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Nineteenth-century Tibetan mystic Tertön Sogyal was a visionary, whose mastery of meditation led him to be a revered teacher to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. Known for his deep spiritual insights and service to the nation of Tibet, Tertön Sogyal's ability to harness the power of the mind was born of both his profound understanding of the Buddha's teachings and his unique experiences, all the while striving for peace against tremendous odds. His life is an example of courage and diligence appreciated by spiritual practitioners of all traditions; and his practical instructions on meditation and opening one's heart--amid conflict, uncertainty, and change--are as relevant today as they were during his lifetime.
Fearless in Tibet, the first comprehensive work in English on Tertön Sogyal, captures the essence of his teachings and his inner world of visions and spiritual realizations. It also brings to life the challenges he faced during his early yogic training and his efforts to promote harmony between Tibet and China.
Combining riveting storytelling and Tertön Sogyal's profound instructions, Matteo Pistono takes you on a journey through the mystical past that reveals practical inner guidance for today's challenges. You will see the power of transforming negativity into opportunity, letting go of attachments, becoming present, and embracing impermanence. This intricate tapestry of intrigue and spirituality will infuse your path with timeless wisdom and inspiration.
- Sales Rank: #175354 in Books
- Published on: 2014
- Released on: 2014-05-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .87" w x 6.00" l, 1.50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
From the Author
My first encounter with Tertön Sogyal was seeing a striking photograph of him at the Rigpa meditation center in London; that evening I also met Sogyal Rinpoche for the first time. I had just arrived in England for a master's degree program in Buddhist philosophy at the University of London. After seeing the photograph, I started asking questions about Tertön Sogyal's life; but though I spoke with lamas, Western scholars, and Tibetans historians, no one could tell
me much about him except that Tertön Sogyal was the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's teacher and a Vajrakilaya adept. Despite knowing so little about him, I felt an inexplicable connection to Tertön Sogyal. I was also drawn to Tertön Sogyal's teachings by observing Sogyal Rinpoche's extraordinary embodiment and example of a Dzogchen yogi, and his immense kindness in revealing Tibet's wisdom tradition through his own teachings.
After receiving my degree in London, I went to Tibet to follow in Tertön Sogyal's footsteps, to sit where he meditated in hermitages and caves, and to speak to lineage holders, including Khenpo Jikme Phuntsok, who helped me to visit some of the tertön's holy sites. From the late 1990s to 2008, I traveled to Tibet a dozen times, each trip lasting from one to three months. Riding rickety buses to Golok, Nyarong, and Rebkong, hitchhiking to Lhasa from Kham and Amdo, and walking for weeks to arrive at ancient pilgrimage sites across the Tibetan Plateau, I visited nearly every location where Tertön Sogyal lived and taught. I carried letters of introduction, and offerings, from Sogyal Rinpoche to lamas in Tibet, which opened to me a world that I would not have otherwise had access to. In 2006 Sogyal Rinpoche encouraged me to write Tertön Sogyal's biography.
The narrative in Fearless in Tibet is my chronicle of the life of Tertön Sogyal based on a number of authoritative sources. My primary source was Tulku Tsullo's lengthy spiritual biography of Tertön Sogyal that was carved onto woodblocks in the 1940s, about 15 years after Tertön Sogyal's passing. Entitled The Marvelous Garland of White Lotuses, it is the only known biography and is based upon mystical prophecies about Tertön Sogyal by Padmasambhava and other saintly persons. Little in the way of history in a Western sense exists in Tsullo's traditional
hagiography, though when one reads it alongside other historical sources--Tibetan, Chinese, and Western, some of which are in the Reference section--it is clear that Tertön Sogyal's mystical visions and spiritual revelations occurred during very specific episodes in the tumultuous political times in late-19th- and early-20th century Tibet. Venerable Tenzin Choephel of Nechung Monastery led me through Tsullo's 725-page biography over the course of six
weeks in Dharamsala and Washington, D.C. I also benefited greatly from Lotsawa Adam Pearcey's unpublished outline of Tsullo's biography and the many conversations I had with him with about Tertön Sogyal. Fearless in Tibet would not have appeared without Venerable Tenzin Choephel's skillful interpretations and endless patience, and Lotsawa Adam's scholarship.
