Homage to Those Gone Beyond!

If you want to sync up with the wisdom mind of Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche while he offers the Prajnaparamita empowerment at PBC Puerto this morning on Sat, December 6, 2025 at 10:00am, you can practice Guru Yoga. This is a principal practice of Vajrayana and Dzogchen, and is always available to mingle your mind with the wisdom mind of the buddhas.

We can also read about the Prajnaparamita Sutras to inspire our bodhichitta to care for the happiness and enlightenment of all beings!

Such as in Patrul Rinpoche's "Concise Explanation of the Paths and Bhumis of Bodhisattvas, the Children of the Victors," where he describes the qualities of bodhisattvas as the enter the very first bhumi of Supreme Joy and their bodhichitta is constantly on:

"In a single moment (they possess) the twelve [qualities] of [being able to] enter, and rise from, one hundred samädhis, see the faces of one hundred buddhas, know the blessings of one hundred buddhas, go to one hundred buddha realms, shake one hundred realms, fill one hundred realms with light, mature one hundred sentient beings, display a single moment as one hundred eons, engage in the vision of wisdom during one hundred earlier and later limits, open one hundred doors of dharma, display one hundred of their own bodies, and display each of these bodies with one hundred excellent retinues. At this stage they are able to take rebirth as a [cakravartin] king over Jambudvipa. Since this first bhümi, one among the ten bhümis of the noble ones, represents the seeing of the reality that is the nature of phenomena, it is the path of seeing. Since it is endowed with many joys that are unlike [what was experienced) before, it is [called] "Supreme Joy."

Patrul Rinpoche explains that these twelve special qualities are multiplied in the following way through the next nine levels of the bodhisattva bhumis:

• 2nd bhumi: x one thousand

• 3rd bhumi: 100,000

• 4th bhumi: ten million

• 5th bhumi: one billion

• 6th bhumi: ten billion

• 7th bhumi: ten sextillion

• 8th bhumi: x the number of the minutest particles that make up 100,000 of the greatest chiliocosm ( = billion worlds or a galaxy-sized universes)

• 9th bhumi: x the number of the minutest particles that make up one million of the greatest chiliocosm

• 10th bhumi: x the number of the minuest particles of the pure realms, [whose number] is even more inexpressible than that of the number of the inexpressible [number of buddha realms.]

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Photo of Avalokiteshvara as a Bodhisattva from the Padma Samye Ling temple mural paintings, and of Ven. Khenpo Rinpoche during a Vajrapani empowerment at PSL in 2018.

Root text translated by Karl Brunnholz in "Groundless Paths: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Nyingma Tradition" (pg 549).