H.H. Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal’s 90th Birthday Celebration
May 22, 2016 marked the 90th birthday celebration of the 101st Gaden Tripa, H.H. Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Lungrik Namgyal. This celebration was organized by the people from Dhapa, Nepal and the members of Thar Deu Ling Buddhist Centre, Paris. Many people flew in from all around the world to attend this special event, including great masters like the first abbot of Shar Gaden Monastery H.E. Kensur Rinpoche Lobsang Phende, H.E. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, Ven. Rabten Tulku Rinpoche and so forth.
The 101st Gaden Tripa, H.H. Lungrik Namgyal Rinpoche
H.E. Kensur Rinpoche Lobsang Phende making body, speech and mind offerings to H.H. Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal Rinpoche
Making body, speech and mind offerings to H.H. Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal Rinpoche
From left to right: H.E. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, H.E. Kensur Rinpoche Lobsang Phende Rinpoche and H.E. Rabten Tulku Rinpoche
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The Gaden Tripa
The Gaden Tripa is the Holder of the Gaden Throne. The occupant of this position is considered to be the representative of Lama Tsongkhapa on Earth. This is a title that is given to the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the school that is the dominant tradition in Central Tibet since the mid-17th century.
The Gaden Tripa is appointed on the basis of a hierarchical progression that is based on the merit of a monk’s learning, practice and adherence to the monastic vows and commitments. The Gaden Tripa or Throne Holder of Gaden is a post that is obtained by merit and not by recognition as a reincarnation. Therefore, an ordinary monk with no status or rank can ascend the ranks within the monastery to this highest position.
The Gaden Tripa is by appointment once every seven years between Jangtse Choje and Sharpa Choje on an alternating basis. The appointment is automatic but it is confirmed by the Dalai Lama who will publicly announce the appointment at the time of changeover.
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Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal
The 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche, Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal was born in 1927 in Kham (eastern Tibet). He was ordained in 1935 at the tender age of eight where he joined the local monastery in Yangding. He later entered Gaden Shartse Norling College as a student and studied Pramanavarttika (Logic), Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) and Madhyamika (Middle Way Philosophy) under the guidance of various highly attained masters. He had also received many precious teachings and empowerments from the pure Gaden lineage.
In 1959, Trisur Rinpoche escaped from Tibet to travel to India, arriving at the India-Bhutan border town of Buxa to continue his studies and meditation retreats. It was there where Trisur Rinpoche completed his education in the Madhyamika, Abhidharma (Treasury of Knowledge), and Vinaya (the study of monastic discipline).
In 1969, Trisur Rinpoche accomplished the study of the Five Major Treatises of Buddhist Philosophy and participated in the final exam at a renowned local Tibetan monastic university, graduating in the 1st position with the highest honour. Consequently, he joined the Gyuto Tantric University and focused intensively on the study of Tantra.
In 1970, he was officially conferred the title of Geshe Lharampa (equivalent to a Ph.D. of Buddhist studies) where he emerged at the top of a major debate held for 20 days. This debate had over 30 candidates from the three great monasteries of Gaden, Sera and Drepung along with other universities.
In 1973, he was conferred the title of Geshe Ngarampa (Specialist in Tantra) after 40 years of intensive practice and studies in all fields of Buddhist Sutra and Tantra. This included the Five Major Treatises of Buddhist Philosophy as well as an extraordinary monastic education, which included numerous sacred rituals.
In 1983, after 50 years of meditative practices and studies, he was elevated to the post of Abbot of the Tantric University of Gyuto by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
On October 27, 1986, Trisur Rinpoche was part of the special envoy of the Dalai Lama to the Ecumenical Encounters of Assisi in Italy convened by Pope John Paul II with 32 Christian religious organizations and 11 other non-Christian world religions, including representatives from Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Shintoism, Baha’i, Zoroastrianism and African and North American animism. In all, there were 160 religious leaders spending the day together, fasting and praying. This is known as the World Day of Prayer for Peace.
In 1992, he was elevated to the post of the Abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastic University. During the years of Trisur Rinpoche’s abbotship, apart from supervising the administration and discipline of the ordained monks, he also conducted various pujas and teachings personally. His contribution towards the monastery is widely recognised and deeply respected by all.
In 1995, he was bestowed the honorary rank of Sharpa Choje, thus making him the second highest dignitary in the ranks of the Gelug school. This stemmed from the fact he was an abbot emeritus of Gyuto Tantric College.
On January 20, 2003, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama announced the appointment of Kensur Lungrik Namgyal Rinpoche as the 101st Gaden Tripa in Bodhgaya at the conclusion of the Kalachakra empowerment. He held the post for the customary seven-year period. According to custom, he became known as Trisur Rinpoche upon his completion of his term of office.
