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STORIES OF PREVIOUS LIVES OF HIS EMINENCE THE 9TH TUKU NETEN RINPOCHE
NHỮNG MẪU CHUYỆN VỀ TIỀN THÂN CỦA NGÀI TULKU NETEN RINPOCHE HÓA THÂN ĐỜI THỨ 9
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There were sixteen
renowned Arhats in India. The Neten Rinpoche’s
lineage can be traced
back to
the 11th Arhat, named Lam Tran Ten Pharpha LamChung *** (Sanskrit name ChudaPantaka, tiếng Việt là Chu Lợi Bàn Đà Dà), who
was reincarnated many times in both India and Tibet as Mahasiddha
Bodhisattvas and as one of the six Neten
disciples of the Great Lama Je Tsongkhapa
of Gelug lineage,
named Neten Kunga Bum.
The 1st
Neten Kunga Bum BUILT the Jungpa Monastery
in Lithang-Kham, Tibet. The present His Eminence Neten Rinpoche was
born just over one year after the passing away of the 8th Neten Rinpoche Ngawang Lobsang Kunga.
In the year 1986,
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama graciously recognized him as
the 9th
reincarnated Tulku Neten Rinpoche Tenzin Gelek,
Highest Lama of the Jungpa Monastery. By this time, he
has been already a great scholar at the SeraMey Monastic University
in south India.
Afterward,
His Eminence The 9th Tulku
Neten Rinpoche
has
completely REBUILT his nine lifetimes Jungpa
Monastery
which has been previously destroyed in Jungpa-Lithang, Tibet
and FOUNDED
the
Jam Tse Cho Ling Dharma Centre in Toronto, province of
Ontario and the Jam Tse Cho Ling Tibetan
Buddhist Temple in Calgary, province of Alberta, both in Canada.
The Arhat Lam Tran Ten Pharpha LamChung ( Sanskrit name
ChudaPantaka
) was reincarnated as
Bậc A La Hán Lam Tran Ten Pharpha LamChung
( tiếng Việt là Chu Lợi Bàn Đà Dà
hay còn gọi là Châu Lợi Bàn Đặc
) đã hóa thân nhiều lần dưới dạng
The 1st Tulku Neten Kunga Bum (Kunga
Gyaltsen) The 2nd
Tulku Neten Choejong
The
3rd Tulku Neten Ngawang Choeden
The 4th Tulku Neten Tsultrim
Tenzin The 5th
Tulku Neten Lobsang Yarphel
The 6th Tulku Neten Lobsang Peljor
The 7th Tulku Neten ChoeSang
(Lobsang Chodrak)
The 8th Tulku Neten Ngawang Lobsang Kunga
The 9th Tulku Neten Tenzin Gelek (the Present His Eminence Tulku Neten Rinpoche)
Ngài Tulku Neten Rinpoche
Tenzin Gelek đương thời
hóa thân đời thứ 9
***
Arya (Pharpha)
ChudaPantaka ( Tibetan
name is
Lam TranTen Pharpha LamChung,
tiếng Việt là
Chu Lợi Bàn Đà Dà
) became an Arhat through
the practice of cleaning.
A long time ago, there was a
Brahman’s family whose sons all died after birth. An elder neighbor
told this family that she would help if they had another son in the
future. After the next child was born, this elder woman handed him
to a girl with the instruction that she should bring him to a major
road and if a noble one came by, she should pay homage to him and
asked for the blessing. When the sun had set, if the child was still
alive then the girl should bring him home, otherwise she should
discard his body. The child was still alive after the sun had set so
the girl carried him home and afterward, he received the name
Mahapantaka (means the major road).
Later, another son was born in the
same family and the elder woman came to help. She gave the child to
another girl with the same instruction. This girl was lazy and
brought the child to the small road. There was no Brahman came by,
only the Buddha purposely came, prayed and gave him his blessing.
