In his endless kindness to Vajrayana practitioners, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche quotes from the gTermas of Chogyal Ratna Lingpa, Sangye Lingpa, Rig'dzin Go'dem, Duddul Dorje, gTerton Longsel, Thugchog Dorje, Drodul Lingpa, and Ma-gCig Labdron, in order to explain the non-ordinary visionary history which illuminates the deleterious nature of tobacco.
Warnings concerning tobacco have been revealed as Termas since the first spread of Buddhism in Tibet, and therefore authentic Nyingma practitioners cannot have association with tobacco.
Dudjom Rinpoche's treatise deals with demonic intentionality as discussed in the gTermas of the great Tertons, and is thus mainly influential with those Vajrayana practitioners who have confidence in Padmasambhava and the Terma tradition. It should, however, be of interest to other Buddhists - and to people in general - that such warnings have existed for so long and that they are so vehement.
Tobacco: 'the guide that leads the blind on a false path which ends in a precipice', Dudjom Rinpoche, Aro Books, Paperback, $8.00
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987) was the head of the Nyingma lineage during his lifetime. He was a treasure revealer, teacher, and poet; he also built monasteries, retreat centers, and stupas.
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