According to Tibetan Buddhist astrology, we are in “the age of residues” where only traces of the virtue of the “golden age” remain. These troubled times are marked by war, disease, natural disasters, rampant drug use and disrespect towards spirituality. Guru Padmasambhava saw all of this coming and that is why he came up with his terma system of concealing teachings to be discovered by the reincarnations of his twenty-five disciples — called tertons or treasure-revealers — at the appropriate time for these teachings to help the beings of that generation. Tulku Thondup explains, “[Guru Rinpoche] gave the Mind-mandate Transmission of the teachings [to his core group of disciples] and recognized them as his own regents and blessed them to tame the beings of the end-age.”
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COMPASSIONATE ACTION Chatral Rinpoche
Edited, Introduced, and Annotated by Zach Larson Snow Lion Publications Ithaca, New York Boulder, Colorado
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