______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________     His Holiness the 100th Ganden Trisur Supreme Head Emeritus of the Gelugpa Tradition ( June, 2008; Drepung Loseling, India )   "The best way to practise Dharma is to avoid bad actions and to cultivate good actions. Continue to do as much Dharma practice as you can."    _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________   Dearest Friends @ CAS,   We are back from India .....!!   Gyudmey Tantric College is HOLY ( in every sense of the word !! ) and "Geshe Uma Gyudpa", its Abbot and one of CAS's precious Masters, so kindly kept us under His wings together with hot, steaming "thukpa" and sent us off with His blessings and so many precious parting instructions to keep in our hearts --   At Sera Je, we refused to accept "katags" of more than a hundred of our monks ( which CAS's friends have sponsored for more than one and a half decades, seeing so many of them through their Geshe degrees and beyond !! ) but, instead, forcefully, in fact, giving them our very best and insisted on leaving them our annual offerings together with unbreachable purity of wishes from holy, powerful Tara --   Guru Padmasambhava resides in splendid Namdroling Monastery and even though our Palyul Teachers are physically absent in Pema Kod and Taipei, CAS, at the advice of the Yudronma oracle, commissioned literally thousands of full-scale practices to be completed there, Drepung Loseling and the Drikung temples, for the good of the Dharma, His Holiness and all our mothers lost.     ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________         At Drepung Loseling, we finally met CAS's precious Root Teacher, the 100th Ganden Trisur, the Official Head Emeritus of Je Tsongkhapa's tradition: the Dalai Lama's principal lineage and the largest Tibetan Buddhist School, bringing with us, lifetimes of committed aspirations together with unspeakable depths of the purest devotions -- everything and everything, offered whole and complete, in front of pristine Enlightenment, so thoroughly embodied in someone the Dalai Lama wrote as, "......the incomparable Lord Venerable Teacher".    His Holiness the Ganden Trisur: the 100th Head of the Gelugpa Tradition, is seen and acknowledged by some of the greatest Masters of Tibet, as the very human form of Je Tsongkhapa, whom, in turn, fully encapsulates the Compassion ( Chenrezig ), Wisdom ( Manjushri ) and Power ( Vajrapani ) of the Buddhas.   To His outwardly humble abode in the near-outskirts of Gelugpa's greatest monastic establishment, the legitimate leader of the Tibetans, His Holiness the Dalai Lama ( with His characteristic humility ), the mighty gods and deities, the greatest abbots, the realised Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche and almost every highest-rankings of incarnated masters and heads of lineages, in addition to ( so very ) fortunate disciples, make pilgrimage, offerings of hearts and, in turn, get to see the Guru as HE is: the Venerable Elder - the ordained Bhikshu of the Buddha, the Scholar supremo -- the Maha Pandita, the Lord of Bodhisattvas abiding in the Tushita Pure Land, the King, the Lord of Secrets and Master of the Secret Assemblage - Akshobya Vajra of the great Guhyamsamaja.   Who knows Bliss without the touch of the Guru's lotus feet on the crown of the fortunate disciples ??    "Om Ah Guru Vajradhara Sumati Surya Siddhi Hung Hung ....... !!" ( Rinpoche's Heart Mantra - the mantra for anyone with pure faith and devotion...... )  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________