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Like his teacher, Pabongka Rinpoche, Trijang Rinpoche was an adherent of the practice of the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden and widely promoted it. He wrote Music Delighting the Ocean of Protectors, a commentary to a praise of Dorje Shugden called Infinite Aeons, written by Dagpo Kalsang Khedrup, who was the Guru of Pabongka’s Guru, Dagpo Jampel Lhundrup. Trijang Rinpoche stated, on many occasions, that Dorje Shugden is an emanation of the wisdom Buddha Manjushri. He also stated that in order for someone to become convinced that Dorje Shugden was a worldly spirit, "A mountain of absurd consequences, previously non-existent distorted ideas, would have to be accepted."
Trijang Rinpoche’s disciples consider him to be in the same mental continuum as Atisha, and the lineage holder of all the essential Gelugpa lineages of Lamrim, Lojong and Mahamudra. Trijang Rinpoche also had many other less well known disciples and was an object of pilgrimage first in Tibet and later in Dharamsala and Mundgod in India. Almost every Tibetan sought his guidance and blessings in almost all situations and activities. These included great masters, senior and junior Rinpoches, Geshes, monks, nuns, ministers, business people, men, women, old and young, poor and rich, intellectuals or practitioners. Tibetans from practically every walk of life sought his help and advice in their good and bad times. He cared for everyone equally, without discrimination, with boundless compassion and patience. Among these countless students, Trijang Rinpoche had many well-known disciples, some of whom have become especially renowned in the West, including the 14th Dalai Lama, Lama Yeshe, and Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, who continues his unmixed practice and transmission of the Ganden oral tradition.
“These two (Ling Rinpoche and Trijang Rinpoche) remained my tutors until the end of my formal education, and I continually received numerous lineages of the Tibetan Buddhist heritage from both of them. They were close friends but very different characters. Trijang Rinpoche was a tall, thin man of great grace and elegance with a rather pointed nose for a Tibetan. He was gentle and had a deep voice, which was particularly melodious when he chanted. Trijang Rinpoche was one of the greatest poets of his generation, with an eclectic command of art and literature." ~ H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama "I have received these teachings from my Spiritual Guide, Trijang Dorjechang, who was an emanation of Atisha; thus the explanations given in this book, Joyful Path of Good Fortune, actually come from him and not from myself." According to Gonsar Rinpoche, his "compassion and wisdom and the service rendered to the Dharma and sentient beings were absolutely unsurpassable." ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, in the preface of his Lamrim commentary “I received this teaching from Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche 40 years ago, somewhere across the river from Tsechor Ling valley in Lhasa. A number of people who are known in the West now were there, too: Lama Yeshe, Dagyab Rinpoche, Domo Geshe Rinpoche and also Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. We received the teachings at the same time.” ~ Gehlek Rinpoche, in his commentary to Offering to the Spiritual Guide (Lama Chopa)
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OTHER RECENT MASTERS
- H.E. DHENMA LOCHOE RINPOCHE
- THE VENERABLE GESHE NGAWANG DHARGYEY
- DOMO GESHE RINPOCHE LOSANG JIGME NGAK-GI WANGCHUK
- GADEN TRISUR LUNGRIK NAMGYAL
- LAMA MICHEL RINPOCHE
- LAMA YESHE