November 11, 2024 is the birth anniversary of the leader of the Yungdrung Bön religious tradition, the Lord of Refuge and 34th Holder of the Golden Throne of Menri Monastery, the supreme Lungtok Dawa Dargyal Rinpoche. He was born in the Domé region of Tibet and was given the birth name of Norbu Sampel. His family were members of the Pel Shenten Gamel Yungdrung Dargyal Ling community. At the age of five he began school and at the age of eight he began to learn the foundational teachings of Yungdrung Bön. At the age of eleven he entered Gamel Monastery and received the name Zöpa Tsöndrü and received genyen vows. Upon reaching the age of seventeen, he received novice monk vows and was given the name Tsultrim Nyima. One year later, he entered the Gamel Dialectic College.
In 1994, the 33rd throne holder of Menri Monastery, the lord of refuge Lungtok Tenpé Nyima Rinpoche returned to Tibet for the first time since his exile. During his visit to Gamel, he bestowed the complete 250 renunciate vows upon the future 34th throne holder and received from him the name, Dawa Dargyal Wangpo.
Although he had completed his geshe degree in 1996, he traveled to India the following year and began his studies in the Menri dialectic college. In 2012 at the age of 39, he received his Menri Geshe degree in the presence of H.H. 33rd Menri Trizin Rinpoche. He fulfilled many roles within Menri Monastery after his graduation such as serving as treasurer and general secretary. On September 14, 2017 the 33rd Menri Trizin Rinpoche showed the truth of impermanence and passed beyond his physical body. Acting as the general secretary, it was the responsibility of Geshe Dawa Dargyal to organize the memorial and cremation rituals.
Following many days of traditional prayers and rituals, on the morning of January 1, 2018 Geshe Dawa Dargyal was selected as the 34th Menri throne holder. His enthronement ceremony took place on February 20, 2018, the 5th lunar day of the first Tibetan which coincided with the birth anniversary of the second buddha and the one who established Menri Monastery, Nyammé Sherab Gyaltsen.
ཁྲི་འཛིན་སོ་བཞི་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་གསོལ་འདེབས།
Supplication of the Great 34th Throne-holder
ཨེ་མ་ཧོ།
How wonderful!
གྱེར་བསྟན་རིན་ཆེན་མཚན་ཡང་ལྡོག་པའི་ཞིང་།།
In a land isolated from even the name of the precious Bön teachings,
ལུང་རྟོགས་པད་མའི་དགའ་ཚལ་བཞད་པའི་མགོན།།The oral transmissions and realizations blossomed in the master’s pleasure garden of lotuses.
འཕྲིན་ལས་རྟ་བདུན་སྣང་བ་གཤེགས་པའི་རྗེས།།Following the enlightened activities of the departed Sun who had appeared,
ཆ་རྫོགས་ཟླ་བའི་མགོན་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།།I supplicate to the master who is a completely full Moon in every way!
མཆོག་གསུམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲིབ་བྲལ་སྤྱན་ལྡན་གྱིས།།
By having the eye of immaculate wisdom of the three jewels,
རྒྱལ་བའི་འཕྲིན་ལས་སྐྱོང་བའི་མགོན་བསྐོས་པ།།You were appointed the Lord who protects the enlightened activities of the buddhas.
གང་འདིའི་གསང་གསུམ་བཞེད་དོན་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་པའི།།Spontaneously accomplishing any wish of the three secret places,
Supplication prayer written by H.E. Yondzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, translated from the Tibetan by Raven Cypress Wood
ཐུགས་མཆོག་གཡེལ་མེད་དམ་པར་མཛད་དུ་གསོལ།།
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