My guru, kind-in-three-ways, who met face to face with Heruka, whose name I find difficult to utter…
Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche Dechen Nyingpo was an unbelievable lama who lived in the early part of the twentieth century [biography].
His two main students, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, were the most highly esteemed Gelugpa Lamas of their day, so respected that they were chosen to guide the education of the Dalai Lama when he was recognized and enthroned.
Pabongka Rinpoche, a recognized reincarnation of Chankya Rolpai Dorje, was the one who was responsible for widely propagating the practice of Dorje Shugden among the Gelugpa tradition.
As a result of the attempts in recent decades to convince the world that Dorje Shugden is a worldly Deity, Je Pabongka’s reputation and lineage has come under attack, so I thought it would be nice for students who practice in his lineage to see, once again, that things are not as cut and dried as his detractors would have you believe.
Scholars and yogis, please check!
Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey on Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche
He was such a great lama, unsurpassed by any, that hardly any lamas or geshes of the Three Pillars (the monasteries of Ganden, Sera and Drepung) had not been his disciples.
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Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche on Je Pabongka Part 1
This feeling of renunciation was overwhelming. These are some of the ways in which all of his discourses were so extraordinary.
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Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche on Je Pabongka Part 2
Our childish minds were unfit vessels for so vast an ocean of teachings…
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Kyabje Zong Rinpoche on Je Pabongka Part 1
Kyabje Pabongka had such vast qualities it is difficult to comprehend them…
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Kyabje Zong Rinpoche on Je Pabongka Part 2
Mahasiddha Pabongka Rinpoche has a long history and during his time the Dharma increased greatly in Tibet. He was actually Heruka Demchok.
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Sermey Jetsun Khen Rinpoche Losang Tharchin on Je Pabongka Part 1
An unbelievable expert on all subjects
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Sermey Jetsun Khen Rinpoche Losang Tharchin on Je Pabongka Part 2
He displayed tremendous abilities as a public teacher…
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Sermey Jetsun Khen Rinpoche Losang Tharchin on Je Pabongka Part 3
I felt as though I had received his blessing, and some special power to pursue my studies…
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Lama Zopa on Je Pabongka Part 1
It’s impossible that he can really be some kind of evil being, as those extremists accuse him of being…
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Ribur Rinpoche on Je Pabongka
The only thing that matters to me is that I was a disciple of Pabongka Rinpoche.
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Glenn Mullin on Je Pabongka
Undoubtedly the greatest living Gelukpa lama of the period…
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Michael Richards on Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche
Pabongka Rinpoche was probably the most influential Gelug lama of this century, holding all the important lineages of sutra and tantra and passing them on to most of the important Gelug lamas of the next two generations; the list of his oral discourses is vast in depth and breadth.
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Tsewang
April 17, 2015
E Ma Ho !
May all those negative influences that harm the teaching of the victorious ones through their perverted aspirations –
Those with form and those without form (Shugden) –
All those who work with malicious intentions,
Be annihilated through the truth of the Three Jewels !
Eli Buchen
April 19, 2015
May Je Pabongka manifest his budddhahood again for the world to bear witness and turn the wheel of dharma for those who are still obscured from the truth.
Sofia Neumerkel
April 19, 2015
So many renown masters had written their encounters with Kyabje Pabongkha Rinpoche and his attainments were proven by looking at how great his disciples were. The discourse he gave on Lamrim is studied by everyone in Gelug tradition. If he was a bad lama without any attainment, why is the text still used in the monastery?
I feel really sad that there are people who criticized Kyabje Pabongkha Rinpoche and tried to put him down. Disparaging a Buddha creates extremely bad karmas, I hope these people realize that.
May
claudio cipullo
March 16, 2017
Endlessly I bow down to the Greater Lama of this era Paponka Dorje Chan.italychampatogme alias claudiocipullo.
Dalai Lama should set things right
August 12, 2018
Dear Dalai Lama,
Since you started the cruel ban against the 350 year Dorje Shugden practice, how has it benefit your Tibetan society and Buddhism in the world? Things have become worse and most educated Tibetans can see this. They don’t speak out not because they don’t see your ban as wrong, but you instill fear in them and not respect. It is like fear of a dictator. I am sorry to say so. Everyone is divided. There is no harmony. Before your ban there was more harmony and unity.
