Considered one of the most influential women in Tibetan history, personification of the great Tibetan women teachers, meditation master with more than 500 disciples; Jetsun Rinpoche when only six years old, began teaching with such insight and understanding that people were moved to tears. Radiating compassion and riding a large goat, she traveled through Tibet teaching, saving animals from slaughter with the money people gave her, and welcomed monks, nuns, laymen, women, and children. Beginning with her father who was extremely disappointed she wasn’t born a boy and later abandoned the family and continuing through her main teacher, Pema Gyatso; Jetsun Rinpoche successfully dealt with the patriarchy and sexism of her time and place.
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Tibetan Vajrayana Women of Wisdom
“If you want to realize immortality you must realize the deathless nature of your mind.”
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“Cut off the self-grasping consciousness and realize emptiness”
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“Hearing that there was a yogini, many gathered in crowds to stare at me. I examined myself and realized that I am just a follower of the great teachers who has received their blessings.”
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