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About this talk. In this 58-minute session at Buddha House, Khensur Rinpoche works through a catalogue of empowerments and teachings he received from masters across India, with a translator helping spell out names for the record. Transmissions documented include those from Trichang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche (the Dalai Lama’s two tutors), the Dalai Lama himself, and teachers at Sera Monastery and the Lower Tantric College in Karnataka — covering Lamrim, Guhyasamāja generation and completion stages, Hayagrīva empowerments, and the twenty-four-hour Mahāyāna precepts. Rinpoche also identifies teachers in photographs, notes that thirteen monasteries founded by his lineage-holder Ngawang Punsog were largely destroyed around 1959, and names his first teacher Maru Khenpo. A rare document of one master’s transmission lineage rather than a formal dharma talk.
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File: 22 RS 1988 03 29.mp3
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Teacher: Khensur Rinpoche
Collection: Rinpoche's Story (Khensur Rinpoche)
Date: 1988-03-29
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 58.6 minutes
Words: ~2,020
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. This is Wednesday, the twenty ninth of March nineteen eighty nine, and I’m down at Buddha House to have a second interview session this trip with Rinpoche with Jampa translating. We were going through the empowerments that we received in India. Mhmm. And then Just a minute.
Let me so think we’ve really started much, did we? This is the empowerment from That’s not that’s not right. No. This this is all into that. Isn’t it this could be in India?
You mean this starting with India? Yeah. Okay. Then then then Who who was it? Trichang, t r I c h a n g.
Trichang was the junior tutor who died about four years ago. Can we just go over the teachings you got from? Yeah. This is in Dharmasala, I guess. Yeah. Yeah.
But I’ve got that under the. Yeah. But he also received. Oh, okay. Danny?
Ling Rinpoche? Ling. G e l o n g, d e m. J g a w a n g, s h e g. Is that it? Yeah.
Is is he? Yeah. That was a senior tutor. That’s a. That was he died about three years ago, four years ago too.
About five years ago. And Ling Rinpoche was a senior tutor and Trichang Rinpoche was a junior tutor. There’s pictures. See the one on the upper left hand corner? Yeah.
That’s Trichang Rinpoche’s chair. The one directly behind is the Ling Rinpoche chair. It’s. Who? He lives in Switzerland.
Oh, we talked about him yesterday. Yeah. No. Yeah. We mentioned him.
Yes. He’s a new incarnation. No. No. No.
He’s still he’s about eighty years old. Yeah. Of the twenty-one Taras. Permission of the twenty-one Taras. This is an empowerment too?
Yeah. But it’s called a permission rather than empowerment. Yeah. Actually, we got them in a different one. It’s called this one.
There’s another one called the permission. We just got it. It’s preliminary. This one’s also Rays of the Sun? Rays of the Radiant Sun?
Rays. R A Y S. Thought Transformation. Teaching on that. Ling Rinpoche’s photo.
Mhmm. It’s Ling Rinpoche underneath. Yeah. Yeah. It’s just the one photo of him.
Yeah. This oh, there’s one too. There’s two photos of him. Above it. There’s one in the the middle left.
Yeah. And then next to the Dalai Lama on the top row. Yeah. Left side. Control.
Control. Mhmm. Then empowerment. Like, business all in Dharmasala, or what about in India? Yeah.
That’s that’s where — the village of Mundgod in South India. M U N D G O D I think it’s spelled. That’s where he received this. So this this is in Oh, yes.
These three were in Hunsur, Hunsur, that’s at the Lower Tantric College. Lower Tantric College. Where is that? It’s in Karnataka, Southern India. Karnataka.
Karnataka, k a r n a t a k a. Karnataka. I’m not really I’m not clear on. So when the — so from the Dalai Lama, a teaching on the great exposition of the stages of the path from the Dalai Lama? This is another one.
This teaching from Dalai Lama. I haven’t got it down, have I? No. So again, sorry — great exposition of the stages of the path.
This is a teaching on the stages of the path at monastery. Were all the others empowerments? Should I have noted that? I mean, these up to here, these are all empowerments. Then empowerment from Dalai Lama.
