As an auspicious conclusion, I include the colophon to Jokyab Rinpoche’s (Khenpo Pema Trinley Nyingpo) Entering the Path of Wisdom:
By the power of dedicating all virtuous actions to the great enlightenment,
As exemplified by this effort and by the good deed of confessing my faults,
May the light of the profound and secret tradition spread everywhere,
And may the lotus flowers of auspicious goodness bloom.
The glorious Jamyang Drakpa was a sovereign of knowledge, compassion, and capability and a great guide of all beings. He had perfected an ocean of the virtues of learning, reflection, and meditation by gathering within the glorious knot of his heart all the streams issuing forth from the nectar of the speech and the extracts of the realization of the three great tertöns and vidyadharas. He was also chief among the direct disciples of the sun and moon pair of Jamgöns who, in accordance with the vajra prophecy, accepted the oath of carrying out the activity of linking one million eight hundred thousand [beings to this teaching].336
While being nurtured by his great kindness of being accepted with the nectar of his profound and vast speech, and having received the dust of his feet at the crown of my head, I was afraid to forget all the clarifications through the guru’s oral tradition of what was taught in the authoritative commentary and, wanting to help people of inferior intellectual capacity like myself, I had taken down some notes. Later I was told to write them down in an assembled form by Samten Gyatso and his brother and was encouraged to do so with a present of writing paper. In response thereto, this ignorant Buddhist monk, Pema Trinley Nyingpo, who practices the essential yoga of the supreme vehicle as nothing but a mere wish, wrote this down at Mindröl Norbu Ling, the Mind Seat of Chokgyur Lingpa. May the virtue of this be a cause for the tradition of the Vajra Essence to spread throughout all times and directions, SARVADA KALYANAM BHAVANTU.337