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Just
as Lord Buddha Shakyamuni was born without harming his
mother or causing her even the slightest bit of pain,
the Vidyadhara Migyur Dorje was painlessly born on the
seventh day of the ninth month of the Wood Bird Year
(1645). His right hand was marked by an extraordinary
blue mole, symbolizing the single-essential nature of
the Dharmakaya.
Unlike
other children, as a small child he always made dharma
hand gestures such as the lotus-circle mudra and
threatening mudra, pressing his palms together at his
heart and so forth. In addition, to the astonishment of
everyone, he did secret yogic exercises.
One
day he had a vision of Guru Loden Chogsed, one of the
eight manifestations of Padmasambhava, and through
gesture transmission, he understood how to read and
write. When he was seven years old, in a state of pure
vision, many Primordial Wisdom Dakinis told him of the
importance of relying upon a guru. Instantly, without
any obscuration he had a vision of the great scholar and
siddha, Raga Ah Syei (Chagmed Rinpoche), who was in
solitary retreat, and an intense desire arose to be in
his presence.
In
the year of the Wood Horse, on the eighth day of the
ninth month, when Migyur Dorje was ten years old, he
finally met, with the assistance of the dharma
protectors, the great Chagmed Rinpoche. Chagmed Rinpoche
gave him a purification blessing of Nam Jom and Dor Sem
and carefully examined all of Migyur Dorje’s
attributes. He found that he possessed all of the signs
and marks of an unmistakable manifestation of
Padmasambhava.
In
his eleventh year, the year of the Wood Sheep, on the
ninth day of the first month, Migyur Dorje entered into
retreat with the Mahasiddha Chagmed Rinpoche. While
practicing Terton Ratna Lingpa’s Tsedrub Sangdu and
accomplishing the extensive mandala, he received
continual visions of Buddha Amitayus, Padmasambhava, Red
Hayagriva, the sixteen Arhats, Amitabha, Avalokiteshvara
and many others meditational deities. The signs of his
accomplishment of the practice arose when he stopped an
eclipse of the moon by holding his vital air.
Unobstructedly, he was able to know what was in the
minds of others. He recalled hundreds of thousands of
aeons of time and spoke specifically of each of the
Buddhas who had come, their names, where they traveled
and taught, their parent’s names, their activities,
their difficulties and their accomplishments.
By
the fruit of good virtues and merits, Migyur Dorje had a
vision of the Primordial Dharmakaya Buddha. Through a
sign, he gave Migyur Dorje the empowerment called
Tsewang Dudtsi Gegsel. Then Avalokiteshvara appeared
and, according to the tradition of Thugje Chenpo Gye-u,
gave Migyur Dorje extensive empowerments. Amitabha gave
him the empowerment and transmission of Drubtab Gyatso,
which include some forty deities. Then Padmasambhava
directly transmitted the four empowerments. In addition,
the primordial wisdom and wordly dharma protectors
transmitted each of their individual sadhanas and
authorization empowerments. All of these were collected
into thirteen great volumes called Nam Cho (Space
Treasures). Then Migyur Dorje practiced, fully
accomplished and realized each of these secret
treasures.
Although
Terton Migyur Dorje was destined to reveal earth termas,
the merit of sentient beings was deficient and it was
due to this that his presence in this world was cut
short. In 1667, the year of the Fire Sheep, he was in
his twenty-third year and while staying in a sacred
place in Mugsang, he began to show signs of illness. As
the third month approached, his illness grew worse and
he was forced to stop giving all dharma transmissions.
On the eleventh day of that month, he prayed to the
meditational deities and offered many dedicational
prayers. On the fourteenth day, he had a vision of all
eight Herukas and their accomplishment mandalas. On the
morning of the fifteenth day, he beheld the three
root-peaceful and wrathful assemblies of deities and
assuming the vajra asana posture he entered into
meditative equipoise. On the evening of the sixteenth
day, while counting mantras on his prayers beads, he
passed into the empty sphere of truth and remained
sitting upright in meditative equipoise for three days.
During
the cremation ceremony, astonishing signs were witnessed
by all. Rainbows appeared like pitched tents in a
pristine clear sky.
Migyur Dorje’s heart and tongue remained intact
in the fire, so that future disciples could accumulate
merit. His bone relics were marked with the vowels and
consonants of the Tibetan language. These precious
remains of Terton Migyur Dorje’s body were placed
inside numerous one-storey high golden stupas. These
great stupas became the objects of refuge and
circumambulation for humans and spirits in order for
them to accumulate merit. |
