The Majestic Flower of Compassion
The thangka of the Jataka story of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok The Majestic Flower of Compassion contains a total of 17 thangkas.
This set of thangkas was painted by famous thangka painters such as Lameng under the guidance of Gyatso Rinpoche, a close disciple of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok, as well as integrated the opinions with H.H. Dakini Muntso and the Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro and other living Buddhas.
The Majestic Flower of Compassion is the only artistic work that displays the life stories of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok in the form of Thangka. Its expressive techniques are full of vitality, and its painting art attainments are profound. The painting style of this set of Thangkas is vivid, simple and easy to understand, and faithfully restores and shows the endless compassion and solemnity of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok.
This set of Thangkas is enshrined in the Memorial Parinirvana Hall of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.
相好庄严之花
法王如意宝晋美彭措的本生故事唐卡“相好庄严之花”共包含十七幅唐卡。此套唐卡是由法王如意宝的亲弟子加措活佛在以门措上师和慈诚罗珠堪布为主的堪布和活佛们的指导下请拉孟等著名唐卡画家绘制而成。
“相好庄严之花”是唯一以唐卡的形式来表现法王如意宝生平事迹的艺术作品。其表现手法充满活力,绘画艺术造诣深厚。该套唐卡画风生动,深入浅出,如实地还原和展现了法王如意宝无尽的慈悲和庄严。
此套唐卡供奉在五明佛学院的法王如意宝圆寂法会馆中。
This set of Thangkas The Majestic Flower of Compassion was provided by Gyatso Rinpoche.
Translation Advisor: Tsewang Rinpoche
Translators: Pasang, Lokky, Sixia
Proofreaded: Jenny, Aili, Angela
1 Birth 诞生
Main: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok was born in 1933, on the third day of the first month of the Tibetan year of the Water Bird, in the Sertar region of Kham. As soon as H.H. was born, he sat upright without assistance, draped the placenta over his left shoulder as a monk would wear his robe, opened his eyes, and recited the mantra of Manjushri, “Om a ra pa tsa na dhi.”
Upper left: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok was the incarnation of the famous treasure revealer Lerab Lingpa, also known as Terchen Sogyel Dzogchen teacher of the 13th Dalai Lama.
Upper right: Pema Dorje prophesied that the boy was an excellent being.
主图:法王如意宝于藏历水鸡年一月三日诞生在圣地紫媚曲列。他一出生随即便身体端直金刚跏趺而坐,如僧人一般将胎盘像披法衣一样甩到左肩上。他睁开双眼,口中朗朗念诵文殊心咒“嗡啊惹巴扎纳德”。
左上:法王的前世是著名伏藏师列绕朗巴,他是十三世达赖喇嘛的大圆满传承上师。
右上:莲花金刚大师巴多活佛预示说:“这个孩子一定是一位了不起的高僧大德的转世灵童。”
2 Childhood 童年
Main: At the age of six, H.H. Jigme Phunktsok revealed treasure from the stone crack, which was the Terma of Vadisimha Manjushri. After praying very sincerely, he mastered reading and writing without learning and comprehended the general content of all exotoric and tantric Sutras.
Bottom left: H.H. Jigme Phunktsok saw the vivid scene from more than 900 years ago when he was Dan Sras Yuodbume, the minister of King Gesar.
Bottom right: When playing, H.H. revealed a lot of treasures and Buddha statues with no difficulty.
Middle: In pure vision, H.H. Jigme Phunktsok saw Manjushri.
Top: Peaceful and wrathful deities appeared to H.H. in pure visions.
主图:六岁时,法王从石堆缝隙取出一个小纸团,是《文殊语狮子修法》的伏藏。法王虔诚祈祷后得加持相,不经学习便掌握了读和写,领悟了一切显密经典的大致教义。
左下:法王清晰地见到九百多年前身为格萨尔王的大臣丹哲悦欧布美时的情景。
右下:法王时常在玩耍时轻而易举地取出许多伏藏的宝物和佛像。
中:法王在净观中见到文殊师利菩萨。
上:法王见到菩萨天尊的寂静与忿怒相。
3 Early Hearing, Contemlating and Meditating on Buddha’s Dharma 早年闻思修
Middle: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok received teaching from Khenpo Dorzong.
Top: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok saw Manjusri in pure vision when he was 14, and then he wrote The Praise of the Inner, Outer and Secret Wisdom Sword of Manjusri.
Middle left:H.H. made great efforts on learning, contemplating, and meditating on Buddha’s Dharma.
