The Excellent Qualities and Noble Activities of His Holiness

His Holiness has also transmitted many other teachings he received from his Gurus. Due to his scholarship and to the eloquence of his discourses, his teachings always generate great reverence and inspire people from all walks of life, irrespective of race, culture, class, creed, nationality or language.

His Holiness has always worked untiringly for the preservation and propagation of the precious teachings of both Sutric and Tantric traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and has ensured the continuity of a new generation of well-trained teachers and practitioners by founding monasteries and institutes for the higher study of Buddhist philosophy.

Having received teachings from the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, he is able to bestow empowerments in all traditions and he gives teachings to high lamas of all traditions. In this way he enriches all schools and holds his place as a great non-sectarian Master, contributing to mutually enriching co-operation amongst the schools.

His Holiness has given teachings to many other high Lamas of the other schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He has frequently discussed with other high lamas ways and means of cooperating to uphold and promote the doctrine of the Buddha and to preserve and foster the language and culture of the Tibetan people.

His abiding concern has always been for the preservation and propagation of Lord Buddha's teachings and in particular those of the Sakyapa school. He is tireless in pursuing these goals. In spreading the Buddha Dharma, he is skilled in teaching each of his followers according to their individual mental disposition. Thus his teachings are not only broad-reaching but individually effective.

By scrupulously maintaining the five precepts, he has followed in the footsteps of all the great Sakyapa masters, pleasing his Gurus and all the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times. Possessing the genuine Bodhicitta or enlightenment thought, he helps and benefits all sentient beings. As a Vajrayana Master, he has attained high realization and great skill in means.

Through realizing the selflessness of self and phenomena, he teaches with profound depth. Embodying the relative and ultimate Bodhicitta, his view is as vast as the ocean as he bestows teachings upon endless numbers of disciples. His behavior exemplifies the method of conduct of the Bodhisattvas, a beacon lighting the way for all followers of the Buddha Dharma.

He is liberated from the extremes of samsara and nirvana. As all obscurations have been removed, he has attained all the qualities. Because of our manifold obscurations, we are unable to see the Lord Buddha with our own eyes and receive his teachings directly. But due to the kindness of the Guru, whom we can see in ordinary form, we are nevertheless able to receive through him the teachings and blessings of the Lord Buddha. His Holiness has come in human form to set an example for us, bound as we are by negative thoughts and actions. By exemplifying the kayas and wisdoms of the Buddhas, he spreads the vast teachings of the result.

Out of compassion and altruism, His Holiness has ensured the continuation of the Sakya Khön lineage for the sake of all sentient beings. To preserve the unbroken lineage teachings and the tradition of the Khön family, he has ensured that his two sons receive an extensive education in the Buddha Dharma.

His Holiness has encouraged the propagation of the holy Dharma throughout the world. He has established and supported Dharma centers, monasteries and other Dharma institutions in many parts of the world. In addition to having taught in Tibet and his extensive teaching schedules in India, he has given teachings in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States of America.

Under the patronage of His Holiness there are several hundred Sakya monasteries and Dharma centers in Tibet, India and the rest of the world. These serve to preserve and propagate the Buddha's teachings during this degenerate age.

He is always available to help karmically linked disciples to uphold the Buddha Dharma, encouraging them with material support, teachings and guidance. Also through his prayers and his all-pervasive benevolence, he extends blessings to all beings.

Most days, when his other Dharmic activities permit, he receives a stream of visitors and devotees. His other noble deeds, apart from his intense teaching schedule, include giving predictions, curing people with mental illnesses, paralysis, etc., undertaking rituals for deceased people, preparing texts for use in Dharma centers, consecrating places and objects, performing phowa and saying protection prayers, etc.

His Holiness also extends his infinite compassion and wisdom to fortunate disciples through his writings. To date he has published a detailed list of all the teachings he has received from various masters; an enumeration of the works of the Great Masters of the Sakyapa Order and a two volume autobiography along with a brief version of this. He has also written profoundly upon Birwapa's Guru Yoga Puja and many other ritual texts and composed numbers of dedication prayers, long life prayers and prayers for swift rebirth, as well as many short verses on other topics.

His Holiness Sakya Trizin upholds the Buddhist doctrines in their entirety and has propagated the Buddha Dharma throughout the world. He has been a constant source of wisdom and compassion for all beings. His Holiness resides at Sakya Dolma Phodrang, in Rajpur, Dehradun. UA. India.

May his holy body enjoy perfect health and immortality;
May his precious teachings illuminate the world forever;
May all disciples steadfastly keep their vows and practices;
May all sentient beings swiftly attain complete Buddhahood.

This short summary drew on His Holiness' own autobiography and on the English translation by Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen and Ane Kunga Choedron. The summary was prepared by Khönrig Ratna Vajra, Lama Jhampa Losal, Kunga Soedron and Dolma Lhamo.