Reincarnation Story
Recently reported in the Star that a monk, Khenpo Yeshe (45year old) is now teaching a small boy who reincarnated from his own late master, the revered Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,a great Tibetan spiritual master.
Basics:
- Khenpo Yeshe was 23 when he came under the tutelage of his late master who is a very revered great Tibetan spiritual master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (75 years old).
- In 1991, Khyentse passed away at the age of 81. He was one of the greatest luminaries of the last century and his many students included members of the royal family of Bhutan.
- A decade later, in 2001, Khenpo was entrusted with the task of teaching the reincarnation of Khyentse, who is now 14 years old.
About the boy who is reincarnated from the great master, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche:
- Those who knew Khyentse noticed striking similarities in behaviour
- When receiving guests, the young Khyentse has a peculiar way of placing his hand on people’s head to bless them. With those close to him, he would put his hand around them and pull them close, as if in a hug. He would then lay his head on their head. No one had told the young boy how to do that.
- The way he sits is just like the previous Khyentse,
- The young boy also loves to play with plastic toy animals like Khyentse
- Like the previous Khyentse, the young Khyentse is very hospitable towards visitors.
- He shows great concern for the poor and those who are suffering.
- An interesting story narrated about the young boy: “The previous Khyentse had a very close student and attendant for over 14 years – Matthieu Ricard. When the young Khyentse was a year- and-a-half, his father, Choklim Rinpoche, introduced him to one of his students and the boy looked at him. As soon as the student left, he told his father: ‘That wasn’t Matthieu.’ It was as if he was waiting for Matthieu to come back and take care of him.”
- The young Khyentse shows a maturity beyond his years. He speaks, thinks and acts like an elderly person,
Append below the Interesting physic/clairvoyant story of how the young boy was discovered as the reincarnation of Khyentse Rinpoche:
- After Khyentse Rinpoche’s death, all his students, including the Dalai Lama (the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet), turned to Khyentse’s most accomplished disciple, Trulshik Rinpoche (72 years old), to identify his “unmistakable reincarnation”.
- “One day, Trulshik had a vision of our (Khyentse’s) monastery in Nepal – Shechen Tennyi Dhargye Ling – with eight stupas (usually white) which represent Buddha’s enlightened mind. One of them was bigger than the rest and was brilliant red,” says Khenpo. “He thought it was a beautiful stupa. Then the rest of the stupas dissolved into this red stupa. And the red stupa moved over to a little monastery called Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling, east of our monastery.” Trulshik thought it was sad that this stupa had left Khyentse’s monastery and had moved to another. Perhaps it was an ill omen for the monastery. As he pondered, he looked at the Shechen monastery and it had become even more resplendent and beautiful than before. Next he saw a parrot in a room and it spoke. When that vision vanished, Trulshik could not remember the words.
- A couple of days later, he had a vision of Khyentse and the words of the parrot came to his mind. He wrote them down. The meaning of the four-line poem was cryptic.
- “There was mention of Shechen monastery and to the east of that, born to the father Mingyur Dewai Dorje and the mother, Dechen Paldron, is the unmistaken reincarnation of Khyentse,” relates Khenpo. “Now, everybody knew the father of the reincarnation of Khyentse as Chokling Rinpoche, and not by his childhood name. Yet, the childhood name appeared in Trulshik’s vision. He wrote down what he saw in his vision and in April 1995, sent it to the head of Shechen monastery, Rabjam Rinpoche. Rabjam is the grandson of the previous Khyentse Rinpoche. “When the news broke, Chokling Rinpoche and his wife were delighted to entrust their son to the monastery,” says Khenpo.
- On Dec 28, 1995, Trulshik, met the two-and-a-half-year-old child, who was recognised as the reincarnation of Khyentse.
- Trulshik offered him a long white ceremonial scarf and the child, as if perfectly versed in this traditional greeting, placed it around Trulshik’s neck.
As the wheel of destiny turns, Khenpo (45 years old) who is previously the student, now is the teacher who is now tutoring this young Khyentse who is his reincarnated master/teacher.
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