The child was still alive after the sun had set, he was carried home
and then obtained the name ChudaPantaka (means the small road).
Both sons grew up but MahaPantaka was
intelligent and skillful in all subjects, as well as able to taught
sacred words to others while ChudaPantaka was utterly slow and dull
and was refused to teach by many teachers.
Later, after the parents died,
MahaPantaka joined the Buddha Shakya’s group, studied and mastered
the three baskets and became an Arhat. ChudaPantaka exhausted his
parents’ wealth and was instructed by his older brother to become
ordained as a monk.
MahaPantaka asked ChudaPantaka to
memorize the following verses
Do no evil with
body, speech, mind and
Grasping at
everything in the world
Those who are
empty of desire, mindful, and circumspect
Do not seek
suffering or the useless.
but after three months he was still
not able to remember them.
Arya MahaPantaka thought that the
criticism would be more effective then after saying hash words to
his brother, he threw him out of the monastery. ChudaPantaka felt
sad and cried for his situation. The Buddha stirred by great
compassion, helped him to understand things and gave him a chance to
remove his bad karma, declared:
There is praise by
the foolish
Criticism by the
wise
Criticism by the
wise is excellent
Not so by the
foolish
The Buddha then gave ChudaPantaka
this phrase to recite: “I am removing dust, I am removing dirt”.
ChudaPantaka could not remember this phrase so the Blessed One asked
him to wipe the shoes of the monks. Some time later, he learned this
phrase.
Then the Blessed One gave him the
work of sweeping the main prayer hall by reciting this phrase. Each
time ChuadaPantaka cleaned the right side of the hall, the Buddha
miraculously caused the left side to fill the dust. The same
happened when he cleaned the left side, the right side was filled by
dust. ChudaPantaka persevered until his karmic obscurations were
cleared away and heard these verses:
This dust is
desire, not particles of dirt
This dust is
hatred, not particles of dirt
This dust is
ignorance, not particles of dirt
The wise get rid
themselves of this dust
And are attentive
to the Sugata’s teaching
ChudaPantaka
achieved the status of an Arhat after meditating on the meaning of
these verses.
The Buddha wanted everyone to know
ChudaPantaka’s virtues and knowledge then instructed ChudaPantaka to
teach the bhikshunis. However, the bhikshunis were not pleased of
this because they did not want to accept a little learning teacher
who had not been able to recite a verse after three months. They
then carried out a plan to make sure that ChudaPantaka will not come
again to their temple in the future.
Twelve bhikshunis prepared a very
high throne without staircase for ChudaPantaka. Others announced to
everyone in the city of the teachings of the great and extraordinary
disciple of Buddha. Hundreds of thousands of people assembled the
next day when ChudaPantaka came for the teaching. As he approached
the throne, he realized that the intention of these bhikshunis is to
show scorn. Extending his arm like an elephant’s trunk, he pushed
down the throne and seated himself. He first entered a state of
meditation and became invisible, then he raised himself into the sky
and displayed four types of magical powers. At last, he once again
seated on the throne.
He began his discourse by saying that
he would teach in seven days the meaning of the verses which had
taken him three months to memorize. He explained that the verse “Do
no evil with body, speech, and mind” means to eschew the ten
non-virtuous actions. “everything in the world” refers the five
heaps, and “grasping” means grasping of the three poisons: desire,
hatred, and ignorance.
ChudaPantaka’s teaching made many
audiences attained the realization, developed an aspiration for the
enlightenment of different paths, and gained faith in the Three
Jewels.
Afterward, the Buddha declared that
of all his disciples, ChudaPantaka was the most skilled at producing
a beneficial change in beings’ mind.
