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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.

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

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.

2 Childhood

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.

3 Early Hearing, Contemlating and Meditating on Buddha’s Dharma

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.

4 Teaching and Debating on Buddhism Philosophy

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.

5 Turned the Wheels of Dharma

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.

6 Practised with Calm and Peace

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.

7 Repropagation of the Buddhist Dharma

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.

8 Purified Buddhism

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.

9 Visited Five Peak Mountains

Main ： H.H. Jigme Phuntsok met with the 10 th 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.

10 Visited Lhasa

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.

11 Rebirth into the Pure Land of Dewachen

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.

12 Spread Buddha’s Dharma around the World

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.

13 Spread Buddha's Dharma around the Chushi Gangdruk in Tibet

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.

14 Powerful and Wrathful Activities

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.

15 Promoted Learning and Practicing Dharma

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.

16 Parinirvana

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.

17 The lineage of Dzogchen Gurus of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok

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