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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Foreword by Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
Foreword by Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche
Preface
Map
Introduction
Enlightened Vagabond
Beginnings
The Palge Lineage
Infant Patrul
Patrul’s Root Guru
Little Monk
Patrul Takes On a Powerful Adversary
The Palge Tulku Goes His Own Way
Patrul the Scholar
Do Khyentse Takes Patrul by Surprise
» A Piece of Advice
Patrul Tries to Offer Prostrations
Patrul’s Teacher Demonstrates Clairvoyance
Patrul Lectures Himself on His Practice
Patrul Receives a Special Transmission
The Boulder Reminder
Patrul and the Paramita of Patience
» Drive Them Off with Stones
Patrul and the Prescient Monk
Flowers Magically Appear
A Robber Sets His Sights on an Offering of Silver
Patrul on Having Things
Patrul Practices in a Charnel Ground
A Meeting of Two Minds
“You’ve Ruined It!”
Patrul’s Gift of Tea
The Haunted Fortress
Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu and the Harmful Spirit
Patrul and the Three Dargye Monks
Patrul Mentions His Past Lives
Lungtok Meets His Root Master
An Insight into Patrul’s Mind
» The Crucial Points of Practice
Patrul’s Offering to the Horseflies
Patrul Finds His Limit
Developing Empathy, Understanding Emptiness
Lungtok’s Dream
Patrul Introduces Lungtok to the Nature of Mind
Lungtok Learns Backward
Lungtok Practices in the Glacier Wilderness
The Great Master Patrul
A Monk Makes a Full Confession
Patrul Waits in Line to Receive a Blessing
Patrul Paints Some Tormas
Patrul Passes Dargye Monastery Again
Patrul and the Widow
Patrul’s Teachings Inspire All Beings
Patrul Acts as a Servant
Patrul Takes Tea with a Little Girl
Patrul and the Tossed Louse
Just Sitting on His Bed
A Tulku Has a Change of Name
Patrul Tries to Meet Shabkar
The Land of the Insect-Eaters
Patrul Meets an Exemplary Monk
Patrul’s Dedication to Practice
Patrul Pacifies a Blood Feud
Patrul Practices in the Ari Forest Wilderness
Patrul and the Venue of Vultures
Patrul Practices Tummo in a Blizzard
Lungtok’s Mother
Patrul Gives Teachings in the Forest
Far-Reaching Effects of Patrul’s Teachings
Lungtok and the Bandit Chief
Do Khyentse’s Hospitality
The Gift From Lungtok’s Mother
“That’s It!”
Adzom Drukpa’s Dilemma
Patrul Is Asked to Bestow Special Teachings
Visible Effects of Yoga
Animate and Inanimate Dances
Patrul Laughs Over an Old Man’s Corpse
Nine Brothers Delight Patrul
Patrul Reads Tertön Sogyal’s Mind
Patrul’s Miraculous Recovery
Patrul and Chokgyur Lingpa
Patrul Expresses Confidence in Chokgyur Lingpa
Patrul’s Pointing-Out Instruction for an Old Nomad
» On the Nature of Mind
An Offering of Silver
Patrul and Chokgyur Lingpa’s Yellow Parchment
Another Offering of Silver
» One Taste
Karmai Khenpo Rinchen Dargye Requests Teachings
Patrul Receives Teachings from an Old Lama
Patrul Is Taught His Own Teachings
Patrul Asks the Great Kathok Situ for a Favor
The Key to Practice
» Advice for Garwang from the Eastern Gorges of Gyalmo Rong
Patrul Receives Teachings from the Mahasiddha of Trom
Chöying Rangdröl Demonstrates Higher Perception
Gyalwa Changchup’s Prediction
Seeking an Audience with a Very Important Lama
Seeking an Audience with Another Very Important Lama
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo Countermands Patrul’s Advice
Patrul and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Patrul Is Upset and Disappears
Patrul and Lama Mipham
Patrul in Awe
Estimations and Rankings
Among You Three Great Masters
Patrul Leaves Dzogchen Monastery
» Advice to Myself
Patrul’s Pain
Patrul Teaches Khenpo Yönten Gyatso
Patrul Judges a Great Debate
Advice for Alak Do-ngak
Two of a Kind
Patrul Goes Begging for Food
Lungtok Leaves His Lama
How Patrul Taught at the Willow Hermitage
» Longing for Solitudes
Patrul Receives an Extraordinary Guest
Patrul Meets Two Murderers
Patrul Teaches the Great Perfection at Trama Lung
Food for a Day Is Plenty
Patrul Is Distraught
Patrul and the Learned Geshe
The Quick-Thinking Lama
The Lotus-Grove Play
Patrul is Tricked by a Nomad Family
Patrul is Tricked by Another Nomad Family
Patrul’s Patrician Manners
Patrul’s Rude Manners
Some Love Him, Some Fear Him
Patrul’s Respect for the Natural Course of the Elements
» Words of Warning
Patrul Gives Away a Fine Mandala
Beggars and Mani-Stone Carvers
Patrul Begs for More Beggars
Patrul Accepts What He Is Given
Patrul Practices Yoga
Patrul Travels in an Unusual Way
Patrul Receives Lo-nga Tulku
Lo-nga Tulku and Patrul’s Carpet
Meeting the 3rd Dodrupchen
Meeting with a Yogi
First Teaching of the 3rd Dodrupchen
Second Visit of the 3rd Dodrupchen
Patrul’s Encampment
Wangchok Dorje’s Renunciation
The Return of Wangchok Dorje
Khenchen Tashi Özer Tries to See Patrul
Khenpo Könchog Drönme Tries to See Patrul
Trama Tulku Receives Instructions
Patrul’s Last Great Public Ganachakra
Last Days and Hours
After Patrul’s Death
Patrul’s Unique Qualities
» Calling the Lama from Afar: A Song of Devotion and Yearning
Biographical Notes: Influential Figures, Masters, and Disciples
Adzom Drukpa
Alak Do-ngak Gyatso
Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
Chöying Rangdröl
Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje
Dola Jigme Kalzang
Gyalse Shenphen Thaye
Gyurme Pema Namgyal, 3rd Shechen Gyaltsap
Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu
Jigme Lingpa
Jigme Ngotsar Gyatso
Jigme Phuntsok Jungne, 2nd Dodrupchen
Jigme Tenpai Nyima, 3rd Dodrupchen
Jigme Trinley Özer, 1st Dodrupchen
Karmai Khenpo Rinchen Dargye
Kathok Situ (2nd), Chökyi Lodrö Orgyen Tenpa Namgyal
Khenchen Tashi Özer
Khenpo Kunzang Palden (Khenpo Kunpel)
Khenpo Pema Dorje
Khenpo Shenphen Chökyi Nangwa (Khenpo Shenga)
Khenpo Yönten Gyatso (Khenpo Yonga)
Lama Mipham Rinpoche
Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa)
Mingyur Namkhai Dorje
Minyak Kunzang Sönam
Nyoshul Lungtok Tenpai Nyima
Önpo Orgyen Tendzin Norbu (Önpo Tenga)
Pema Dechen Zangpo, 3rd Mura Tulku
Rogza Sönam Palge
Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdröl
Shechen Öntrul Gyurme Thuthop Namgyal
Notes
Glossary
Sources
About the Contributors
Sources for Stories
Sources for Biographical Notes
Written Sources
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Index
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