Ling Rinpoche in January 1986

 One day my family and I were staying in Dharamshala, India where the Dalai Lama lives. I was traveling in Asia from December 1985 until April of 1986 with my 3 older children and my then wife at that time.

Geshe Lobsang Gyatso we had met at the Kalachakra initiation (even though at the time I had no idea before this what the Kalachakra initiation actually was before going to Bodhgaya, India and receiving this 4 day initiation with 500,000 others then. It was a completely remarkable experience. 

Then later we went with him and his translator Lobsang to Dharamshala by Train and Bus by way of Varanasi and the Taj Mahal and New Delhi on the way to Dharamshala, India.

I was worried about Rowshan my stepdaughter because she had a bad reaction to medicine in New Delhi and went into seizures so I got my family out of New Delhi up into the mountains of Dharamshala where things like Delhi Belly (similar to Montezuma's revenge) don't tend to live in more rarified less tropical kinds of climates which was successful. There was a Tibetan Doctor called Lady Dolma who had these huge jars of brown herbal remedies which were successful in treating my step daughter and son while in Dharamshala so everyone got well there in the 6000 feet high mountain town of Dharamshala. (the same altitude as Lake Tahoe pretty much in California).

One Day Thubten which was Geshe Lobsang Gyatso's nephew who was a mountain climbing guide while supporting his parents retirement who had been a Tibetan Buddhist Monk before then told us we had been invited to meet a Very High Tibetan Buddhist Lama and we were going to walk there. It must have been likely a 5 mile walk uphill to around 7000 feet where my family and I came to a slate roofed rock house. 

When we knocked at the door far away from other houses in the wilderness of this area, two Tibetan Buddhist Monks answered the door and were expecting us. Sitting on a Table in the Maitreya Mudra position was Ling Rinpoche. At first I wondered why he wasn't moving and then I realized he was deep in meditation of a sort I had never seen before in person. So, I had Thubten ask the monks whether he was ever coming back to live in this physical world in that body and they said, "No"

So, I was witnessing something very unusual and not seen in the western world at all.

I experienced Maitreya's heaven being projected out from Ling Rinpoche's body into the physical world and I felt changed by this experience in a deeply profound way because my father had just passed on about 6 months before this so I went outside at one point and cried in a profound way dealing with this moment as well as my father's passing as well.

This might be one of the most amazing spiritually empowering experiences of my life "meeting" Ling Rinpoche in this way after he was mostly passed over at this point to another world and likely Maitreya's heaven which I was experiencing being next to his powerful Aura as a Tibetan Buddhist Master who had run Tibet while the Dalai Lama was growing up until he was 18.

By God's Grace