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While the great adept [Tangtong Gyalpo] did not stray from vajralike meditative concentration on the peak of glorious Riwoche, the ornamental wheel of his inexhaustible enlightened body, speech, and mind manifested in three great regions of Kham.

At Gyalmorong, a person who had received the Path with the Result at Sakya, and who meditated single-mindedly on the Time of the Path during four sessions and on the Profound Path Guruyoga, saw the great adept to be Vajradhara, the lord of all spiritual families, and made countless prostrations.

…A person who recited a thousand of the heart-mantra of Tara every day, declared, “This isn’t Avalokiteshvara. It’s Tara.”

Also, a person said, “This is the Great Adept of Iron Bridges. O great adept, why do different visual manifestations appear to us?” The great adept replied:

By bringing the vital winds
and mind under control,
taking control of how things appear to myself,
overwhelming how things appear to others,
and positioning magical bodies,
I display whatever will tame sentient beings
according to their various inclinations.
(p.410)

–from King of the Empty Plain: The Tibetan Iron Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo by Cyrus Stearns, a Tsadra Foundation Series book, published by Snow Lion Publications

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