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Gendun
Gyatso Palzangpo
(1475-1541, Tibet)
Biography Excerpt:
The child is said to have been born with
exceedingly clear eyes and to have greeted everyone present. Also at birth,
legend has it, the infant turned his radiant countenance towards the monastery
of his predecessor, placed his palms together, and recited the sacred mantra
of the mother of all Buddhas. As a toddler, he showed little interest in
games or other typical childhood pastimes, preferring instead to sit on
rocks and give imaginative blessings to the multitudes before him.
According to Tibetan tradition, the
young boy was ordained as a monk and was given the name Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo,
which means “Sublimely Glorious Ocean of Spiritual Aspirants.” At the age
of thirteen, he was at his mother’s bedside when passed on to the
next world and at sixteen, during meditation retreat, he precipitously
remembered many hundreds of his previous reincarnations.
Enlightenment Story Excerpt:
Ah-oh-lah, The Wise They Sing
The ultimate nature of spiritual realization
Is final union of light and the void.
Ah-oh-la, the wise they sing: ya-yi ya-yi,
It is the union of light and the void.
Ah-oh-la, the wise they sing:
The final taste of all that exists
Is voidness empty of sell-nature.
Ah-oh-la, the wise they sing: ya-yi ya-yi,
Yet all things in the world and beyond,
Sketches drawn by the conceptual mind,
Still retain a conventional impact.
Ah-oh-la, the wise they sing: ya-yi ya-yi,
This profound nature free from extremes
Is the vision to be accomplished....