Hayagrīva. Just write the name. Hayagrīva. Yeah. Hayagrīva.
Yeah. At the Sera Monastery. Sera? Yeah. Indy?
Yeah. One, Yangsang. Yang, y a n g. S a n g. And then — this is another form of Hayagrīva.
I have to check out. Riksum, r i k s u m. Gyalpo. Gyalpo.
Sine. So we just have to so these are two forms of this. So from from? Empowerment. Where are we?
Empowerment. I’m up here. Mandala. Okay. At the Namgyal monastery.
God. The empowerment. At generating and completion stage. The teaching of the generating and completion stage of Guhyasamāja mandala. From the from the Dalai Lama, the teaching.
Engaging in the bodhisattva engaging in the bodhisattva deeds? Engaging in the bodhisattva deeds. This is a teaching? Yeah. I put.
Mhmm. And from the Dalai Lama Empowerment of Chenrezig? Have you got that before? Maybe. I’ve got one here.
Yeah. Bodhgaya. Bhurgaya. One time or two times? Teaching on the view.
That means the four something like and there’s something like the four mindfulnesses, but I checked in with the text English. Mhmm. Four mindfulnesses. And that’s New Delhi. New Delhi.
Teaching on. Teaching Teaching Teaching Teaching Teaching Teaching on. Deities. Teaching on the ten wrathful deities. This is with…
Khensur Namgyal. The abbot of Namgyal monastery. This is in…
No. So this is this teaching was given in Mungo. He’s gonna he’s gonna say was given in Mungo. You’re giving? He no.
This teacher gave this teaching in Mungo. Oh, not Dhamsar. Oh, this — I’m just saying that Namgyal College is in Dharmasala, but he wasn’t in Dharmasala when he gave this teaching. Okay. Okay.
Fine. C h u n g, I think it is. This is a series of empowerments. Let’s see. It’s a series of empowerments.
I have to find out where I’m chasing. It’s about four hundred. Then another another teacher. Kirti, k i r t i, Tsenshab, T S H E N S H A B, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche. Long time ago.
You want to keep keep writing teachings? No. Give me — g y u m e y, Ken Gyumey, m e, Khensur, k h e n s u r. Yeah. That’s Gyumey, it means Lower Tantric College? Oh.
Lower Tantric College. Khensur Rinpoche Che? Mhmm. That’s the second middle row, the right hand. Oh, good.
He was in Austria last few months about five months ago. Okay. Good evening. In a room, she went to see him in Sydney. Is that right?
Sydney. And was there too? At Sera Monastery, he gave the teaching. At Sera and in Sydney. So that’s two times.
Two. And the teaching on stages in the paths and grounds of secret mantra. Paths and grounds of secret mantra. Teaching on generation and completion stages. Oh, it’s not secret.
And I said I see. Then another teacher. Sera Je Khensur. C h u g.
And then this same teaching. And Gyumey Khensur Rinpoche? Teaching from Gyumey Khensur Rinpoche? On Guhyasamāja generation and completion stages.
The generation completion stage teachings of Guhyasamāja. Guhyasamāja. Alright. Okay. Where was that?
This was Sera. What’s Sera? Sera. And the others were Sera too. Sera Je.
You want to the this way to be said this before. Write down the number. Empowerment write down that two day wardrobe. Can I just put Empowerment? And then he took the from the on the dilemma?
Mhmm. You you need a Me too. He took the Then did — took the twenty-four-hour Mahāyāna precepts from the Dalai Lama. Twenty-four-hour Mahāyāna precepts. Then they did it too.
Then they did my other one? That’s clear now. Can I twenty four hour Mahāyāna precepts? Praise to dependent arising. Prayers.
Praise? Praise. Praise to dependent Mhmm. dependent arising. So then another teaching is called — I have to check the translation — called Södhüma.
Lam Rim Södhüma. Lam Rim. L A M. R i m Södhüma. That’s something like lines of experience.