After his retirement, Trisur Rinpoche has been living in Paris, France as a French national. He transmits the Buddhist teachings of his lineage at his Dharma center, Thar Deu Ling which he founded in 1980. Furthermore, he has been travelling the world propagating the Buddhadharma in many countries including France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, America, China, and Singapore.
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Thar Deu Ling Dharma center
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Meeting Gaden Trisur Rinpoche
In October 2006, a group of Kecharians had the good fortune to have an audience with Gaden Trisur Rinpoche, when Trisur Rinpoche was serving as the Gaden Tripa. Here is a short video of the audience which we would like to share with you.
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We wish Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Lungrik Namgyal long life, good health, and success in all his activities.
Addendum
H.H. Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal Rinpoche giving blessings
The picture below was taken in Gaden Shartse Monastery’s main prayer hall during Lama Chopa puja. In the front row is His Holiness Gaden Trisur Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal when he was the abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastery. Next to him is His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche and His Eminence the young Tsem Rinpoche. Sitting behind wearing the hat is Venerable Geshe Lobsang Phende as head chant master.
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In Tibet, a boy from the faraway provinces would normally enter into one of the hundreds of wayside monasteries in order to receive their novice ordination vows. In these smaller provincial monasteries, the young monks received their initial education on reading the Tibetan script, memorisation of the scriptures and so forth. Once these young monks came of age and received their full ordination vows, they would travel great distances to the larger monastic universities such as Gaden (3,300 monks), Sera (6,000 monks), Drepung (10,000 monks), Tashi Lhunpo (4,000 monks) and Amdo Tashikyil (4,000 monks)in order to further their monastic education on the great treatises and so on. Some of these boys from humble beginnings in the provinces would end up becoming great scholars and masters.
བོད་ནང་། ཡུལ་ཐག་རིང་པོའི་ཕྲུག་གུ་གྲྭ་པ་བྱེད་སྐབས་དགེ་ཚུལ་གྱི་སྡོམ་པ་ཞུས་ཆེད་དུ་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཆུང་ཆུང་ནང་ཞུགས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་རེད། མངའ་རིས་ཡུལ་གྱི་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཁག་ནང་། གྲྭ་པ་གཞོན་པ་དེ་དག་གིས་ཐོག་མར་བོད་ཡིག་སྦྱང་གི་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ཞལ་འདོན་སོགས་བློ་ལ་ངེས་པ་བཅས་གནང་གི་ཡོད་པ་རེད། གྲྭ་པ་དེ་རྣམས་ལོ་རྒན་ཚད་ལོངས་རྗེས་དགེ་སློང་གི་སྡོམ་པ་ཞུས་ཚར་ནས། གཞུང་ཆེན་པོའི་ཐོས་བསམ་སློབ་གཉེར་གནང་པའི་ཆེད་དུ་གདན་ས་ཆེན་པོ་ཐོས་བསམ་ནོར་གླིང་གྲྭ་ཚང་དགའ་ལྡན་དང་། (གྲྭ་པ་ ༣,༣༠༠) སེར་རྭ། (གྲྭ་པ་ ༦,༠༠༠) འབྲུས་སྤུངས། (གྲྭ་པ་ ༡༠,༠༠༠) བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ། (གྲྭ་པ་ ༤,༠༠༠) ཨ་མདོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་ (གྲྭ་པ་ ༤,༠༠༠) སོོགས་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཆེན་པོ་ནང་ཕེབས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་རེད། མངའ་རིས་ཆུང་ཆུང་ནས་ཕེབས་པའི་གྲྭ་གཞོན་དེ་དག་ནང་ནས་འགའ་ཤས་མཁས་པ་དང་སློབ་དཔོན་ཕུལ་དུ་བྱུང་བ་ཐོན།
在西藏，来自偏远地区的男孩一般会分别加入许许多多的小寺院接受沙弥戒。这些分布在不同地区的小寺院会为小沙弥提供初级教育，比如藏文阅读、经典背诵等教育。一旦小沙弥成年且到了接受比丘戒之时，他们将远行万里，到更大规模的寺院，比如甘丹寺（3300僧众）、色拉寺（6000僧众）、哲蚌寺（10000僧众）、扎什伦布寺（4000僧众），以及拉卜楞寺（4000僧众）升学，研习各种佛教大论。有的男孩虽然来自偏远地区、出身低微，但最终也是大有作为，成为伟大的学者和大师。
This was what happened to Kensur Jampa Yeshe Rinpoche and the 103rd Gaden Tripa Lobsang Tenzin. Both of these lamas were originally from Tsem Monastery in the Yara valley of Kham, Tibet. When Kensur Rinpoche was just a young monk entering into Gaden Monastery, Tsem Rinpoche’s previous life was the abbot at that time. On the other hand, the Gaden Tripa was the nephew of Rinpoche’s previous life, Kentrul Thubten Lamsang. Such was the close connection that Tsem Rinpoche had with these two lamas, going back into previous lives. In this life in fact, Tsem Rinpoche offered his own ladrang in Gaden Shartse Monastery to Kensur Jampa Yeshe Rinpoche. Furthermore, the Gaden Tripa Lobsang Tenzin’s ladrang (house) in Drepung Loseling Monastery was fully sponsored by Tsem Rinpoche and his students, and Tsem Rinpoche also fully sponsored on a monthly basis some of the students in the Gaden Tripa’s house. Tsem Rinpoche also found personal sponsorship for the Gaden Tripa himself.
