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A Bouquet of Utpalas: Brief accounts of the lives of siddhas of Ga whom my guru actually met or whose stories he heard from trustworthy sources, set forth here as medicine to restore faithKhenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche strongly encouraged Lama Karma Drodhul to request Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche to tell the stories of accomplished tantric practitioners (siddhas) from Kham, Eastern Tibet.Most of the holy beings whose lives are recounted here began as ordinary people like us, and were not recognized emanations of buddhas or bodhisattvas. This book clearly demonstrates that we can, through diligence, achieve the same result.Beautifully recorded by Lama Karma Drodhul, these are stories of siddhas that Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche actually knew. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche once remarked that there is nothing like these accounts of Siddhas of Ga.
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Lama Karma Drodhul, born in 1974 in Eastern Tibet, became a monk of Thrangu Monastery at the age of thirteen and received full ordination at twenty. He came to the United States in 1997 and has been his uncle Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche's attendant ever since. He has completed two three-year retreats under Khenpo Rinpoche and now is co-retreat master at the Karme Ling Retreat Center in Delhi, New York. Lama Karma is known for his beautiful classic Tibetan.Yeshe Gyamtso is one of the premier translators of written and oral Tibetan Buddhist teachings. After completing two traditional three-year retreats under Lama Norlha, he has served as an interpreter for many eminent teachers, including His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa, Kalu Rinpoche and Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche.