I think it’s called lines of experience. I have to check it. Yeah. I’m in. You know, eventually, get it all typed up.
Have to change orders and times, but then you might put different Then another teacher. I agree with that. Empowerment. Permission — the permission of the protector Jangsi. Jangsi.
I don’t know who teaching. I don’t know quite the title to this. Just write down this Jampal, j a m p a l, Tsanjya, t s a n j a, Gya, g y a. Something like the hundred names of Mañjuśrī. Mhmm.
This is another one? Yeah. I think by Pänchen Lama. Oh. I have to check up what it is.
He received this from the Pänchen Lama. No. There’s from the Dalai Lama. Okay. But the song in there.
The author of this text. Yeah. Don’t do it. Don’t use it. So that’s maybe that’s sufficient.
Good. Good. Certainly probably enough for now, and then if it gets typed up, I’ll write it all out and send it to you. Yeah. And then.
Gchig Atye. Ngawang Punsog, n g a w a n g, Punsog, p h u n t s o g. He’s the founder. So he’s the founder. This person here.
When? I wonder when it was found at which Dalai Lama’s time perhaps? Maybe the same time as the first Dalai Lama, Gendün Druppa. He he founded thirteen monasteries in that in in that area. One of which was Darjeel.
And the biggest was. And I’m just sweeping when I was hearing, we’d have to have him write all these things down actually. No. It’s the York. York.
New New New York. So so these are the ones that are remaining in the restaurant have been destroyed by the Chinese? By the Chinese. Just recently? The remaining ones.
Before the Chinese came, they were they they existed. The thirteen existed, but now they’re the only ones who were there. This is it’s it’s around about nineteen fifty nine. So when Rinpoche left, they were all existing, were they? So some of them had had gone out of existence before the Chinese.
So these are the ones who left. But, yeah, this wouldn’t be correct, what I said. Yeah. That’s that’s right. But they they they weren’t particularly destroyed by the Chinese.
There were seven high high Tulkus Oh. At that time. Do you want do do you want to write down do you want to write down the stone? Yeah. But but that was the because we got there, but she’s saying she was So the so the one who made who Memberjay’s hair?
Where he went to study in the winter? Mhmm. Yeah. So yeah. So this g y a d a name, Mönsang. From where? Thank you.
Can I send that? Hold on. Mönsang. Yeah. Rinpoche got his name from him.
If you want to publish that picture Yeah. They sure. So maybe if you’d like — Maru NaKhenpo. His first teacher, I got that picture. In Kathmandu.
Kathmandu? How did he get it? Around the seat? Yeah. One of his previous attendants had it or gave it to him in Kathmandu. One of his relatives. Yeah.
He took he took this picture. Oh, he he was related to Ganden Rinpoche. I think it was his brother-in-law, wasn’t it? Yeah. It wasn’t a blood relation.
Whatever. And he was — I’m just asking when he died. Maybe when he went to Chamdo. Because his incarnation’s about forty, and Rinpoche said he’s rebuilding. Those buildings.
You beat him with a stick. He’s happy. Yeah. Harder. Harder.
Harder. Don’t know. We have to eventually, we have we have to write these out in Tibetan. That’s cool. And then, know, then I can phoneticize it.
Otherwise, but you have to remember roughly what they are. The director of Tibet House in Delhi, New Delhi. Dölbön. No. The next one is Dölbön, d o l b o n, something like Dölbön.
D o l b? O n. I think he spells it. Dölbön Tulku. Dölbön.
Dobong Tulku. Dzin, Zanong, n a n g. Chuku. Are these all incarnations?
They’re all all. This one too? Mhmm. Should Rinpoche be himself included? He’s not.
Don’t think he is. He’s not a tulku. Okay. Ngedar Rinpoche, Ngedar Rinpoche, Ngedar sometimes Tulku. Rinpoche, sometimes Tulku.
Tulku means they have to be definitely reincarnation. So are these Tulkus or are they just Rinpoche? These are all Tulkus. They’re all Tulkus. Yeah.
But if I use the word Rinpoche then Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you want to