Table of Contents
Preface ix
Part 1 Training
1 Kham 3
2 Birth, Youth, and Early Education: 1813-1819 9
3 Zhechen: 1819-1833 21
4 Pelpung: 1833-1834 39
5 Early Kagyu Foundations, Part One: Teachings at Karma Gon: 1834 49
6 Early Kagyu Foundations, Part Two: Early Retreats, Dreams, and Visions: 1835-1837 57
7 The Fourteenth Karmapa: 1836-1839 69
8 Dreams of the Masters: 1839-1841 77
9 Khyentse Wangpo and the Deaths of Wongen and the Old Chieftain: 1840-1842 87
10 Age Thirty: 1841 97
11 Kongtrul's Retreat at Dechen Wosel Ling: 1842-1846 105
Part 2 Collaborations
11 Gyarong and Kuntrul: 1846-1848 119
13 The Language of Love and Power: Khyentse, Dabzang, and the King of Derge: 1848-1853 129
14 Past Lives Revealed, the Death of Situ, and the Origin of the Treasury of Kagyu Tantra: 1853-1855 141
15 Chokgyur Lingpa: 1853-1855 153
16 The Birth of the Treasury of Revelations, the Discovery of Dzongsho Deshek Dupai Podrang Hermitage, and the First Opening of Tsadra Rinchen Drak: 1855-1857 165
17 Tibet: 1857-1859 183
18 Government Service, the Continued Opening of Tsadra, and the Tenth Situ's Enthronement: 1858-1860 197
19 The First Three-Year Retreat at Tsadra, Rimay Part One: 1860-1862 209
20 The Treasury of Knowledge, Rimay Part Two: 1861 221
21 The Nyarong War: 1862-1866 229
22 Aftermath of the War, Part One: Make Love Not War: 1866-1868 243
23 Aftermath of the War, Part Two: Kongtrul's Kham Gazetteer, the Death of Chokgyur Lingpa, and the Treasury of Instructions; Rimay Part Three: 1867-1871 257
24 The 1870s: Revelations, Tsadra's Pilgrimage Year, and Expulsion from Pelpung, 1871-1878 275
25 Eleven Years of Exile: Ronggyab, Retreat, the Seven-Line Guru Sadhana, and Drubchen across Derge: 1874-1886 297
Part 3 Deaths
26 Transmission, Old Age, and the Death of Khyentse Wangpo: Rimay Part Four: 1886-1897 323
27 The Death of Kongtrul: Rimay Part Five 341
Timeline 353
Maps 357
Tibetan Orthographic Equivalents 365
Notes 417
List of Works Cited 453
Bibliography 463
Index 475