མཁན་ཟུར་བྱམས་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་པ་བརྒྱ་དང་གསུམ་པ་བློ་བཟང་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་གཉིས་ལ་ཡང་དེ་འདྲ་བྱུང་། བླ་མ་ཁོང་རྣམ་ཉིད་ནི་སྤྱིར་བོད་ཁམས་ཡ་ར་ལུང་པའི་ཚེམས་གྲྭ་ཚང་ནས་ཡིན་པ་དང་། མཁན་ཟུར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དགུང་ལོ་གཞོན་ནུ་ཡིན་པའི་སྐབས་གདན་ས་དགའ་ལྡན་དུ་བཞུགས་དུས་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུ་གོང་མ་དེ་ཉིད་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་མཁན་པོ་ཡིན་པ་རེད། ཕྱོགས་གཞན་དུ། དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་པ་འདི་ཉིད་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུ་གོང་མ་མཁན་སྤྲུལ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ལམ་བཟང་གི་ཚ་བོ་དེ་ཡིན་པ་རེད། དེར་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་བླ་མ་དེ་ཉིད་བར་སྐྱེ་བ་སྔོན་མ་ནས་འབྲེལ་བ་ཟབ་པོ་ཡོད་པ་རེད། དྲང་པོ་ཞུས་ན། ཚེ་འདིར་ཡང་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་དགའ་ལྡན་ཤར་རྩེ་གྲྭ་ཚང་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་སོ་སོའི་བླ་བྲང་དེ་ཡང་མཁན་ཟུར་བྱམས་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལ་ཕུལ་བ་དང་། གཞན་ཡང་འབྲས་སྤུངས་བློ་གསལ་གླིང་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་པ་བློ་བཟང་བསྟན་འཛིན་མཆོག་གི་བླ་བྲང་གི་སྦྱིན་བདག་ཆ་ཚང་ཡང་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སློབ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གནང་པ་དང་། ཁོང་གི་བླ་བྲང་དགེ་ཕྲུག་འགའ་ཤས་རྣམས་ལ་ཟླ་རེར་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་རོགས་རམ་ཡང་གནང་གི་ཡོད་པ་རེད། དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་པ་ཁོ་རང་གི་ཆེད་དུ་ཡང་ཚེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་སྦྱིན་བདག་འཚོལ་ནས་སྤྲོད་པ་རེད།
堪殊强巴耶喜仁波切及第103任甘丹赤巴洛桑丹津皆有如此的出身。这两位上师都来自云南省迪庆藏族自治州德钦县羊拉的则木寺。堪殊仁波切在他年纪尚轻的时候加入甘丹寺，时任住持便是詹杜固仁波切的其中一个前世。另外，第103任甘丹赤巴洛桑丹津也是詹杜固仁波切的前世——堪珠图登兰桑的侄子。可见，詹杜固仁波切与这两位上师的关系是如此亲近，他们的缘分自前世便已结下。这一世，詹杜固仁波切将自己位于甘丹萨济寺的拉章供养堪殊强巴耶喜仁波切。不仅如此，詹杜固仁波切及其弟子还全额资助第103任甘丹赤巴洛桑丹津在哲蚌洛色林寺的拉章的筹建工程。甘丹赤巴拉章中的好几位弟子每月也获得詹杜固仁波切的资助。另外，甘丹赤巴的功德主，也由詹杜固仁波切找来。
The 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche, Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal is a master of all masters. Highly respected by many people all over the world as one a Grand master who has spent all his life to Buddhadharma and working tirelessly on spreading the Dharma for the benefit of all sentient beings. His 90th birthday celebrations was organised by the people of Dhapa, Nepal and members of a Buddhist Centre, in Paris. Many guests, high ranking lamas ,masters from came from corners of the world to attend this special event which was marked with prayers, Tibetan dance and other traditional celebrations. To those attending and witnessed this celebration were so fortunate and blessed. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post and all the beautiful photos of the birthday celebration of a Great master.
