with all its extensive preparations and gilding will cost $100,000. That is in addition to the quarter million dollars they need to finish the temple. The Chorten needs to be completed in about 6 months. If anyone wants to make donations for its completion you can send those tax deductible donations to Zangdokpalri Foundation NY with such a notation. The monastic council has requested photos of donors to be included in an eventual presentation album, so include such a photo if you wish. Yours on the path, Moke
Suraj: Dear Friend, Rinpoche has continued to exhibit signs of his enlightened transference and the efficacy of his revealed teachings. The monastery reported a steady rainbow ring occurring in the dark night sky when the salt was changed the other night. The pujas for the 49 day period since Rinpoche passed will end today. Auspiciously Kyabje Dungse Thrinley Norbu Rinpoche's prayer for the swift rebirth of Kyabje Kunzang Dechen Lingpa arrived today and is posted at http://www.zangdokpalri.org/rebirth1.html. This succinct prayer articulates the essence of the Buddhist teachings while directly evoking our teacher's compassionate aspirations.
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