Comments on: The Demise of the Great Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen https://www.dorjeshugden.com/introduction/history/the-demise-of-the-great-tulku-drakpa-gyeltsen/ The Protector whose time has come Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Michaela Smith https://www.dorjeshugden.com/introduction/history/the-demise-of-the-great-tulku-drakpa-gyeltsen/comment-page-1/#comment-205436 Michaela Smith Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:11:32 +0000 http://www.dorjeshugden.com/?p=14415#comment-205436 Dear DS.com Thank you for this article. I found this article several years ago. At the time I did not understand the significance of TDG allowing himself to be murdered by the Dalai Lama's attendants. I thought at the time why TDG allowed the attendants to create heavy negative karma by killing him. It did not make sense to me ... However, after relying on DS for several years, I begin to understand that sometimes, things did not go as per my expectations or projections because DS is omniscience and I am not. I feel that TDG is so compassionate to allow himself to be killed in order to fulfil his promise to Nechung. The Dalai Lama's attendants already had the evil intent to kill him and that in itself is a heavy negative karma. TDG was using this as a mean to generate wrath and arise as a very powerful Dharma protector. Michaela Dear DS.com

Thank you for this article. I found this article several years ago. At the time I did not understand the significance of TDG allowing himself to be murdered by the Dalai Lama’s attendants. I thought at the time why TDG allowed the attendants to create heavy negative karma by killing him. It did not make sense to me …

However, after relying on DS for several years, I begin to understand that sometimes, things did not go as per my expectations or projections because DS is omniscience and I am not. I feel that TDG is so compassionate to allow himself to be killed in order to fulfil his promise to Nechung. The Dalai Lama’s attendants already had the evil intent to kill him and that in itself is a heavy negative karma. TDG was using this as a mean to generate wrath and arise as a very powerful Dharma protector.

Michaela

]]> By: Sean Jones https://www.dorjeshugden.com/introduction/history/the-demise-of-the-great-tulku-drakpa-gyeltsen/comment-page-1/#comment-204256 Sean Jones Sun, 27 Mar 2016 05:38:42 +0000 http://www.dorjeshugden.com/?p=14415#comment-204256 Hello, I have now found the source myself, this story is basically taken from Ktabje Trijang Rinpoche's 1967 text in Tibetan, called in brief 'Gyalchen Todrel' (Wylie: ’khrul ba’i rol rtsed); someone has translated it and then you have presented it here in this kind of comic-book format. Hope this is helpful, since you were unable to respond yourselves. Have a good day. Hello, I have now found the source myself, this story is basically taken from Ktabje Trijang Rinpoche’s 1967 text in Tibetan, called in brief ‘Gyalchen Todrel’ (Wylie: ’khrul ba’i rol rtsed); someone has translated it and then you have presented it here in this kind of comic-book format.
Hope this is helpful, since you were unable to respond yourselves.
Have a good day.

]]> By: Sean Jones https://www.dorjeshugden.com/introduction/history/the-demise-of-the-great-tulku-drakpa-gyeltsen/comment-page-1/#comment-204243 Sean Jones Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:49:45 +0000 http://www.dorjeshugden.com/?p=14415#comment-204243 Dear Sirs, I am interested in Tibet and its history especially in the 15th to 17th centuries and studying various history books. I found your detailed account of the demise of Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen very interesting but I could not find it given anywhere else in any of the various history books in English that I have collected and read so far. I therefore wonder if you would kindly intimate to me the source that you have taken this account from as I am thinking about writing an article which would also cover this subject, it is concerning the life and times of the 5th Dalai Lama and I would be very interested to know the actual historica source of this account that I could quote in the article (since unsourced articles on websites like this would not be up to academic standards for citation). I hope you will understand and let me know, many thanks indeed, Sean Jones France Dear Sirs, I am interested in Tibet and its history especially in the 15th to 17th centuries and studying various history books. I found your detailed account of the demise of Tulku Drakpa Gyeltsen very interesting but I could not find it given anywhere else in any of the various history books in English that I have collected and read so far.
I therefore wonder if you would kindly intimate to me the source that you have taken this account from as I am thinking about writing an article which would also cover this subject, it is concerning the life and times of the 5th Dalai Lama and I would be very interested to know the actual historica source of this account that I could quote in the article (since unsourced articles on websites like this would not be up to academic standards for citation).
I hope you will understand and let me know, many thanks indeed,
Sean Jones
France

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