I have incorporated into the narrative of Fearless in Tibet much of the oral record recounted to me by great lamas and elderly hermits--some in their Tibetan homeland and others in exile--who hold the blessing of Tertön Sogyal. Most of the lamas in Tibet to whom I listened have since died. Their fantastic stories Tertön Sogyal were told over butter tea and tsampa in Nyarong, Kandze, Golok, and Lhasa, and in sacred grottoes, monasteries, and wooden huts. The 15-year journey to listen to accounts of scenes from Tertön Sogyal's life also took me to meet lamas and scholars in China, India, Nepal, France, England, and America. A few accounts about Tertön Sogyal by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and other masters I found in the Rigpa archive in Lerab Ling. I am especially indebted to the late Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche and Khamtrul Rinpoche in Dharamsala, whose writings and stories brought Tertön Sogyal's mysticism and yogic perseverance and grit to life.
Another thread I wove into the narrative of Fearless in Tibet is the sacred landscape connected to Tertön Sogyal. By traveling with devout monks and nuns and tough nomads to the most remote of power places, I learned how the inner pilgrimage creates a shift in our perception, so that the terrain we travel transforms from a wilderness into a sacred topography in which the mountains and rivers, streams and glaciers, the very pebbles that our feet touch, is part of a mandala. This was where Tertön Sogyal's visionary world unfolded, where protector guardians delivered hidden treasure to him, and where the tertön imbued the environment with profound blessing that is still palpable today despite the political upheaval of the last 60 years.
Tsullo notes in the colophon to his biography that it is nearly impossible to write about Tertön Sogyal's life because it is beyond any conceptual framework. But, Tsullo also reminds us that Tertön Sogyal's life is a story that needs to be told. I carried this paradox with me while writing Fearless in Tibet. I know who Tertön Sogyal is ultimately is beyond words. The ultimate guru cannot be described, only realized. Inevitably, though, to write Tertön Sogyal's story I had to position him against the turbulent socio-political backdrop, place him in a linear historical sequence, and show his apparent challenges and frustrations. Despite this, I pray that the
reader still comes to know the Tertön Sogyal who is beyond concepts, to see the nonabiding mystic, and to glimpse the yogi who is deathless. For any shortcomings in Fearless in Tibet, especially if I have created any reified views of Tertön Sogyal, I take complete responsibility, and I ask forgiveness from the masters, from you the reader, and especially from the guardians of the Tertön Sogyal's precious teachings.
On my last research trip in 2008, I went to a nomadic region in Golok, to the remote valley of Nyagar, to visit the site where Tertön Sogyal passed away. A three-story high conical-shaped stupa had just been erected in the tertön's memory; I wrote about this in my first book, In the Shadow of the Buddha (2011). The stupa had been filled with hundreds of volumes of scriptures draped in brocade; statues; mantra-infused medicines and juniper powder. I carried with me the last items to place inside--a collection of relics that I had collected from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Sogyal Rinpoche, Khamtrul Rinpoche, and other masters. After the silk-wrapped bundle was set inside the heart-center of the stupa, I closed a stone door, sealing in the blessings so that they might emanate outward for generations to come. Before climbing down the ladder, I placed a wooden sign by the portal, engraved with the name that Sogyal Rinpoche had bestowed upon the site: Enlightenment Stupa of Tertön Sogyal, Lerab Lingpa, Victorious in All Directions.
In some ways, that was the last step in my decade-long pilgrimage; it was not unlike the way writing this book has concluded a long-held aspiration of mine to tell the life story of Tertön Sogyal. Yet, in following in the footsteps of the master--whether retracing his steps on foot or on the page--we return to the place we were before the journey began, where the master has been pointing us to all along. It is that space of innate wakefulness which is our potential for enlightenment, where we pray, in the words of Tertön Sogyal's aspiration nearly a century ago: "May I realize directly, here and now, the face of the ultimate guru, my very own nature of mind."
From the Back Cover
Matteo Pistono's quest to visit places in Tibet associated with Tertön Sogyal, the adept who was a companion of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, is revealing not only of the Tertön Sogyal life but also of circumstances in contemporary Tibet.
-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Pistono's first book, In the Shadow of the Buddha
When so little is known in general about Tertön Sogyal, it is timely indeed that Matteo Pistono has written this book about him... In this book, he throws light on a whole world and period of history, and brings Tertön Sogyal's story to life, based on his own tireless research, for which I congratulate him.
--Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Fifteen years in the making, Matteo Pistono has written a lyrical biography of Tertön Sogyal (1856-1926), the most powerful tantric master of his era. Pistono's gracefully written stories are evocative and magically playful. But his rendition of Tertön Sogya's journey is also critical to understanding the fate of Tibet. As a dakini named Tsephei warned the master in 1915, "If China and Tibet fight in the future, everyone will lose, but in the end Tibet will succumb." This is now the living tragedy of our Tibet.
--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and historian.
The life of Tertön Sogyal offers an epic tale of great spiritual practice. Fascinating to read, the story shares many key teachings as well. Fearless in Tibet is a gem for anyone interested in Tibetan Buddhist practice and culture.
--Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness
Fearless in Tibet is filled with stories and poetry centering around the most profound topics in our human civilization. And what's more--it's a remarkably good read. A unique spiritual biography and a must for all followers of Padmasambhava's teachings.
-- Erik Pema Kunsang, author of Wellsprings of the Great Perfection
About the Author
Matteo Pistono is a writer, photographer, practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, and author of Fearless in Tibet: The Life of the Mystic Tertön Sogyal (Hay House 2014). Pistono lived and traveled throughout Tibet and the Himalayas for a decade, bringing to the West graphic accounts and photos of China's human rights abuses in Tibet, detailed in his memoir, In the Shadow of the Buddha (Dutton 2011). Pistono's writings and photographs about Tibetan and Himalayan cultural, political, and spiritual landscapes have appeared in The Washington Post, BBC's In-Pictures, The Global Post, Men's Journal, Kyoto Journal, and HIMAL South Asia. He is the founder of Nekorpa (nekorpa.org), a non-profit foundation working to protect sacred pilgrimage sites around the world, and he sits on the Executive Council of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, and the Board of Directors of Rigpa Fellowship and the Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture. Pistono and his wife, Monica, divide their time between Wyoming, Washington DC, and Asia.
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Who is this man?
By E. Featherstone
Great work researching the life of Terton Sogyal. Have you met Sogyal Rinpoche? or Jigme Puntsok? This is the predecessor. He achieved greatness because of selfless service to the Dharma and the 13th Dalai Lama, thus to Tibet in the late 19th, early 20th century. Worth reading.
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IT IS A GREAT BOOK IF YOU ALL INTO TIBET BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
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IT IS A GREAT BOOK IF YOU ALL INTO TIBET BELIEFS AND PRACTICES.
I WISH THE BOOK COULD GO ON AND ON.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Magic and Politics in Tibet
By Edward A. Dickey
Matteo Pistono's first book, In the Shadow of the Buddha, was an engaging account of his own travels in Tibet and of the human rights abuses that he encountered and sought to expose. Fearless in Tibet is a completely different book, about the life of an incarnate lama and treasure revealer who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A highly realized practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition, Terton Sogyal discovered many of the treasures concealed in the eighth century by Padmasambhava, the tantric adept and second Buddha, who overcame enormous obstacles to firmly establish Buddhism in Tibet. The treasures that Terton Sogyal discovered could take the form of caskets containing special dakini script that revealed powerful practices and teachings, statues of buddhas, and stones with life enhancing properties. These treasures had power to help protect Tibet and the Thirteenth Dalai Lama from foreign invaders, internal sectarian strife, and black magic. Concealed and kept pure until the time was right for their revelation, treasures were typically recovered from lakes or magical openings in rock walls. For the average modern reader, with little knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism, all of this (along with the many visions and prophecies) might be difficult to believe. But for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners material reality as ordinarily perceived is not the last word. Vajrayana practices are seen as a means of purifying and transforming that reality.
I found this book more readable than most biographies of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist masters, which can be quite interior. Exhaustively researched over a fifteen-year period of study, collaboration, and travel, the author brings the story to life with imaginative descriptions of the world in which Terton Sogyal lived. Whether visiting a Lhasa marketplace, passing traders of many nations along the silk road, or wandering through the hallways and chapels of the Potala Palace, we have a sense of being there.
Apart from the "magical" elements, there are plenty of practical political machinations to add interest to the narrative, with Quing China, British India, and Tsarist Russia vying for influence and control, and a fundamentalist religious sect within Tibet seeking to undermine the Thirteenth Dalai Lama from within.
In addition to being a treasure revealer, Terton Sogyal was a great master and teacher of Dzogchen meditation. My favorite passages are those which describe the meditation and Dzogchen teachings he gives to his followers. And throughout the book we find many inspiring passages from Dharma practices, including practices discovered and written down by Terton Sogyal.
This is an amazing book and we are fortunate to have it.
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