Illustrations

1.1 Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (artist unknown)

1.2 Khenpo Khyenrab Chökyi Öser (photographer unknown)

1.3 Footprint of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (photo by Enrico Dell’Angelo)

4.1 Khyentse Chökyi Wangchug (photographer unknown; photo belonging to Chögyal Namkhai Norbu)

5.1 Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (photographer unknown; photo belonging to Chögyal Namkhai Norbu; has the fingerprint of Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö on its back)

5.2 Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, Palpung Situ, Khenpo Zhenga, and Jamgyal Rinpoche (photo kindly provided by Tubten Nyima Rinpoche [Alak Zenkar])

6.1 Dzongsar monastery (photo kindly provided by Tubten Nyima Rinpoche [Alak Zenkar])

6.2 Chagö Tobden (photographer unknown; photo belonging to Chögyal Namkhai Norbu)

6.3 The Gagu hermitage (photo by Enrico Dell’Angelo)

7.1 Derge Gönchen: the palace of the king (photographer unknown)

7.2 The fifth Dzogchen Rinpoche, Palpung Situ, Khenchen Tampa, Samten Lodrö, Khyentse Chökyi Wangchug, and the king of Derge (photographer unknown; photo found and photographed by the translator in the kitchen of Dege Gonchen)

10.1 Galingteng (photo by Enrico Dell’Angelo)

10.2 Views of Galingteng (photo by Enrico Dell’Angelo)

10.3 Frescoes depicting protectors of the doctrine in the Mahākāla temple at Galingteng (photo by Enrico Dell’Angelo)

11.1 Statue of Vajrapāṇi, terma of Lhalung (photo by Khyentse Yeshe)

12.1 Drugpa Khenpo Ngawang Lodrö (photographer unknown)

15.1 Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (photographer unknown; photo belonging to Chögyal Namkhai Norbu)

17.1 The ruins of Lhari Phodrang (photo by Andrea Dell’Angelo)

18.1 The sixth Dzogchen Rinpoche (photographer unknown)

18.2 Shechen Rabjam (photographer unknown)

20.1 Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Khyentse Yeshe, and Yuchen Namkhai (photo by Nicoletta Liguori)