Malcolm wrote:michaelb wrote:Suddenly, HH Dalai Lama was right in front of me and put a khata around my neck and pulled it tight. I woke up gasping for breath.
Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen was murdered with a white kata. Sounds like the Gyalpo to me.
Yes, I know, but I'm not sure if I knew about the cause of Drakpa Gyaltsen's death at the time when I had my dream.
Regarding the attack on Chatral Sangye Dorje, an American monk I met in Tso Pema says he was there at the time. He said Chatral Sangye Dorje wrestled with his attacker who tried to strangle him, and eventually, with others' help, tied him to a tree before the police arrived. This American monk I knew, Dennis Tenzin, a long-time student of Dilgo Khyentse and Trulshik Rinpoche and family friend of Chatral Sangye Dorje, was full of talk about the gyalpo. He said he felt as if he was being attacked after he had dinner at a Tibetan friend's house and found out that friend was a student of a gyalpo lama. After that he had fallen down some stone steps, been hit by an auto-rickshaw and suffered other misfortunes. This was around 2002. He was in Tso Pema to do some Drolo practice. By time I left India/Nepal in 2005 he was dying of cirrosis of the liver.
I think it was Dennis' regular talk about the gyalpo that led to me being more worried about it and possibly led to the dream. (I had attended NKT classes in the '90s and Dennis was certain that something bad would befall me if I didn't get this empowerment or a blessing from that lama.)
On a 'positive' note, I'm pretty sure I had the dream about my lama dying after I had the Dalai Lama strangling me dream. Maybe that was the obstacle that was being cleared. But it's all quite a long while ago, and hanging around somewhere like Tso Pema, you can have lots of apparently important dreams.