Contents: Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and
Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche
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List of illustrations
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xv
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Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai
Lama
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xvii
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Foreword by Alak
Zenkar Rinpoche
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xix
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Foreword by Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche
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xxi
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Preface
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xxiii
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Introduction
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xxxv
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Beginnings
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1
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The
Palge lineage
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2
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Infant Patrul
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4
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Patrul's root guru
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4
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Little monk
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6
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Patrul takes on a powerful adversary
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8
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The Palge Tulku goes his own way
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8
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Patrul the scholar
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11
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Do Khyentse takes
patrul by surprise
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12
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A piece of advice
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14
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Patrul tries to
offer prostrations
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15
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Patrul's teacher
demonstrates clairvoyance
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15
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Patrul lectures
himself on his practice
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16
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Patrul receives a
special transmission
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16
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The boulder reminder
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17
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Patrul and the
paramita of patience
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17
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Drive them off with
stones
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18
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Patrul and the
prescient monk
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24
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Flowers magically
appear
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24
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A robber sets his
sights on an offering of silver
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25
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Patrul on having
things
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26
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Patrul practices in
a haunted charnel ground
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27
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A meeting of two
minds
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27
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"You've ruined it"
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27
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Patrul's gift of
tea
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28
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The haunted fortress
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29
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Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu
and the harmful spirit
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30
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Patrul and the
three Dargye monks
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30
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Patrul mentions his
past lives
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31
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Lungtok meets his
root master
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31
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An insight into
Patrul's mind
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33
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The crucial points
of practice
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33
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Patrul's offering
to the horseflies
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36
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Patrul finds his
limit
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37
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Developing empathy,
understanding emptiness
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37
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Lungtok's dream
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38
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Patrul introduces
lungtok to the nature of mind
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39
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Lungtok learns
backward
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40
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Lungtok practices
in the glacier wilderness
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41
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The great master
Patrul
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42
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A monk makes a full
confession
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43
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Patrul waits in
line to receive a blessing
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44
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Patrul paints some
tormas
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45
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Patrul passes
Dargye monastery again
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47
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Patrul and the widow
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48
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Patrul teachings
inspire all beings
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50
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Patrul acts as a
servant
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50
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Patrul takes tea
with a little girl
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52
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Patrul and the
tossed louse
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52
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Just sitting on his
bed
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53
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A tulku has a
change of name
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54
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Patrul tries to
meet shabkar
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54
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The land of the
insect-eaters
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55
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Patrul meets an
exemplary monk
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56
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Patrul's dedication
to practice
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57
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Patrul pacifies a
blood feud
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58
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Patrul practices in
the Ari Forest Wilderness
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60
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Patrul and the
venue of vultures
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62
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Patrul practices
tummo in a blizzard
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62
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Lungtok's mother
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63
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Patrul gives
teachings in the forest
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64
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etc...
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