My friend, Tenzin, who was also a student of Geshe Logsang Gyatso from Kham, Tibet originally who traveled with the Dalai Lama from Lhasa to India in their escape from the Chinese who were strafing them with machine gun fire by air as they escaped Tibet on food and by river rafts and on horseback. Luckily, the Chinese likely didn't have helicopters that could fly at that altitude near Lhasa or the Dalai Lama and his party would all have been killed then.
So, Tenzin used to make me laugh in Dharamshala because he was a mountain climbing guide who had been originally a Tibetan Monk but had to give Geshela (Geshe Lobsang Gyatso) his robes so he would work to support his parents while they got old and died. This appears to be quite a common thing to do for Tibetans when their parents get old by the way.
Tenzin met a lady from Minnesota I believe who went by the name of Tara and they moved I believe to Saint paul, Minnesota in 1986. I was in Dharamshala in January 1986 and in February 1986 we were in Rewalsar because many monks and Lamas said I need to go to this Padmasambhava Holy place. They were right! Because Saint Germain told me there that he had been Padmasambhava as one of his many incarnations here on earth, along with Merlin, Milarepa, Saint Francis of Asisi and many others.
When Tenzin, the Mountain climbing guide and Tibetan Monk told me stories about Drukpa Kunley I laughed so hard I fell on the floor in Dharamshala. Tenzin's English was excellent from hanging out with American and English and Australian and New Zealand and Canadian Mountain Climbers while climbing peaks throughout the Himalayas by the way.
It was 20 years later when I realized that Drukpa Kunley was actually a real person in Bhutan which sort of blew my mind that this person actually existed. So, this was a revelation to me at the time as I read more about Drukpa Kunley. Because he was a really amazing Crazy Wisdom Tibetan Dharma practitioner during the 1400s AD.
No comments:
Post a Comment