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Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo
Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo (Tibetan: ཕ་བོང་ཁ་པ་བདེ་ཆེན་སྙིང་པོ, Wylie: pha bong kha pa bde chen snying po; 1878–1941) was a Gelug lama in the modern era of Tibetan Buddhism. He obtained his Geshe degree at Sera Mey Monastic University in Lhasa and later became a teacher in Tibet, providing his services to laypeople and clergy alike. Pabongkha was offered the regency of the present Dalai Lama but declined the request, reportedly because "he strongly disliked political affairs."
Ribur Rinpoche described how Phabongkhapa met his root Guru:
His root guru was Dagpo Lama Rinpoche Jampel Lhuendrub Gyatso, from Lhoka. He was definitely a bodhisattva, and Pabongkha Rinpoche was his foremost disciple. He lived in a cave in Pasang, and his main practice was bodhichitta; his main deity was Avalokiteshvara and he would recite 50,000 manis [the mantra, Om mani padme hum] every night. When Kyabje Pabongkha first met Dagpo Rinpoche at a tsog offering ceremony in Lhasa, he cried out of reverence from beginning to end.
According to Ribur Rinpoche:
Dagpo Lama Rinpoche would teach him a Lamrim topic and then Pabongkha Rinpoche would go away and meditate on it. Later, he would return to explain what he’d understood: if he had gained some realization, Dagpo Lama Rinpoche would teach him some more, and Pabongkha Rinpoche would go back and meditate on that. It went on like this for ten years.
Pabongkha Rinpoche was a renunciate. His attendant once demolished the small old building inhabited by Pabongkha Rinpoche while he was away on a long tour, and constructed in its place a large ornate residence trying to rival the private quarters of the Dalai Lama. When Pabongkha Rinpoche returned, he said, “I am only a minor hermit Lama, and you should not have built something like this for me. I am not famous, and the essence of what I teach is the renunciation of worldly life. Therefore, I am embarrassed by rooms like these.”
According to Rilbur Rinpoche, any of Phabongkhapa's anger "had been completely pacified by his bodhichitta."
He would ask everyone in a line how they were and tap them on the head. Sometimes, he dispensed medicine.
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Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo
Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo (Tibetan: ཕ་བོང་ཁ་པ་བདེ་ཆེན་སྙིང་པོ, Wylie: pha bong kha pa bde chen snying po; 1878–1941) was a Gelug lama in the modern era of Tibetan Buddhism. He obtained his Geshe degree at Sera Mey Monastic University in Lhasa and later became a teacher in Tibet, providing his services to laypeople and clergy alike. Pabongkha was offered the regency of the present Dalai Lama but declined the request, reportedly because "he strongly disliked political affairs."
Ribur Rinpoche described how Phabongkhapa met his root Guru:
His root guru was Dagpo Lama Rinpoche Jampel Lhuendrub Gyatso, from Lhoka. He was definitely a bodhisattva, and Pabongkha Rinpoche was his foremost disciple. He lived in a cave in Pasang, and his main practice was bodhichitta; his main deity was Avalokiteshvara and he would recite 50,000 manis [the mantra, Om mani padme hum] every night. When Kyabje Pabongkha first met Dagpo Rinpoche at a tsog offering ceremony in Lhasa, he cried out of reverence from beginning to end.
According to Ribur Rinpoche:
Dagpo Lama Rinpoche would teach him a Lamrim topic and then Pabongkha Rinpoche would go away and meditate on it. Later, he would return to explain what he’d understood: if he had gained some realization, Dagpo Lama Rinpoche would teach him some more, and Pabongkha Rinpoche would go back and meditate on that. It went on like this for ten years.
Pabongkha Rinpoche was a renunciate. His attendant once demolished the small old building inhabited by Pabongkha Rinpoche while he was away on a long tour, and constructed in its place a large ornate residence trying to rival the private quarters of the Dalai Lama. When Pabongkha Rinpoche returned, he said, “I am only a minor hermit Lama, and you should not have built something like this for me. I am not famous, and the essence of what I teach is the renunciation of worldly life. Therefore, I am embarrassed by rooms like these.”
According to Rilbur Rinpoche, any of Phabongkhapa's anger "had been completely pacified by his bodhichitta."
He would ask everyone in a line how they were and tap them on the head. Sometimes, he dispensed medicine.