Bottom left: When H.H. was fourteen years old, he went to study with Khenpo Soname Ringchen from Drakdzong under whom he took monastic ordination and received the monastic name of Thubten Lekshe Zngpo.
Bottom right: At the age of fifteen, Ju Mipham Rinpoche began appearing to him in pure visions. Sometime later, he received the name Ngawang Lordo Tsungme while receiving empowerment.
主图:法王在扎宗堪布前听取窍诀。
上: 十四岁时,法王在净观中见到文殊菩萨后,撰写了《文殊智慧宝剑内外密赞》。
左中:法王非常努力地闻思修佛法。
左下:十四岁时,法王在扎宗堪布索南仁亲前剃发出家受沙弥戒,法名图丹拉切赞布。
右下:十五岁的法王在净观中见到麦彭仁波切的智慧身,并在之后的灌顶中获得法名阿旺罗珠托美。
4 Teaching and Debating on Buddhism Philosophy 讲法与辩经
Main:In 1950 when he was eighteen years old, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok went to Changma Gar in Dzato to receive further training under Tuben Chomple also known as Tubga Rinpoche. There he received extensive instructions and transmission empowerment.
Bottom left: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok had taken full monastic ordination at the age of twenty-two from Thubga Rinpoche.
Bottom right: H.H. was debating on Buddhism philosophy among the monks.
Lower middle right: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok explained exoteric and tantric scriptures to his disciples.
Upper middle right: H.H. saw Sakya Pandita. in his pure vision.
Upper right: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok and Thubga Rinpoche were touching foreheads with each other when they parted.
Top: The great Guru Padmasambhava.
主图:十八岁时,法王前往石渠江玛佛学院,依止根本上师托嘎如意宝,并全面地听闻教法。
左下:托嘎如意宝授予法王比丘戒。
右下:法王与僧众辩经。
右中(下):法王给众弟子讲解显密教法。
右中(上):法王在净观中见到萨迦班智达。
右上:法王和托嘎如意宝在分别时碰头。
上:印度式莲花生大师。
5 Turned the Wheels of Dharma 转法轮
Main:H.H. Jigme Phuntsok taught Lognchenpa’s Seven Treasuries at Dhokam Sangy Dzong.
Bottom left: Revealing holy water at Nubzur monastery.
Bottom right: When Dakini in human form came to Nubzur and said to H.H. “we are intimately connected by Guru Rinpoche’s blessings and prayers and thus I am karmically destined to be your consort that’s why I have come here”, H.H. decided to decline. Instead, he chose to fulfill his role of pure monastic lineage holder as a bhikshu according to Vinaya tradition.
Top right: When H.H. began to write revealed treasures of astronomical works, words appeared as auspicious signs rainbows in the sky.
Top: Great Master Ju Mipham Rinpoche.
主图:法王在朵康森各样宗讲解《七宝藏》。
左下:在洛若寺取水宝藏。
右下:法王拒纳空行母而决定终身作为比丘。
右上:当法王在书写伏藏天文学著作时,文字在空中显像为殊胜相状的彩虹。
上:麦彭仁波切。
6 Practised with Calm and Peace 清静修持
Main:During the difficult time, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok took the remote mountains of Serta to retreat and taught to a small group of disciples.
Top:At Molam Laka, King Gesar appeared along with his retinues and attendants in pure vision.
Bottom:H.H. Jigme Phuntsok continued to give transmission, empowerment, and different teachings to fortunate disciples during the most difficult time.
主图:法王在则达玛呢山上清净修持。
上:格萨尔王及眷属现身于法王的净观中。
下:法王向有缘弟子传授教法。
7 Repropagation of the Buddhist Dharma 佛法再弘
Main:H.H. Jigme Phuntsok was sitting on the throne.
Bottom left: H.H. established Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in the valley on the 10th of Monkey month of the year of the Iron Monkey. The Great Dudjom Lingpa had blessed this place, and thirteen yogis had in the past attained a rainbow body.
Bottom right: H.H.’s black goat pet reborn in the buddha-land after death. On the 2nd of June in the year of the Earth Snake, he came back in human form to see H.H..
Middle right: H.H. received The Secret Essence Tantra Guhyagarbh empowerment from Longchenpa and Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal.
Top right: H.H. saw Maitreya Bodhisattva at Shambala in pure vision.
Top left: H.H. went to the Mountain of Glory and attended the Tosk offering.
