Today, a group of Bhutanese Neykorpa( 25th Batch) visited the Zurkhar Do Gi Chorten at Samye, Tibet. So far, no one visited this ney before. This is the third group from Bhutan to visited this place.
After repeated invitations and many months of waiting, King Trisong Detsen finally met Guru Padmasambahva for the first time here, at Zurkhar Do (Confluence of the Twin Castle). When the Tibetan King approached the Mahaguru, however, it was with a royal air of haughtiness; the exchange that ensued points to a crucial moment of taming––where the teacher humbles his student’s pride and so prepares the field of his mind for the planting of potent Dharma seeds.
The Mahaguru came into view and approached, as the many attendants looked on. The time had come for their meeting, but who would pay their respects to whom? The Mahaguru stood tall, knowing it would be inappropriate for a representative of the Buddha to bow before the mundane authority of the king, while King Trisong Detsen stood in rumination, reflecting on his status as overlord of the land, in the expectation that Guru Rinpoche should bow down before him just as Shantaraksh*ta had done.
The King and his retinue were shocked and affronted at this disrespectful response. Guru Rinpoche then made a slight hand gesture, unleashing flames from his fingers and burning the King’s fine clothes to a crisp. Unable to bear it any longer, everybody—king, queens, ministers, and retinue—fell to the ground, prostrating before the Mahaguru, and King Trisong Detsen began offering his apologies.
BIRTH PLACE OF 𝐙𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞.
Guru Padmasambhava continued over hill and dale, from the borderlands of Mangyul toward the heartland of Tibet, taming all manner of haughty spirits along the way. Finally, the Mahaguru reached the Tolung Valley, just outside the city of Lhasa, in Central Tibet. Getting wind that his new guest had arrived, King Trisong Detsen sent a welcoming party to greet the Mahaguru and guide him back to the palace in Drakmar. Thus, it was here in Tolung that the king’s envoys met the Mahaguru—and found they were without water to serve their guest tea. Guru Rinpoche thereupon plunged his walking stick into the earth and water came shooting forth, giving the place its name, Shongpa Lhachu (Divine Spring). This was yet another sign that the Tibetans had welcomed no ordinary visitor into their kingdom; it was a harbinger of the many miracles to come.Chimmi D WangBhutaneseNeykor Neykor
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