Chogye Trichen Rinpoche completed his spiritual practice of tukdam, the meditation state where the master's outer breathing has ceased but the "inner breath" or subtle life force remains within the body until the tukdam is complete. H.E. Luding Khenchen Rinpoche and Khenpo Appey Rinpoche examined the body of Chogye Trichen Rinpoche throughout the morning of Feb. 6, and reported all their findings to H.H. Sakya Trizin Rinpoche by telephone.
Chogye Rinpoche's spiritual practice finished mid-morning, so Rinpoche remained fifteen days in the state of tukdam. During this time, Rinpoche showed no signs of decay or any physical change in his body, appearing to be resting in meditation. Even by the evening of Feb. 6, there was very little noticeable change in Rinpoche's appearance. There was no scent of decay in the room, nor any appearance of fluids leaving Rinpoche's body. The high lamas commented that upon close examination during the hours of Tuesday morning, there was some subtle but noticeable change in Rinpoche's complexion and skin tone, that his fingers had become smaller, and that there was no longer any warmth concentrated around Rinpoche's heart region, as there had been up to that point.
His vast blessings will be upon anyone who approached Him from near or far. His love and smile and open-hearted generosity will shine upon us all forever.
Our prayers will be a lotus cushion of light for Him to rise and extend into pureness, and will make His rainbow sprinkle on us all. Our flags will fly in the sky where He will remain still warmly ready to wrap us in His love.
All Vajrayogini practitioners' hearts will blaze in red love to praise Him and thank Him for all his crystal and primordial Compassion.
All Vajrayana practitioners will join across the world to chant for Him glorious songs of pure devotion.
We shall keep Him deeply inside our Body, Speech and Mind and show Him how we can still benefit from His precious, loving and joyous diamond teachings.
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Chogye Trichen Rinpoche completed his spiritual practice of tukdam, the meditation state where the master's outer breathing has ceased but the "inner breath" or subtle life force remains within the body until the tukdam is complete. H.E. Luding Khenchen Rinpoche and Khenpo Appey Rinpoche examined the body of Chogye Trichen Rinpoche throughout the morning of Feb. 6, and reported all their findings to H.H. Sakya Trizin Rinpoche by telephone. 