Perfect practice equals perfect rebirths
His Holiness the current Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche on the left. His Holiness the current Kyabje Zong Rinpoche on the right.
His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche had lunch together in their previous lives and now in this life they meet again and have lunch together!!! Nice pictures I wanted to share. The connection is spiritually very strong and ancient between them spanning many lifetimes. They have both returned many times since the time of Lord Buddha incarnating in many forms to benefit sentient beings. Both their incarnations as high beings began from the time of Shakyamuni Buddha when both Trijang and Zong Rinpoches was Buddha’s direct disciples. Here they are again, together, friends and very close. They had a very powerful bond and close relationship throughout their previous incarnations. Very close on many levels.
In their immediate previous incarnation, Zong Rinpoche was a disciple of Trijang Rinpoche. Both from Gaden Shartse Monastery.
Both Trijang Rinpoche and Zong Rinpoche had perfect dharma practices themselves gaining supreme realizations and everything they taught was accurate, flawless and bore mystical results for so many tens of thousands of students who loyally practiced their teachings. Their knowledge of sutra and tantra was without mistake and they had taught many high lamas, teachers, geshes, yogis and masters of this and last century. Majority of masters of the Gelug tradition today in the world are their disciples directly or indirectly. They were highly sought after scholars of the highest caliber as well as hidden yogis culminating as Mahasiddhas (enlightened meditation masters). They perfectly practiced and emulated the King of Dharma and Lord of Three worlds, Je Tsongkapa. From their perfect realizations and dharma practice they can control the timing and occasion of their deaths and return perfectly in new incarnations as and when they please among many other spiritual accomplishments. Their current unmistaken incarnations recognized by H.H. the Dalai Lama and many high beings proves whatever they had practiced, taught and lived in their previous lives was without any fault or error. We can trust, rely and follow the lineage and teachings of these two great masters. The lineage, teachings and practices of their Holinesses Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Kyabje Zong Rinpoche are perfect without fault and bereft of error. We can take full refuge in these masters, their teachings and achieve high results as a result of consistently practicing what they taught. They have proven it beyond a shadow of a doubt by their perfect incarnations returning to us. If their teachings were wrong, then how can they return to us in perfect form teaching again? Illogical.
Keeping our samayas clean with each other (students of same teachers), our gurus and with all beings is very important. Having words of honor and integrity will gain great spiritual fruits which will lift us out of our personal sufferings, pains and fears. We all want and deserve happiness and here is our chance by really following our teachers.
We will reincarnate. We will take new bodies. We will die and take rebirth for sure. Where we take rebirth is up to our motivation extending into actions now. We are the authors of where we go and how we experience and react. Every action ‘big’ or small’ will culminate in results and we must be fully aware of that and live our lives and produce actions in awareness of cause and effect without miss. Don’t complain of sufferings when you are the author of them, do something about it. Practice the holy dharma now. Really practice now. Be like Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Kyabje Zong Rinpoche!
Tsem Rinpoche
His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche (left) who was the tutor of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama for over 30 years lunching with his close disciple and friend His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche (right). They often dined together as they were very close. They shared so much and visited often.
His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche’s current incarnation (left) and His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche’s current incarnation enthroned in Gaden Shartse Monastery. The sangha are offering the two great incarnate masters long life puja and requests to live long.
Without the guru you would never hear the dharma. Without the dharma there is no practice. Without practice there will be no sangha. Without practice there is no Buddhahood. Without Buddhahood there will be no more Buddhas. Therefore without the Guru there is no Buddha, Dharma and sangha. Be loyal, consistent, genuine and caring with your guru. Be honest and real always. Your guru tells you what you need to hear and not what you want to hear. What a blessing. The guru will be the one who will bestow upon you the most supreme gift of Dharma which leads to enlightenment. This is the most precious being in your life you should never abandon for no reasons. Tsem Rinpoche
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Very rare precious pictures of HH Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and HH Kyabje Zong Rinpoche had lunch together in their previous lives. Well amazingly now in this life they meet again and having lunch together. Beautiful pictures we have the fortune to see this. Looking at this pictures paints a thousand words. Both have returned many times since the time of Lord Buddha incarnating in many forms to benefit sentient beings. Having a very close relationship throughout their previous incarnations.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these rare pictures with folded hands.
Precious and rare pictures of two great incarnate masters H.H Krabje Trijang and H.H Krabje Zong Rinpoche, paints a thousand words . They have proven without doubt by their perfect incarnations returning back again and again to us. Both current unmistaken incarnations were then recognized by H.H. the Dalai Lama. It cannot be wrong. Their connection is spiritually very strong and ancient between them spanning many lifetimes.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this great teachings and precious pictures of these great masters.
