The Sangha in Kopan Monastery are still pretty busy, collecting and
checking meticulously each of the holy relics that have emanated after
Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup's cremation. Indeed, the relics are
simply too many and they are reportedly still growing by the day.
Here is a closer look at the amazing holy relics found after Lama
Lhundrup's cremation. I am dumbfounded, totally amazed by the beautiful
sheer sight of these relics as they are
revealed..... And these are just some of them, more will be revealed
soon. Om ah hum benza guru padma siddhi hung!
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Heaviest 2 pieces of greenish-gold relics |
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Green turquoise relic |
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Big coral-like relic from Lama Lhundrup's head |
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Dark green relic with little round relics emanating |
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Crystal-like relics still growing |
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Turquoise relic |
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The second-biggest piece of relic |
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Many round jade coloured relics growing from these 2 pieces of relics! |
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Silver metallic relic |
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Lama
Lhundrup's eye relic was the biggest, with green relics growing out in
the middle and many more tiny red relics multiplying on the top. |
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Lama Lhundrup's tooth relic, left unburnt |
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Multicolored relics |
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Greenish relic |
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Multicolored relics |
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White relics |
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Several white relics still covered in ashes |
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Lama Lhundrup's jaw with many brown relics emanating |
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Growing jade-like relics |
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Lama Lhundrup's hair still intact even though his stupa was burning for a week |
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Bone relic with several white relics growing |
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Ongoing analysis of relics collected and still retrieving more from cremation stupa |
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The area beneath the cremation stupa where high lamas leave footprint, signs of his next rebirth |
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Lama Lhundrup left a small footprint facing West, meaning he will take rebirth west of Nepal |
Lama Zopa Rinpoche said that Lama Lhundrup did not manifest any of the 5
elements absorption of the death process before his passing and Lama
Lhundrup's last words to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, his guru, were "I do not
exist", uttered in English repeatedly 3 times. Lama Zopa Rinpoche said this was a
sign of a very accomplished practitioner. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given
instructions to build a Mahabodhi Stupa and a
Statue of Lama Lhundrup as soon as possible for his unmistaken swift
reincarnation to return which will definitely happen very soon.
I know a dharma friend of mine is devastated by the leaving of the
physical body of Lama Lhundrup, who was her heart guru. She once shared
with me about Lama Lhundrup, who was also her refuge guru too. She said
she was chatting with Lama Lhundrup, and she kept telling him,
"Rinpoche, you are my guru" as she was very close to him. However, each
time, Lama Lhundrup would reply, "No, I am not your guru. Your guru is
Lama Zopa Rinpoche." Although she was a little saddened by her guru's
words, but she realised Lama Lhundrup's deep devotion to his guru, Lama
Zopa Rinpoche, and she knows Lama Lhundrup said those words to her in
order to teach her about guru devotion.
We do not weep
because of the passing of a guru. Instead, we celebrate and rejoice at
his attainments by witnessing physically his relics, the signs of a
greatly realised practitioner. I know Lama Lhundrup would be coming
back very soon because many of his disciples and students would be
waiting for their guru to return to continue turning the Wheel of
Dharma. And that is what great Bodhisattvas do, always coming back,
taking rebirth again and again, in order to lead sentient beings away
from samsara and suffering.