Blazing Splendor. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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      Karmey Khenpo lived, I believe, into his early eighties and passed away at his hermitage above Karma Gön. He was then reborn as the son of my aunt.

      There had been a prediction from the Lotus-Born master that both Karmey Khenpo and Kongtrul would manifest the rainbow body at the time of death, a sign of great realization. Perhaps it was due to their extensive efforts to benefit others—they were always busy with their many disciples—that neither ended up manifesting the rainbow body.

      There are many factors involved in whether a practitioner attains the rainbow body. Karmey Khenpo, for instance, did reach the level at which all mental phenomena dissolve back into the basic nature of reality: the exhaustion of concepts and phenomena. But even though at that exalted level he should have displayed the rainbow body—the outward sign of this state of realization—he did not do so.

      Likewise, the terma revelations of Chokgyur Lingpa predicted that Kongtrul would leave in a rainbow body when he passed away. But this was prevented because his activities on behalf of sentient beings were too encompassing. One major reason for this is that when there are a lot of disciples, then there are sure to be some broken samayas by some of them; broken samayas have consequences for the teacher and so can prevent the manifestation of a rainbow body. The tantric teachings describe the “rainbow body with remainder,” an occurrence that depends upon the purity of samaya of disciples and benefactors.

      But there are exceptions: not too long ago, Nyagla Pema Dudul attained the rainbow body when he died in the middle of his camp of five hundred disciples; it seems none of them managed to prevent it. Still, most other teachers with the same level of realization, and who have taught openly and widely to numerous disciples, typically do not attain a rainbow body, despite the possibility that they would have done so if they had had fewer students.

      That is probably why it is taught, “If you want to attain the rainbow body, don’t have too many disciples.”

WANGCHOK DORJE

      Wangchok Dorje was one of Chokgyur Lingpa’s three children. One of our chant texts describes him as the “magical display” of King Jah, meaning that he was a reincarnation of the Indian king who, right after the Buddha’s passing, received the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras from Vajrapani, the timeless lord of the tantric teachings. Wangchok Dorje and my grandmother, Könchok Paldrön, were born from the same mother, Lady Degah. The mother of the third child, Tsewang Norbu, was a niece of Old Khyentse.

      After chanting hundreds of thousands of Manjushri mantras, and due to his training in former lives, Wangchok Dorje developed an incredibly sharp intelligence; his insights left people speechless. I have been told that his realization—where he was on the path and the levels he attained—was higher than even that of his tertön father. Wangchok Dorje was still very young when, entirely on his own, he spontaneously recognized the nature of mind.

17. King Jah—the master of Mahayoga

      Later, when people would ask him for meditation teachings, he would reply, “I’m not the kind of person who can guide you to the nature of mind. I didn’t get up on the roof by climbing the stairs one at a time. I got here in one leap. Even if I were to describe my meditation state, you wouldn’t be able to grasp it.”

      It had been prophesied that Wangchok Dorje would reveal all the remaining termas among the New Treasures that hadn’t yet been revealed by his father and ensure their propagation. He was of that caliber.

      From childhood he could see the magical script of the dakinis as though it were right in front of his eyes and he could transcribe it, along with the connected teachings, at will, as they arose in the expanse of his mind. But despite the prophecy, this ability was never put to its fullest use.

      People found Wangchok Dorje incredibly handsome; some even said he had the features of a god and that they had never seen anyone so beautiful. He was quite tall and very strong, with a noble bearing. His hair was very unusual; he wore it long, braided and wrapped around his head. It was described as a “magnetizing tiara,” which meant that it had never been cut and that a dakini dwelled in every strand. His hair shone with a dark blue luster and when he washed it, it never tangled, even if he didn’t comb it.

      Being both the son and the lineage holder of Chokgyur Lingpa, Wangchok Dorje by tradition was supposed to have sons to carry on the family and the lineage. People say he had one hundred lovers. Wherever he went, word went around that girls who wanted a “body connection”—a very physical blessing—with the handsome tulku could just come by to see him. The young women would literally line up, waiting at his quarters each evening.

      But Wangchok Dorje was also an accomplished yogi who had reversed the flow of the white essence and, unlike ordinary men, who ejaculate, he never made anyone pregnant. I don’t know whether this was good or bad, but that’s the way it happened. On the other hand, how often in the old days did you hear of someone who had one hundred girlfriends, yet never made even one of them pregnant?

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