This summery makes me so very happy- though the physical loss of one master is so hard to experience, but we see, that our masters never leave us completely- how patient they are with us – from generation to generation…♥️And how wonderful to experince, when these closely connected masters meet as young rimpoches each other again!!!
Wow… Precious pictures of two great incarnate masters H.H Krabje Trijang and H.H Krabje Zong Rinpoche. They are coming back and meeting each other again over and over again. This itself have proven that practicing sincerely and with consistent practice of pure dharma they will be back again . It is wonderful to see H.H Krabje Trijang and H.H Krabje Zong Rinpoche meeting again in this current life due to their samayas that so strong and firm. Looking at the three rare and precious pictures tell us a thousand words , their relationship is unbreakable.
Go all the way!!! Stop looking for the light, be the light now! ….a timely advice.
Thank you Rinpoche for giving this profound teaching and advice for us to practice Dharma sincerely, consistently and not to give up easily nor matter what we faced.
.Its great and beautiful to know the two great incarnate masters H.H Krabje Trijang and H.H Krabje Zong Rinpoche meet again over and over again in their next life.Their connection is spiritually very strong and ancient between them.They returned many times,incarnating in many forms to benefit sentient beings.Thanks Rinpoche for sharing this article… good reminder and advice for all of us.to practice sincerely the Holy Dharma for a better rebirth with a good Guru. Be loyal, consistent, genuine and caring with our Guru and never abandon for no reasons.
Thanks again with folded hands
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing this. It is really happy to see H.H Krabje Trijang and H.H Krabje Zong Rinpoche meet again in this current life, their samayas is so strong and firm. Yes without Guru there will be no Buddha, thanks all the Rinpoche for their reincarnation to teach Dharma again. I wish for my guru Tsem Rinpoche, Krabje Trijiang Rinpoche and Krabje Zong Rinpoche’s long life, hope the Dharma spreading is wider and wider through all the Rinpoche.
謝謝仁波切與我們分享這篇文章。赤江仁波切和宋仁波切都已達到無上成就的大成就者，仁波切也何尝不是。真欣喜能看到他們兩人再次相聚此俗世，繼續利益無量有情苦難衆生。這是一个件很棒的例子，使我們在修持之道更加堅定。我们今世有這樣的因果機缘遇着乘願而来的尊贵仁波切，接受其教诲是何等難得。願仁波切法業盛旺，聖寿永堅固。
Thank you Rinpoche for the sharing. I would like to practice Dharma and 50 verses of Guru Devotion well like Rinpoche, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Kyabje Zong Rinpoche so that I hope can have merit to learn Dharma from Rinpoche in this life and in future lives to love and benefit all sentient beings.
Great! Thank you! So precious!
Dear Rinpoche,
I will practice well, so that I will always be close and near to my guru in this lifetime and all future lifetimes..
what a beautiful relationship they have… in many more lifetimes to come, am sure.
It is beautiful to witness true friendship that spans beyond a lifetime between 2 special beings who have dedicated their lifetimes to benefitting others. This shows that serving others and sincere and consistent practice of pure dharma is the key to a good rebirth.
Although it is not pleasant to see the victim story we write for ourselves, it is empowering to know that we can change the story simply by changing ourselves. We do not need to wait for others to change, take action or even help us. We get to help ourselves and re-write our future through the choices we make today.
I believe strongly that Trijang Rinpoche and Zong Rinpoche will keep returning and remain close for many lifetimes to come in their commitment to benefit sentient beings.
Thanks for Rinpoche’s sharing . This is really a good teaching which we have to remind ourself. It was truth that we are the author of our current life and next life, without mind transform and we still reacted in negative actions, we still have to facing same suffering we have now, we will never go wrong by follow all spiritual teacher’s path.
In today’s degenerate time, true and pure morality, or ehtical restraint is the source of all happiness. It is said to be the main cause of higher rebirth. It is the foundation upon which all other practices are developed, and is therefore said to be the basis of all realisations and powerful attainments. Nagarjuna encourages the practice of ethics by saying “Ethics, as the earth supports the moving and unmoving, is the foundation of all good qualities, it is said”. But not knowing what is proper proper ethical conduct and what is not, creates the first door to immoral behaviour and its resultant sufferings! As said by Rinpoche, the actual practice of ehtics is, in essence, to avoid giving up “Dharma”. As to the results, it is said that although liberation arises directly from wisdom, wisdom itself depends on concentration, and concentration depends on ethics. All three training are said to be needed to attain liberation.At this point of time, like Rinpoche said, “we can quit in everything, but not Dharma, nothing will bring us truly to the suppreme Goal. We must stop looking for the light, but be the light now, and go all the way like all the Buddhas and Boddhisattvas do!!! Om mani padme hung.