By enacting the ban, you split the monasteries, split so many families, split regions in Tibet apart, split your disciples from you, split your own gurus from you, split Tibetan Buddhism apart. You have created so much disharmony.
It is not democratic what you have done to ban a religion within your community. You always talk of tolerance and acceptance and democracy and yet you do not accept and tolerate something different from your beliefs. When people practice Dorje Shugden you ostracize them, ban them from seeing you, ban them from using Tibetan facilities. You know you have done that. There are videos that capture your speech and prove this point. You even had people expelled from monasteries just because they practice Dorje Shugden. Some of the monks you expelled have been in the monastery for over 40 years. Many older monks shed tears because of this.
Many young educated Tibetans lost confidence in you as they saw the damage the Dorje Shugden ban created and they lose hope. Many have become free thinkers. They reject what you have done. So many people in the west left Buddhism because of the confusion you created with this ban against Dorje Shugden which is immoral.
You could of had millions of people who practice Dorje Shugden to support, love and follow you, but you scared them away. They are hurt and very disappointed. They loved you and respected you deeply before the ban. It has been 60 years and you have failed to get Tibet back. Your biggest failure is not getting Tibet back after 57 years in exile. Now you are begging China to allow you to return to Tibet to the disappointment of thousands of people who fought for a free Tibet believing in you. So many self-immolated for a free Tibet and now you want Tibet to be a part of China with no referendum from Tibetans. Just like a dictator, you decide on your own. It was your government and you that lost Tibet in the first place. Your policies and style of doing things do not benefit Tibet and Buddhism. You have been the sole ruler of Tibet your whole life and you still have not gotten our country of Tibet back for us. Our families and us are separated. Yet you create more pain by creating a ban to further divide people. Please have compassion.
No other Buddhist leader has banned or condemned any religion except for you. It looks very bad. You are a Nobel laureate and this is not fitting of a laureate. You should unite people and not separate them by religious differences.
You said Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi did not do right to the Rohingya people in Myanmar due to religious differences, but you are doing the same thing to the Shugden Buddhists within your own society. There is a parallel in this. You separate the Shugden Buddhists from the others in Tibetan society.
You have lost so many people who would have loved and supported you. You have lost so much support around the world. The Shugden Buddhists who love you number in the millions. When you are fast losing support from governments and private people, it will not do you well to lose more.
After you are passed away in the future, the rift you created between the Dorje Shugden and non-Dorje Shugden people will remain for a while and that will be your legacy. Disharmony. You will be remembered for this. Not as a hero but a disharmony creator.
Dorje Shugden will spread and further grow, but you will be no more as you are a human. No one wishes you bad and in fact we hope you have a long and healthy life, but we have lost so much hope and have so much despair because of you. All the hundreds of Dorje Shugden lamas, tulkus and geshes are maturing and there are hundreds of Dorje Shugden monasteries in Tibet who will not give up Dorje Shugden. You have made a mistake. These hundreds of teachers and teachers to be will spread Dorje Shugden further in the future.
The gurus that gave us Dorje Shugden as a spiritual practice and you have called these holy gurus wrong and they are mistaken in giving us Dorje Shugden. How can you insult our gurus whom we respect so much? If they can be wrong, then you can be wrong. Then all gurus can be wrong. So no one needs to listen to any guru? You have created this trend. It is not healthy. Your own gurus practiced Dorje Shugden their whole lives. Your own gurus were exemplary and highly learned.
Dalai Lama you have created so much pain with this ban against so many people due to religion. You are ageing fast. Are you going to do anything about it or stay stubborn, hard and un-moving. You show a smile and preach peace and harmony wherever you go. But will you do the same to your own people? Please rectify the wrong you have done. Please before it is too late. You can create harmony again or you can pass away in the future with this legacy of peace. May you live long and think carefully and admit what was a mistake in having this unethical ban against Dorje Shugden religion.