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Summer Festival 2006
Good afternoon. Today you will receive the blessing empowerment of Dorje Shugdän, which means that you will receive the special blessings of this Buddha. This empowerment makes a special connection between you and the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugdän - so that you will have the opportunity to rely upon this precious Dharma Protector, who gives you great meaning in this life and in future lives.
We know that it is quite common nowadays for people to say that Dorje Shugdän has problems. Dorje Shugdän has no problems at all! He is an enlightened being who is completely free from samara’s problems. The problem is a human problem created by political people. These people created a problem to fulfil their own wishes, not for any benefit.
We should never allow ourself to be discouraged. We can do this by concentrating on the truth. Now I need to tell the truth! This is my job you know! Otherwise, who will do this? No one has the freedom, only me. So, the truth is as follows: Dorje Shugdän is a Dharma Protector who is a manifestation of Je Tsongkhapa. Je Tsongkhapa appears as the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugdän to protect his doctrine from degenerating.
During his life Je Tsongkhapa founded and established the doctrine of the Ganden Oral Lineage which leads living beings to the attainment of permanent liberation from suffering and the supreme happiness of enlightenment very quickly. Of course, Je Tsongkhapa himself takes responsibility for preventing his doctrine from degenerating or disappearing. He takes responsibility for ensuring that his doctrine remains from generation to generation.
To do this, since he passed away, he continually appears in many different aspects such as in the aspect of a teacher who teaches the Ganden Oral Lineage. Previously he appeared as the Mahasiddha Dharmavajra, more recently he appeared as Je Phabongkhapa, the spiritual teacher of Trijang Dorjechang. He appeared in the aspect of these teachers, and he also appears in the aspect of different Dharma Protectors, as Kalarupa, and later as Dorje Shugdän.
In Extensive Prayers to Dorje Shugdän the great yogi and scholar Kelsang Khedrub said “Although you attained enlightenment many years ago. You appear in various kinds of aspect in order to benefit living beings and the doctrine. You possess the twenty-seven good qualities of a Buddha. Oh Vajradhara Dorje Shugdän I prostrate to you.” Then he listed some of Dorje Shugdän’s former reincarnations which were during Buddha’s time: the Bodhisattva Manjushri, and later the Mahasiddha Biwawa, the great Sakya Pandita, and Butön Rinchen Drub.
These holy beings are also Je Tsongkhapa’s former reincarnations. From this we can understand that Dorje Shugdän’s former reincarnations and Je Tsongkhapa’s former reincarnations are the same. So it is clear that Je Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugdän are the same mental continuum - one person but different aspects. For these reasons I am saying that Dorje Shugdän is a manifestation of Je Tsongkhapa. There is no doubt about this.
Je Tsongkhapa himself appears as Dorje Shugdän in order to prevent his doctrine of the Ganden Oral Lineage from degenerating, by pacifying obstacles, gathering necessary conditions, and bestowing powerful blessings upon practitioners of this doctrine. If we continually rely upon Dorje Shugdän with faith, he will care for us like a mother cares for her child. He will guide us to correct paths, or liberating paths, he will pacify our obstacles and gather necessary conditions, and we will receive his powerful blessings through which our wisdom, compassion, and spiritual power will increase.
Through this we can easily make progress along the quick path to enlightenment that is shown to us by Je Tsongkhapa. Understanding this please be happy to receive this empowerment which gives you great meaning in this life and in life after life. And also please rejoice in your good fortune.
Our motivation should not be self-cherishing, but compassion for all living beings. You should think “I want to liberate, permanently, all living beings who are my mother, from the sufferings of sickness, ageing, death, and the cycle of rebirth. For this purpose I will receive the special blessings of the wisdom Dharma Protector Dorje Shugdän.” Please generate this pure motivation....