Recently Beng Kooi and Martin on behalf of myself and Kechara was lucky to have audience with His Holiness Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal of Gaden Shartse Monastery. He lives in around Paris, France. His Holiness is 91 years old and very healthy and alert. He was the 101st throne holder for Tsongkapa and was the head of the Gelugpa school of Buddhism and was very successful during his tenure. He is a strong practitioner of both Sutra and Tantra of Je Tsongkapa’s tradition and a master of all Buddhist knowledge. He holds steadfast to his protector Dorje Shugden very strongly. So we can see even the highest throneholders who are masters of Sutra and Tantra also practices Dorje Shugden knowing the benefits.
Beng Kooi and Martin brought photo albums of Kechara Forest Retreat/Kechara and updates on Kechara and our works. His Holiness was very pleased to listen and offered some gifts back.
This is a beautiful picture and the great blessings bestowed on us from His Holiness Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal.
Humbly,
Tsem Rinpoche
October 18, 2017
Happy to see the Gaden Trisur still presiding over the celebration of his birthyda. May he stay on long to turn the wheel of dharma.
May The 101st Gaden Tripa, H.H. Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal be blessed with long and healthy life. May he continue to turn the wheel of dharma to benefit many people around the world.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing such a nice pictorial album of the birthday celebration with the many eminent Masters paying tribute and share the festivities of the event. The grand celebration is definitely befitting such an attained Master who gave his life to the dharma and to bring the dharma to the people. May his activities continue to benefit the people.
感谢上师尊贵的詹杜固仁波切在此分享有关至尊第101任甘丹赤苏仁波切杰尊龙日南杰
九十岁的寿日。随喜祝贺赤苏仁波切法体安康与长寿，常转法轮，利益更多众生。
除此以外，此博文里的短片分享让我们清楚了解，现任的甘丹赤巴法王地位崇高彷如在世的宗喀巴大师一样（以现世的情况，法王的地位次于至尊第14世嘉瓦仁波切）。法王非常赞叹上师尊贵的詹杜固仁波切所做的一切贡献与功劳。这些年来，法王听闻有关詹杜固仁波切为甘丹寺所作出的贡献感到十分开心。法王认可詹杜固仁波切在马来西亚所做的一切，并且撰写序文和给予加持祈求仁波切在马来西亚的法务成功。因为，法王相信詹杜固仁波切会把法法脉延传下去。
May the 101st Gaden Tripa, H.H. Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Lungrik Namgyal lives long and healthy to continue turning the wheel of Dharma. It is very heartwarming to read that the accomplished Gaden Tripa worked his way up on the basis of a hierarchical progression based on the merit of a monk’s learning, practice and adherence to the monastic vows and commitments. It is an inspiration to ordinary people like to us to study hard and hold our vows well.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post with all the charming photos of the birthday celebration.
Humbly, bowing down,
Stella Cheang
The reason why we are still able to learn Buddhism after 2500 years of Buddha’s lifetime, is because of the Sangha members. If not because of them, Buddha’s teaching would have lost years ago.
The sangha members gave up the worldly “enjoyments”, and they study the Dharma text, and engage in intense practice, just to preserve Buddha’s teaching and spread Dharma to everyone. We owe these to all the sangha members.
I wish H.H. Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal long and healthy life and may all of us benefit from such pure and high monk.
Agree with your sentiments that ordained Sangha plays a significant role in the preservation and spread of the pure Dharma. In fact, it has been said that Dharma practice is less intimidating due to facilitation from the Sangha. Just like the nurses in a hospital, the Sangha serves as a support system to help with the practitioner’s study and practise of the teachings of the Buddha. It has also been said that when the ordained Sangha uphold their practices and lineages, they themselves hold the power to assist in the removal of the sufferings of beings.
The 101st Gaden Tripa, H.H. Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Lungrik Namgyal clearly has devoted his whole life to the Dharma and to date still tirelessly work on spreading the Dharma for the benefit of all sentient beings. His work is truly inspirational. May His Holiness live long and continue to turn the wheel of Dharma.