谢谢仁波切的提醒与分享!我觉得我好幸运因为可以在这一世遇见仁波切您,您教导我何谓佛法, 让我在这一世可以接触到佛法。赤江仁波切和 Zong仁波切可以转世又从回到人间,这让我明白了,证明了他们的修持,观想,努力,精进和宗喀巴大师的修持,我应该每天的不间断的精进的修持!谢谢您,仁波切 !
We are so fortunate and blessed to be able to see these rare and precious photos of the two highly attained holy beings ( Shakyamuni Buddha’s direct disciples) both in their previous lives and their present incarnation having lunch together! May they will reincarnate and return life after life to liberate all sentient beings until samsara ends. Thank you Rinpoche for giving this profound teaching on the awareness of cause and effect.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful article on the law of cause and effect. Being able to practice perfectly is the cause for perfect rebirths, to be united with your guru. How wonderful. May their teachings benefit all of us for countless lifetimes.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing all theses pictures with us. We are the creator of our suffering and happiness bot to a lot us is very difficult to accept it especially when we in pain and suffering but Dharma can give us the solution with Dharma it help us to accept our suffering and resolved it with calm mind, thank you Rinpoche for continue teaching us .
With folded hands
Shelly tai
Dear Rinpoche,
It is beautiful seeing this TRUTH about incarnations, high Lamas, Mahasiddhas who comes back again and again on this earth to benefit the world, giving us more conviction in our faith, my faith in my Guru and my spiritual path that I have definitely not chosen wrong and am so fortunate to have this karmic opportunity to be close to Rinpoche. I thank Rinpoche for always caring for me like a big brother, father and most of all teacher. I will never ever abandoned Rinpoche and from the bottom of my heart never “quit” believing in Rinpoche and will do my best to keep my samaya with my Guru clean always for this and all future lives. I must have done something right in my past to have this relationship with Rinpoche and I hope to do the same for my next life. Yes Rinpoche you are right, I am most happy “working” and “serving” Rinpoche. I do not see anything else to be more important than that.
Family and friends come and go, and I have my life experiences to attest to that. Sometimes friends and family back stab, cheat and even treat you like “strangers”, use or abuse you… it happens as we hear this all the time in media. Just look a Princess Diana, the lady who had everything… I just saw a movie of her, so sad how she was so attached to having someone loved her back made her so depressed and lonely. I thought if she only had a Guru and Dharma, she would probably not be so sad and could achieve more. In the end, one of the world’s most powerful, loved lady, died in a car crash with a feeling of unloved. Poor thing! So it is a false delusion to think and focus just on the current life/family/friends/relationship/situations etc… and when we focus so much on it, we actually lose life and discover more pain and suffering, most of the time from our own ignorant attachments or permanence.
But a relationship with a Guru that can bring one to great goal of Enlightenment, so seize suffering for oneself and others… I have always wanted to seek that and when I met Rinpoche, I think I found my answer. So thank you dear Lama. I know it is something bigger and higher… it is from past, present and future… I know it does not end here, I know all the many times Rinpoche made us “CHANGE” Rinpoche’s room, re-decorating at 3am was for a GOOD reason of realisation… nothing is permanent… everything can change… and RInpoche sure knows how to make us experience this haha. I loved it, as crazy as it may sound… yes it was all worth it and I am no sucker cause I know I can be a very difficult cookie to crack but somehow with Rinpoche there resonates truth, so even the wrong is right.
So I pray I will always have this luxury of being a close disciple of Rinpoche. Thank you for finding me and bringing me home.
With a lot to learn still, gratitude, and love,
Joy
P.S. I miss Rinpoche very much and hope to see Rinpoche soon!
Dear Joy,
I am very moved by your answer and devotion to Rinpoche. I really appreciate what you have realized about your spiritual relationship with Rinpoche. The truth and care in your words really reverberates through and I am particularly inspired that you have been through so much with Rinpoche. On the other hand, I particularly agree that you are a tough cookie to crack and don’t fret… I am not any easier cookie to crack either.
We are all tough nuts due to our own egos and warped sense of priorities and attachments. It ain’t easy for Rinpoche and I always think this is because of Rinpoche’s particularly powerful prayer for the most difficult and problem-filled students to come to him. I believe such prayers have brought us, the most difficult of spiritual-seekers to Rinpoche.
On the subject of quitting, I have thought about it countless times just like a flighty bird. But I just couldn’t do it because of the thought of how it would affect others would come to mind and stop me. It is odd but I do care and its sometimes contradictory to what brought me to the dilemma in the first place. Intellectually, I know that there is a future life (and previous lives) but my conviction does not lie in that fact. My conviction in doing Dharma lies in people I care and cherish. This may not work for some people but it has certainly worked for me and it has kept me on track.
