People of Tingri, cultivate devotion as the fare you pay for the journey. If your protection is the teacher, you’ll reach wherever you aspire to go People of Tingri, carry him constantly on the crown of your head. Your never-failing source of refuge is the teacher People of Tingri, and their blessings cannot but arise. Give your very life, heart and soul to the Three Jewels , People of Tingri, is the best thing that you can do. To apply yourselves with body, speech and mind to the sacred Teachings, People of Tingri, a human life in the future will be very hard to find. If you spend the present meaninglessly and leave with empty hands, I, too, will not be here much longer soon I must move on. Now, like a small bird flying off from a treetop, We humans living on this earthĪre like streams and rivers flowing toward the ocean –Īll living beings are heading for that single destination. It’s no use seeing a doctor once you’re terminally ill Just as worn-out clothes can never again be made as new, PhotosĮxcerpts (passages 1,2,3 and 22-26) from Pha Dampa’s hundred verses of advice to the people of Dingri (Tingri) from a recent translationįortunate practitioners gathered here in Tingri, listen! Among Aziz’ original photographs are close-ups of illustrations within the text, which we make available to readers. The original manuscript is safely hidden, while many reproductions of the original photographed copy are widely distributed, translated, and made available to scholars and Buddhist students. Smith invited Aziz to prepare a short English introduction for inclusion in volume one of the five volumes in the traditional Tibetan format. Gene Smith confirmed the value of the text and worked with Aziz to have her photographic document copied, edited, then printed in Bhutan. Trusted by Trulshik Rinpoche the revered abbot, he invited her to photograph (on 35 mm film stock) the complete manuscript extending to hundreds of pages, an exercise undertaken in the monastery courtyard over the course of many weeks and under his attentive care. Anthropologist Aziz, fluent in Tibetan, had several years of association with Thupten Choeling Monastery (and nunnery) in Solu-Khumbu, Nepal. Though famed, his center was a modest retreat at Dingri Lankgor where the manuscript was housed.Īziz research into Dingri history and the story of the Langkor Nangten (relics), an orally transmitted account of PhaDampa’s history, led to a more extensive project culminating in the reproduction of this treasured text. Black Yogi, originator of Zhi-je philosophy and practice, arrived in Tibet from India. Five-volume Tibetan text, with introduction by Barbara Nimri Aziz, 1979 originally published in Bhutan.Īmong treasured documents carried form Tibet with refugees was a three volume illustrated, illuminated manuscript record of the teachings of Pha Dampa Sangyas, the 12 C.
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