Thank you Rinpoche for the sharing
I have learnt from the article as below:
The Gaden Tripa is the Holder of the Gaden Throne. The occupant of this position is considered to be the representative of Lama Tsongkhapa on Earth. This is a title that is given to the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism,
The Gaden Tripa is appointed on the basis of a hierarchical progression that is based on the merit of a monk’s learning, practice and adherence to the monastic vows and commitments. The Gaden Tripa or Throne Holder of Gaden is a post that is obtained by merit and not by recognition as a reincarnation. The Gaden Tripa is by appointment once every seven years
His Holiness Trisur Rinpoche is one of the most qualified Buddhist teachers alive today – being highly trained in both fields of Sutra and Tantra. His Holiness Trisur Rinpoche has dedicated his whole lifetime to the propagation of the Buddhadharma, and has been tirelessly visiting many parts of the world to spread the Teachings. Countries which His Holiness Trisur Rinpoche has visited include – France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, America, China, Taiwan and Singapore.
In recent years, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama instituted a ban against the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden, but Gaden Trisur Rinpoche chose to continue with this practice, which he has been committed to his whole life. He has since left his monastery, Gaden Shartse, to join Shar Gaden Monastery which strongly maintains their worship of Dorje Shugden.
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May 22nd marked the 90th birthday celebration of the 101st Ganden Tripa
H.H. Ganden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal.
The Ganden Tripa is the holder of Ganden Throne. The occupants of this position is consider to be representatives of Lama Tsongkhapa on earth. This title is given to the spiritual teacher of Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the school that is the dominant tradition in central Tibet since the mid 17th century. The Ganden Tripa or Throne holder of Ganden is a post obtained by merit, practice and adherence to the monastic vow and commitment not by recognition as a reincarnation. Therefore an ordinary monk with no status or rank can ascend the rank within the monastery to the highest position. The Ganden Tripa is by appointment once every 7 years between Jangsey Choje and Sharpa Choje on an alternating basis. The appointment is automatic but is confirm by Dalai Lama who would announce publicly the appointment at the time of changeover.
The 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche, Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal was born in 1927 in Kham ( Eastern Tibet ). He was ordained in 1935 at the tender age of eight where he joined the local monastery in Yangding. He received many teachings and empowerment from the pure Ganden lineage
In 1983, after 50 years of meditative and studies , he was elevated to the post of Abbot of the Tantric University of Gyuto by his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
In 1992 , he was elevated the post of Abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastic University. On Jan 2003 , the 14th Dalai Lama announced the appointment of Kensur Lungrik Namgyal Rinpoche as 101st Gaden Tripa in Bodhgaya at the conclusion of Kalachakra empowerment. He held the post for customary 7 years period. According to custom, he became known as Trisur Rinpoche upon his completion of his term of office.
After his retirement , Tisur Rinpoche has been living in Paris , France as a French national. He transmit the Buddhist teachings of his lineage at his Dharma centre, Thar Deu Ling which was founded in 1980.
In October 2006 , a group of Kecharians had a good fortune to have an audience with Gaden Trisur Rinpoche, when Trisur Rinpoche was serving as a Gaden Tripa. A short video of the audience to share.
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/GadenTripaThinksOfTsemTulkuRinpoche.mp4.
We wish Gaden Trisur Rinpoche Lungrik Namgyal long life, good health and success in all his activities
Thank you for sharing the pictures of the birthday celebrations of H.H. Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal. He has devoted his whole life to the Dharma. I find his life and work greatly inspirational. May His Holiness live long and continue to turn the wheel of Dharma.
May H.H Gaden Trisur Lungrik Namgyal have great health and live long to continue to turn the wheel of Dharma to benefit many sentient beings !!
It looked like a very heartwarming celebration of a special being who has spent all his life since a child, to learn the Dharma, to achieve the highest level of Dharma learning; who observed all his monastic vows to perfection and earned him the highest honor and accolade to be appointed the 101st Gaden Tripa!! What’s even more heartwarming was to see all the other highly attained Lamas coming together to celebrate.I especially noticed the High Lamas H.E. Kensur Lobsang Phende Rinpoche, H.E. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, Ven. Rabten Tulku Rinpoche – all are Dorje Shugden practitioners who never gave up their practice despite all the difficulties they had to face from the ban!
It is interesting to note that the post of the Ganden Tripa, the spiritual head of the Gelugs, is appointed by merits and not because he is a tulku. To me this a a kind of equanimity, a level playing field as the Westerners will call it.
Another thing that I found interesting is that “great masters like the first abbot of Shar Gaden Monastery H.E. Kensur Lobsang Phende Rinpoche, H.E. Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, Ven. Rabten Tulku Rinpoche and so forth.” This is the recognition and respect from one great master to another regardless. When can there be peace and the lifting of the ban for all attained masters to mingle and be as a whole sangha without the divide?