How Did Doegyal Gain Popularity?
How did Doegyal gain immense popularity?
Je Pabongka composed the Shugden´s life-entrustment ritual on the insistence by Shugden himself. It was for the first time in Buddhist history that the so-called Supreme deity insisted on to his main follower to compose a prayer for him. Pabongka conferred the Shugden Life-Entrustment practice for the first time in 1921. However, it was in 1935, a time lapse of 14 years, he went to met his teacher Takpo Dorjechang Pema Benza in the hope of obtaining a reliable original source of the practice. At that time, he desperately needed the recommendation of his own root lama to prove the veracity and the originality of the practice. The pro-Shugden followers say that the practice originated from the pure vision …show more content…
In this way, He broke his own solemn promise knowingly. In the mid 30s of the 20th century, some followers of Ven. Phabongkha Dechen Nyingpo Rinpoche engaged in a heated argument over the systems of philosophical tenets of the new and the ancient traditions. They destroyed images of Padmasambhava and other peaceful and wrathful deities. They openly said that it was useless to recite the mantra of Padmasambhava. Either they burnt or threw Padma Kathang (Biography of Padmasambhava) into rivers. They held Gyalpo Shugden (Dolgyal) as the supreme refuge and the embodiment of all the Three Jewels. Many monks from minor monasteries in the southern area, supposedly possessed by Shugden, ran madly in all directions destroying images, scriptures and stupas) and so …show more content…
I heard the story of the manipulation of Padma Kathang (a biography of Padmashambhava) in which Je Tsonkapa was labelled as the cause of the decline of Buddhism. In fact, I have no knowledge to say how far the story is true. Even if it were true it was nothing surprising, for sectarianism was deep rooted in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the past. Thanks to the Great 13th and the 14th Dalai Lama, there is a better understanding and harmony between the schools these
Je Pabongka composed the Shugden´s life-entrustment ritual on the insistence by Shugden himself. It was for the first time in Buddhist history that the so-called Supreme deity insisted on to his main follower to compose a prayer for him. Pabongka conferred the Shugden Life-Entrustment practice for the first time in 1921. However, it was in 1935, a time lapse of 14 years, he went to met his teacher Takpo Dorjechang Pema Benza in the hope of obtaining a reliable original source of the practice. At that time, he desperately needed the recommendation of his own root lama to prove the veracity and the originality of the practice. The pro-Shugden followers say that the practice originated from the pure vision …show more content…
In this way, He broke his own solemn promise knowingly. In the mid 30s of the 20th century, some followers of Ven. Phabongkha Dechen Nyingpo Rinpoche engaged in a heated argument over the systems of philosophical tenets of the new and the ancient traditions. They destroyed images of Padmasambhava and other peaceful and wrathful deities. They openly said that it was useless to recite the mantra of Padmasambhava. Either they burnt or threw Padma Kathang (Biography of Padmasambhava) into rivers. They held Gyalpo Shugden (Dolgyal) as the supreme refuge and the embodiment of all the Three Jewels. Many monks from minor monasteries in the southern area, supposedly possessed by Shugden, ran madly in all directions destroying images, scriptures and stupas) and so …show more content…
I heard the story of the manipulation of Padma Kathang (a biography of Padmashambhava) in which Je Tsonkapa was labelled as the cause of the decline of Buddhism. In fact, I have no knowledge to say how far the story is true. Even if it were true it was nothing surprising, for sectarianism was deep rooted in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the past. Thanks to the Great 13th and the 14th Dalai Lama, there is a better understanding and harmony between the schools these