OTHER
STORIES OF PREVIOUS LIVES OF HIS EMINENCE THE 9th TULKU NETEN RINPOCHE
NHỮNG MẪU CHUYỆN KHÁC
VỀ TIỀN
THÂN CỦA NGÀI TULKU NETEN RINPOCHE HOÁ THÂN ĐỜI THỨ 9
STORY I:
The Letter of His Holiness The 7th Dalai Lama Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso has been given to The 5th Neten Rinpoche Lobsang Yarphel
-
Lá thư của Đức Đà Lai Lạt Ma
đời thứ 7 Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso gởi cho Ngài Neten Rinpoche
Lobsang Yarphel hóa thân đời thứ 5.
STORY II: Lhakhang Tso Lake - Hồ Lhakhang
In the previous life, Neten Rinpoche resided in the Jungpa monastery
in Tibet where there was a lake called Lhakhang Tso.
Very far from the Jungpa monastery there was a village named Getang
where there was a lake called Getang Ome Tso (Getang Milk Lake).
This village didn’t have rain for a long time so people requested
Neten Rinpoche to come for a prayer to receive rain and offered Him
gold and many Dharma Treatise books (Kanzur).
The monastery in this village thought that this was
their best offering and it would not be their fault if Neten
Rinpoche could not take these books due to the long distance between
the two places and would give them back to this monastery, but Neten
Rinpoche put all of these books into to the
Getang Milk Lake
and left.
Neten Rinpoche went back to the Jungpa monastery and told the monks
to go get the books in the Lhakhang Tso Lake. The monks retrieved
the books but one was missing. Neten Rinpoche told them not to worry
about the missing book noting it would arrive in a few days because
one of the nagas had a problem with its legs. Later on the monks got
the book.
STORY III:
There was an old woman in Getang village who wanted to offer Neten
Rinpoche a cup filled with gold but the distance between the Jungpa
monastery and her village was too far for Neten Rinpoche to travel
to. The woman requested that at the time of her death, she would
like to have Neten Rinpoche at her side to pray and Neten Rinpoche
gave her his promise.
When that time came, Neten Rinpoche asked his assistant to lock his
room for one week and not open it for any reason but the assistant
was worried about Neten Rinpoche not having food or drink during
such a long time, so he opened the door to check, and saw Neten
Rinpoche was dead.
Another assistant decided to quickly burn Neten Rinpoche’s body on
the seventh day of his absence. During the cremation time, there was
a bird that flew by and it fell into the fire.
Jungpa people said that Neten Rinpoche had gone to pray for the old
woman. He came back and really passed away due to the loss of his
body.
STORY IV:
One day, the Jungpa monastery needed a lot of wood to build the
monastery. The trees had already been cut in the forest and were
ready to be carried to the monastery.
One night, Neten
Rinpoche and his assistant went to the forest to pick up the wood.
He told the assistant to pull one wood to the monastery, the rest of
the wood was behind him and he should not look back no matter
what was happening. When the assistant was near the monastery, he
heard many terrible noises behind him. He was so scare and forgot Neten Rinpoche's order to not look back. When he looked back, all
the wood behind was stopped.
STORY V:
There was a family named Druk Gyel Sang in the Jungpa village and
they were building a house on the farm. The family had a boy
named ChoSang
who had not yet been recognized as Neten Rinpoche. One day the boy
went to the mountain to cut the trees and threw the wood on the
space. The wood went through a tree and flew straight to the place
where the house would be built and fell exactly with the wood
straight up at the main pillar of the house. That wood was still
there today. This place was called “DaShing” (Da means the arrow and
Shing means the farm).
Later on this boy was recognized as the 7th
Neten ChoSang (He
was also called Lobsang ChoDak). Presently in this village there
are
still
shoes print of this
Neten Rinpoche on
a
stone.
STORY VI: The Throne of the 8th Neten Ngawang Lobsang Kunga
was
built on the way to the Jungpa monastery
STORY VII: Story of another Throne will be available later
COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF HIS
EMINENCE THE 9TH TULKU NETEN RINPOCHE
TOÀN BỘ TIỂU SỬ CỦA
NGÀI TULKU NETEN RINPOCHE HÓA THÂN ĐỜI THỨ 9
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