At the end of his annual Easter retreat in Haileybury, UK,
Sogyal Rinpoche gave the empowerment of Tendrel Nyesel.The empowerment was
video-streamed live to Rigpa centres around the world so that, in
addition to those attending the retreat at Haileybury, 1,500 of
Sogyal Rinpoche's students were able to receive the empowerment in
Lerab Ling and in their local centres.
Lerab Lingpa offered the empowerments and transmission of Tendrel Nyesel to
the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, who
composed a liturgy and prayer to the Tendrel Nyesel protectors.
Another great master on whom Lerab Lingpa bestowed the complete
transmission of Tendrel Nyesel was Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. He in turn
conferred it on Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, insisting that he
continue the lineage of Tendrel Nyesel.
In time, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche offered the empowerment and transmission to His Holiness the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and, while teaching in various western
countries, fulfilled His Holiness’s request that he compose a text
with ritual instructions for granting the empowerments of Tendrel
Nyesel. At the end of the empowerment text, he praises the Tendrel Nyesel:
“This profound teaching, so pertinent in this age, is like a secret
treasure of advice never known before, one that is easy to practise
and simple to apply,” and recalls Jamyang Khyentse’s encouragement
to maintain the lineage of Tendrel Nyesel. He writes:
"In keeping with his words, I offered these nectar clouds that
mature and liberate—with the intention of bringing benefit and
happiness to the teaching and beings of Tibet, the ‘Land of
Snow-capped Mountains’—to Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso, the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama, who is praised in the vajra prophecies of
the omniscient Guru of Orgyen as a holder of this very teaching. In
turn, he gave me a command which I kept as one would wear a
precious diadem on the crown of one’s head, and I composed this
clear arrangement with the pure intention to continue the tradition
of transmission, empowerment and explanation."
The Tendrel Nyesel, which invokes the wisdom, compassion and
power of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas, Guru Rinpoche and the
mandalas of all the tantric deities, is famed as a practice
dedicated specifically to averting the inauspiciousness of the
times. With world events hanging in the balance, including the
future predicament of Tibet, the empowerment of this powerful
practice at this point is considered by many lamas to be
particularly timely and extremely significant. There is an
all-encompassing, universal quality to the Tendrel Nyesel, both in
the number of buddhas and deities whose blessing is invoked, and in its reach and effect
throughout the universe in eliminating, preventing, protecting
against and transforming harm and conflict. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche describes it:
“Using the power of skilful means and practical instructions, it is
possible to heal all such harm, to prevent it from arising, to
guard against it, and to increase positive circumstances. This
wonderful practice of the undeceiving and unsurpassed secret mantra is extremely powerful and effective,
and combines visualization of deities, mantra, realization of the view and samadhi. What is more, it is straightforward and
easy to practise, and the signs of its blessing have not
diminished.
“So this practice of Tendrel Nyesel is really just like a
wish-fulfilling jewel, an instruction that brings benefit and
happiness to fortunate beings, given to us by the second Buddha,
the Great Master Padmasambhava. Imparted to the secret consort
Yeshe Tsogyal and the master Nanam Dorje Dudjom, it was concealed as a precious
earth terma, and later revealed and spread by the great tertön Lerab Lingpa as a gift that would bring
benefit and happiness to Tibet, the Land of Snows.”
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