主图:法王如意宝坐于法座上。
左下:藏历铁猴年猴月的10日,法王在圣地喇荣山谷建造了喇荣五明佛学院。一世敦珠法王曾在此圣地建立密宗道场,十三位弟子最终在此获得虹身成就。
右下:法王的黑山羊宠物去世后往生天界,土蛇年6月2日现身人相回来见法王。
右中:全知无垢光尊者与益西措嘉佛母赐予法王《大幻化网》的甚深灌顶。
右上:法王在嘎登刹土见到如来。
左上:法王去莲师刹土参加荟供。
8 Purified Buddhism 整顿佛教
Main: In the year of the Wooded Ox, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok purified Buddhism following the exotoric and tantric Dharma regulations.
Lower left: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok encouraged disciples to eat vegetarian food.
Lower right: Liberating living beings in Tibet and the mainland China.
Upper right: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok met Tsongkhapa in pure vision in the year of the Fire Tiger.
主图:在藏历木牛年,法王如意宝依据显密法规整顿佛教。
左下:法王教导弟子们食素。
右下:在藏地和内地放生。
右上:藏历火虎年宗喀巴大师现身于法王的净观之中。
9 Visited Five Peak Mountains 拜访五台山
Main:H.H. Jigme Phuntsok met with the 10th Panchen Lama who encouraged and reassured him that he was sterring the right course on purifying Buddhism in Tibet. They made aspirations in front of the Buddha Tooth Relic Stupa.
Upper left:In 1987, the year of the Fire Rabbit, H.H. went to Five Peak Mountains in China accompanied by ten thousands of disciples.
Middle left: In the eastern Mount Wutai’s cave, H.H. revealed and wrote down the treasure text Peaceful Manjushri along with the associated commentary known as Placing Buddhahood Within Reach.
Upper right: Manjusri appeared in the Manjusri Cave in pure vision.
主图:在佛牙舍利塔前,法王和第十世班禅大师共同发愿。班禅大师非常鼓励和支持法王在西藏整顿佛教。
左上:藏历火兔年,法王带领一万多弟子前往五台山。
左中:法王在五台山东台的文殊洞内写下了伏藏《文殊寂静修法仪轨》。
右上:文殊菩萨在文殊洞里现身。
10 Visited Lhasa 前往拉萨
Main:When H.H. Jigme Phuntsok was sitting on the throne, Zongdemba and the reincarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal offered religious instruments to him.
Upper left: H.H. revealed a terma.
Bottom left: Azitrol led devotees to greet H.H. Jigme Phuntsok when he visited Zhugong Temple.
Bottom right: When H.H. Jigme Phuntsok raised Bodhicitta in front of the sacred Jowo Rinpoche statue at the Jokhang in Lhasa, he experienced a pure vision in which the statue smiled and spoke of his next rebirth in the pure land.
Middle right: A precious canopy had been installed on the top of Samya Monastery.
Upper right: When H.H. Jigme Phuntsok retreated inside the Samya Cave, he appeared in the wrathful form of Padmasambhava.
主图:法王坐在法座上时,宗登巴和益西措嘉空行母的化身向法王供奉钵等法器。
左上:法王取伏藏。
左下:拜访朱贡寺时,阿西曲卓带领信众迎接法王。
右下:当法王在大昭寺释迦牟尼佛(觉沃佛)前发菩提心时,释迦佛露出了笑容并预示他的下一世将往生净土。
右中:法王在桑耶寺顶上装饰了宝伞盖。
右上:在桑耶山洞闭关时,法王显现了莲师忿怒像。
11 Rebirth into the Pure Land of Dewachen 往生极乐世界
Main:Sukhavati pujas were held for tens of thousands of devotees around the Kham region in Tibet.
Upper right: To revitalize Buddha Dharma, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok held Dharanis pujas with the participation of tens of thousands of people.
Top: On the top of the back hill of the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok transmitted Vajra instructions to fortunate disciples.
主图:藏地朵康各地举办了极乐法会,成千上万的信众参与其中。
右上:为了振兴佛法事业而举办万人持明法会。
上:在学院的后山顶上,法王为有缘弟子传授金刚秘诀。
12 Spread Buddha’s Dharma around the World 环游世界弘法
Main:H.H. Jigme Phuntsok turned the wheels of Dharma in Western countries, mainly the United States.
Middle Left:In the Year of the Iron Horse, H.H. went to India to meet with the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso.
Middle Right: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok taught Dharma in a Tibetan Buddhist temple in India.
Top left: H.H. gave teachings to the King and the Princess of Bhutan.
