Preface: A Journey to the West

The previous life of Lerab Linpa, the mantra adept Nanam Dorje Dudjom, captured the hearts of Orgyen Rinpoche and the King Trisong Detsen. Unlike any other disciple or minister, he served them with extreme loyalty and devotion. This became an interdependent cause for his future activities; in every one of his future reincarnate lives, all his activities of spreading the dharma and benefiting sentient beings became very vast.

--- Chojé taught in France, 1993

Chapter 1: The Initial Inspiration

This year coincides with the 30th anniversary of His Holiness’s visit, and the 20th anniversary of his parinirvana. Considering such a special occasion, Khenpo Sodargye, as a close disciple who accompanied Rinpoche on the trip, compiled His Holiness’s teachings, together with his own recollections, into this new book, A Journey to the West.

May whoever read it be connected with His Holiness, experience his extraordinary blessing, realize their own primordial wisdom and achieve the same state of realization as His Holiness.

"True wisdom is like the sun, shining on all without partiality."