Yeshi Dorje was born June 24, 1966 in Nyagchu valley in Tibet. It is the eighth incarnation of Phakyab Rinpoche.
His testimony was collected by Sonia Stril-Rever, which is the biographer of the Dalai Lama and also teaches meditation and mantra yoga.
Phakyab Rinpoche will retrace the path of her life, alternating the narration of some moments of his childhood with those of adulthood, as a monk, abbot, and finally exiled prisoner.
He described some anecdotes and scenes of life of the inhabitants of his native region, Kham. We taste there vastness and purity of the majestic nature of the country of the snow, but also the harshness of life and hardiness.
Knowledge of the past is important because it helps to understand what has fed the child that it was his desire to sengager towards Buddha, his vow to give his life as an offering to all beings being a monk.
Various events lont then led, as so many others, to be arrested, imprisoned and tortured for three months by Chinese police. Then a providential escape allowed his exile in the United States. All this is told with great modesty, simplicity and above all in a tone devoid of anger, hatred and thirst for revenge.
What emerges from this testimony, this so touching biography is of love and universal compassion message.
Phakyab Rinpoche has faced, arriving on American soil, a significant deterioration in his health as a result of his arrest and badly treated emprisonnementune ankle dune gangrene reached, and bone tuberculosis quune which gradually destroys his spine without about the many destructive side effects lantibiothérapie under which he had to be placed.
Convinced of being cured by a medicine that is at the forefront of technology, Phakyab Rinpoche had to go to lévidence shortcomings of our medicine, which ultimately na quune material approach of the body and disease.
His spiritual training, based on the many teachings that he received during his monastic formation lont thus guided towards a total cure, after 3 years of intense yoga and meditation practice of internal energy.
By this testimony, it aims to raise awareness of the existence dune subtle energy, guided by the spirit and capable, after being stabilized and prepared to heal the physical body.
The reader obviously not sattende find in this book a healing protocol to follow. It would anyway incomprehensible to the uninitiated.
Finally, Phakyab Rinpoche explains that Buddhism is not the only way to recovery. This is for everyone, according to his sensitivity and level of consciousness, to find his spiritual path, following their religion and culture.
It should also be noted that Tibetan lamas do not say that we must refuse care of Western medicine, but simply to choose the most appropriate treatment according to each case. Healing practices they propose are designed to potentiate the effect of medical treatment.
