Murder of Akong Rinpoche & Entourage

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Jikan wrote:This is a terrible loss.

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to be clear: this is the Chengdu we're speaking of, correct?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu

I'd heard this was the least unpleasant city in China...
When I was in Chengdu it was an excellent and very safe city (with the best food in China), that was some time ago though.
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Perhaps this will help with our meditation on impermanence and death, where it is pointed out that none of us knows if we will be alive tomorrow. The issues, dramas, criticisms and reservations about life we all have can vanish in an instant.
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I can't believe this ... this is tragic and sad ... my prayers go to his family and all the people who do have a connection with him!
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This is shattering news.
I first met Akong Rinpoche when he and CTR set up Samye Ling and have seen him at intervals since.

May he and all beings find peace.

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smcj wrote:Perhaps this will help with our meditation on impermanence and death, where it is pointed out that none of us knows if we will be alive tomorrow. The issues, dramas, criticisms and reservations about life we all have can vanish in an instant.
I repeat this. :buddha1:
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H.E. Kentin Tai Situpa has asked students and well-wishers of Akong Rinpoche to do the Milarepa Guru Yoga or at the very least to repeat the supplication to Jetsun Milarepa (Je Mila Shepa Dorje la solwandepso) many times during the 49-day period Rinpoche will spend in the bardo.

49-days of prayers will begin in Samye Ling tomorrow. There is still no news of where and when Rinpoche's funeral will take place.
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where can we get these prayers?
If the thought of demons
Never rises in your mind,
You need not fear the demon hosts around you.
It is most important to tame your mind within....

In so far as the Ultimate, or the true nature of being is concerned,
there are neither buddhas or demons.
He who frees himself from fear and hope, evil and virtue,
will realize the insubstantial and groundless nature of confusion.
Samsara will then appear as the mahamudra itself….

-Milarepa

OMMANIPADMEHUNG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6P9tOYmdo
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"Je Mila Shay Pa Dorje La sol Wa Deb So"

That's the short Supplication.
I'd recommend people get the actual Guru Sadhana only if they have the empowerment, explanation, etc.

But the supplication can be repeated by anyone...
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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but where can we get the short supplication prayers ?
If the thought of demons
Never rises in your mind,
You need not fear the demon hosts around you.
It is most important to tame your mind within....

In so far as the Ultimate, or the true nature of being is concerned,
there are neither buddhas or demons.
He who frees himself from fear and hope, evil and virtue,
will realize the insubstantial and groundless nature of confusion.
Samsara will then appear as the mahamudra itself….

-Milarepa

OMMANIPADMEHUNG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6P9tOYmdo
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I just gave it to you, dude...as did Knotty Veneer, originally.


You want it written in Tibetan? Translated into English?

"Je Mila Shay Pa Dorje La sol wa Deb so."

("I supplicate the Laughing Vajra, Lord Mila")

If you want Tibetan, you gotta wait until I get to my Mac...or have time to find WiFi for my iPhone. :smile:
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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conebeckham wrote:"Je Mila Shay Pa Dorje La sol Wa Deb So"

That's the short Supplication.
I'd recommend people get the actual Guru Sadhana only if they have the empowerment, explanation, etc.

But the supplication can be repeated by anyone...
Thanks Cone. Yes, you will need the lung, empowerment and explanation for the Milarepa Guru Yoga to do that practice but anyone can repeat the supplication.

Rinpoche's brother, Lama Yeshe, who is abbot of Samye Ling has also said that people can also do their normal practice and dedicate it to the swift return and continuing activity of Akong Rinpoche.
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KonchokZoepa wrote:but where can we get the short supplication prayers ?
Some advice from Ken Holmes Samye Ling director of studies:


"For those of you wanting to do some prayers related to Akong Rinpoche. Unlike ordinary people, he does not need our help in the bardo: he is buddha and if any help at all is needed then the Tai Situpa and the Gyalwang Karmapa will provide it, for sure.

The Tai Situpa has recommended we do the Milarepa Guru Yoga. Some of you may have had the transmission for the whole practice and can do it. Normally the Internet is not the place for meditation instruction but in this case I think it is appropriate to give the simple form:

Take Refuge & Bodhicitta first, in a way that speaks to you the most. Alternatively do the "Short Prayer to Vajradhara" (Dorje Chang Tungma).

Think that Akong Rinpoche's presence ... "feel" ... is vividly present before you in space but taking the form of the body of light of Milarepa.

Chant "Jé Mila Zhépa Dorjé la Solwandepso" from the heart as many times and as meaningfully as you can. You'll probably find the tune from a friend or on Youtube. If not, I'll upload it.

Milarepa/AR dissolves in light into you

Conclude by dedicating the merit to the good continuation of Akong Rinpoché's work, to his swift rebirth among us and to many lifetimes of meaningful connection with him."
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oh sorry conebekcham i did not realize that that sentence was actually the supplication, i had in mind that its a bit longer prayer. i thought that that was the name of the prayer. and it is but i think you know what i meant.

sorry for the misunderstanding and confusion.
If the thought of demons
Never rises in your mind,
You need not fear the demon hosts around you.
It is most important to tame your mind within....

In so far as the Ultimate, or the true nature of being is concerned,
there are neither buddhas or demons.
He who frees himself from fear and hope, evil and virtue,
will realize the insubstantial and groundless nature of confusion.
Samsara will then appear as the mahamudra itself….

-Milarepa

OMMANIPADMEHUNG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6P9tOYmdo
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No worries, mate.

I'll type it out in Tibetan font later, when I get a chance...for people who like that sort of thing! :smile:
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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I've also heard that it is traditional to do the Vajrasattva 100-syllable mantra an extra 111,111 times when a great master passes away. This is what the 3 year retreatants did when Kalu Rinpoche went into parinirvana, as told by Lama Karma Chötsö.

Perhaps if anyone is doing the Vajrasattva section of ngondro, or if he is their yidam, they could do this.
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དྲིན་ཆེན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མགར་ཆེན་ཁྲི་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཁྱེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་མཁས་གྲུབ་ཀརྨ་ཆགས་མེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ། ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོཿ
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Vajrasattva, for sure.
Also if people know the Thun Shi Lamai Naljor, that is a good practice to do when a great master of the Karma Kagyu lineage passes...
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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..and Calling the Lama From Afar, also very good to recite. In general, Guru Yoga practices are best.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Whoops, my bad on the repost :P
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