Boundless Compassion
Homage to the Master! This morning Yongdzin Rinpoche received his copies of The Four Samayas of Dzogchen and Thirteen Points of Tantra and Tsewang Mönlam thanks to Largen Lama who brought them from France.
Here Rinpoche is holding the book open at the page with his own photo, taken by Dmitry back in 1996 at Triten Norbutse.
As it says in the Tsewang Mönlam:
and:
*Boundless compassion which is like the sky ‒ Tib. rgya che ba nam mkha’ lta bu’i thugs rje / རྒྱ་ཆེ་བ་ནམ་མཁའ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ།; All-illuminating compassion which is like the sun ‒ Tib. kun gsal ba nyi ma lta bu’i thugs rje / ཀུན་གསལ་བ་ཉི་མ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ།; Inexhaustible compassion which is like the earth ‒ Tib. zad pa med pa sa gzhi lta bu’i thugs rje / ཟད་པ་མེད་པ་ས་གཞི་ལྟ་བུའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ།; Unceasing compassion which is like a great river ‒ Tib. rgyun chad med pa chu bo lta bu’i thugs rje / རྒྱུན་ཆད་མེད་པ་ཆུ་བོ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ།.
From: Ziwu Rigpa Rangshar, Tr. Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, Trncr. & Ed. C. Ermakova & D. Ermakov. The Precious Mala: A Collection of Aspirational Prayers from Tsewang Rigdzin །ཚེ་དབང་སྨོན་ལམ་དོན་འདུས་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས།, Tibetan-English Edition (FPYB: UK, 2020), pp. 9&15.
May the lotus feet of the Master remain firm upon the Earth!
Carol and Dmitry