Top right: H.H. turned the wheels of Dharma at the shrines of Padmasambhva in Nepal.
主图:法王在以美国为主的西方国家转法轮。
左中:藏历铁马年,法王前往印度与达赖喇嘛丹增嘉措会面。
右中:法王在印度的藏传佛教寺庙讲法。
左上:法王给不丹国王和王妃传授佛法。
右上:法王在尼泊尔莲师圣地转法轮。
13 Spread Buddha's Dharma around the Chushi Gangdruk in Tibet 前往藏地四水六岗地区
Main: Eminent monks from various sectarians worshipped H.H. Jigme Phuntsok and the devotees in Kham made offerings to him with songs and dances.
Top Left: H.H. revealed Vajrasattva Purification Practice-Wish-Fulfilling Gem from the Yize Lake in Nian Bu.
Bottom left: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok identified the birthplace of King Gesar at Dege.
Top right: H.H. built King Gesar Palace at Golog.
主图:各教派的高僧大德们恭敬法王如意宝,藏地康区的信众们以歌舞供奉法王。
左上:法王在年布意则湖取藏了金刚萨垛修法仪轨。
左下:法王在德格认定格萨尔王的出生地。
右上:法王在果洛修建了格萨尔王宫殿。
14 Powerful and Wrathful Activities 忿怒威猛事业
Main:H.H. Jigme Phuntsok subdued the mara.
Bottom left: Tenzin Yuet Obumi subdued the mara.
Bottom right: Mahakala.
Upper left:Five major Dharma protectors who vowed to protect and support Buddha Dharma were worshipped at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.
Top (left-right): Dorjé Phurba, Yamantaka and Hayagriva.
主图:法王降魔。
左下:丹增悦欧布美降魔。
右下:玛哈嘎拉。
左上:五明佛学院里供奉了五大护法,他们承诺护持佛法。
上(从左往右):普巴金刚、大威德金刚、马头明王。
15 Promoted Learning and Practicing Dharma 弘扬修学佛法
Main:H.H. Jigme Phuntsok transmitted exotoric and tantric Dharma to numerous disciples in the Main Assembly Hall at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.
Upper right: H.H. Jigme Phuntsok issued certificates to graduated monks at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.
主图:法王在万人大经堂里给众多弟子传授显密教法。
右上:法王给学院的毕业僧人们颁发证书。
16 Parinirvana 圆寂
Middle Right:At Larung, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok told the gathering that he would pass away in the near future. He said ‘after I left this body, do not look for my reincarnation but spend your time practicing what I have taught you.’ H.H.’s final advice to his disciples was ‘Do not lose your own path, do not disturb the minds of others.’
Top Right:On the 15th of December in the Tibetan Water Sheep Year, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok passed away.
Top Left:H.H. had vowed to bless and protect the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy and his followers at all times.
右中:在喇荣居士林, 法王告知众多弟子和信众们,不久的将来他将圆寂。他告诫弟子不要去寻找他的转世,而要将时间用于修习他给予的教法上。法王给弟子最后的教言为:“莫舍己道,勿扰他心。”
右上:藏历水羊年12月15日,法王圆寂。
左上:法王发过誓,他会时时刻刻地护佑和加持着五明佛学院和信众们。
17 The lineage of Dzogchen Gurus of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok 法王如意宝的大圆满传承上师
see below
Samantabhadra
Dorje chang Mañjuśrīmitra Vajrasattva
Manjushir Garab Dorje Avalokiteshvara Padmasambhava
Longchen Rabjam Buddha Shakyamuni Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa
Śrī Siṃha Vairotsana Jigme choegyal Wangbo Jhanasutra
imalamitra Ju Mipham Jigme Gyalwe Nyugu Patrul Rinpoche
VajraKilaya H.H. Jigme Phuntsok Kurukulla
King Gesar Dan Sras Yuodbume
Za Rāhul Ekajaṭā Vajrasādhu Tsiu Marpo
普贤王如来
金刚总持 观世音菩萨 金刚萨埵
文殊菩萨 噶绕多杰 文殊友 莲花生大士
龙钦巴尊者 释迦摩尼佛 吉美林巴
西日桑哈 白若杂纳 华智仁波切 加纳思扎
无垢友 麦彭仁波切 吉美嘉威紐固 巴楚仁波切
普巴金刚 法王如意宝 作明佛母
格萨尔王 丹哲悦欧布美
日呵拉 一髻佛母 单坚护法 泽额玛布