Though Dodrupchen Rinpoché’s brief description of Zangdok Palri was composed as a scholarly writing, the text greatly resembles a pure vision. Please take the time to contemplate the profound beauty…

Once, in a vision, a blue ḍākinī appeared to Düdjom Lingpa and asked if he wanted to go to Zangdok Palri. As he acquiesced, she took him by the fingertips of his right hand and led him to the top of a high mountain…

Do Khyentsé once remained in a death-like experience for over two weeks, during which he traveled to many realms, before returning to life once again. During this time, he traveled to Chamara…

One morning before dawn, as Pema Lingpa was in a dream-like meditative state, three ḍākinīs came to him, leading a white horse. They invited the tertön to mount the horse and follow them to Zangdok Palri, and so they journeyed to the summit of a snow mountain…

At the age of sixteen, Khyentsé Wangpo went to the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain in a pure vision. There, he met with Guru Rinpoche, who was surrounded by a host of ḍākinīs. Guru Rinpoche introduced him to the three kāyas, and prophesied that he would become the holder of the seven transmissions: the unbroken oral lineage from the scriptures, profound actual treasures, mind treasures, rediscovered treasures, recollected treasures, pure visions, and whispered lineages.

Every Guru Rinpoche day for the last 12 years or so, Phakchok Rinpoche has been sending out letters to remind his students to be mindful, and to bring them back on the path.

This whole year, Rinpoche will cover the visionary journeys of great practitioners to Copper-Colored Mountain, and Nekhor will be sharing them every Guru Rinpoche day. This first month’s letter is on Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa’s visionary journey to this pure realm.