In fact, what Rinpoche shared here is very much part of the Lamrim teachings. It is a proof of future lives and to develop conviction on it based on the results of these great lamas. Coincidentally, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche is the one who wrote the Namdrol Lamrim (Liberation in the Palm of One’s hand) based on Kyabje Pabongka’s teachings. And Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, a great scholar and peerless debater and logician. These are masters who had made the lamrim a feature of their existence and not just a verbal teaching. Incredible.
David, You are indeed a great writer. You are also someone who also has gratitude and cherish those that have loved and cared for you. You look like someone who does not forget about kindness shown to you. That is precious. That is great! Keep that quality because it make you human and real.
Leaving dharma is leaving all causes of happiness for oneself and others. Imagine every single monk leaving Gaden, Sera and Drepung because of difficulties financially, or scolding from teacher or being assigned difficult jobs? Tibetan Buddhism would collapse. Many monks get huge and difficult assignments from their teachers that go on for years such as building a new prayer hall. Or being in charge of the kitchen and cooking for 1,500 monks daily or working in the field for two years, etc.
There were monks who quit and when I talked to them later, they deepy regretted and are ‘stuck’ with their decisions. I have witnessed monks who did not quit and they become the great elite Geshes, teachers, scholars, masters, tutors and siddhas. They are the Lati Rinpoches, Kensur Jampa Yeshes, Gen Nyimas, Gen Jamyangs, Kensur Konchok Tserings, Trijang Rinpoches, Pabongka Rinpoches, Geshe Rabtens, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyes, Geshe Tsultrim Gyeltsens, Domo Geshe Rinpoches, Zong Rinpoches, Gen Gelongs, and hundreds more too numerous to name. They are the backbones, the flesh and meat of Tibetan Buddhism that has spread into the world. They are the people who we look to with tears in our eyes of inspiration and prod us onto enlightenment. We read their writings, study under their feet and pray to them for inspiration and blessings. We enshrine them in thangkas and statues we enjoy collecting for our altars. The funny thing is they were just like you and me in the beginning. They never gave up.
Imagine if Buddha Shakyamuni gave up because his parents/wife protested and he stayed back in the palace and continued to indulge the senses?
Imagine if Buddha gave into Mara at the last moment of his enlightenment. How about all the difficulties Milarepa endured with his very wrathful teacher Marpa? How about Naropa’s trials and tribulations? Compared to them we are just mama’s boys if we quit because we endured very little although we make it big in our spoiled ego centric minds. LOL. How about the great King himself, Lord Tsongkapa and how much he endured to learn and practice and retreat. We should think of them. We should be committed to the path since we came this far ad we should have great guru devotion. Daily we must visualize our guru as Tsongkapa without fail for a few moments clearly, recite Migtseyma and request him for blessings during the visualization. This would be powerful. Go all the way!!! Stop looking for the light, be the light now!
Thank you for your thoughts David and Joy. I was happy to read them.
You can quit everything but not dharma because nothing will bring you truly to a supreme goal. Tell all the Maras in your mind internally and externally to please take a long vacation and don’t come back!!
Tsem Rinpoche
谢谢仁波切对我们的关爱和费心，一而再的叮嚀我们宗喀巴的傳承不需要任何疑问，只要我们跟随着上師努力修持，一定会有成绩。赤江仁波切和宋仁波切就是最好的証明。所以無論怎么样的困扰都不轻言放弃。
Thank you so much for sharing these pictures with us, Rinpoche. For the past weeks I have been sickly but when I saw this article in my Facebook, I have realised that ordinary beings like me always worry and put so much concern for our body. In contrast, highly beings like both of the Rinpoches only concerned where to take rebirths, their missions and on how to benefit beings! Although they are highly attained and yet they have to take on the path again and again just to benefit us. Besides, it is not easy especially in controlling death and rebirth. When thinking about this, indirectly it shows the kindness of Rinpoche as well, having taken a rebirth but in a rather difficult journey of life. However, without this extraordinary journey, layman like us will never benefit from Buddha’s teaching at all! What’s more when a Rinpoche that can speak in our language.
Thank you for sharing this with us Rinpoche. This is incredibly mind-bending, a relationship that spanned lifetimes since the time of the Lord Buddha.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this article with us. Trijiang Rinpoche and Zong Rinpoche are high attained lamas. Many great masters had became their students in the past. It is rejoice to see both of them are here again to continue turn the wheel of dharma. May their teaching can benefit many people again in the world.
Thank you Rinpoche for a teaching on the perfect examples of how one should practice perfectly the awareness of realizing and living by cause and effect.
Both Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Kyabje Zong Rinpoche lived many lifetimes of faultless practice and teaching of the Dharma.
With that they have been able to control their rebirths into lives lived in service to the Dharma and to benefit others.
Just as in previous lives, they lived and worked closely together to teach others and to serve and benefit them, so too did they spend the early years of this lifetime together, being recognized and enthroned by HH Dalai Lama and placed in Gaden Monastery.