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of monasteries, from inattention and idleness, and all anxieties of life, he 
could concentrate his attention on meditation and study. By his great 
erudition, application, and reflection he composed many elegant aphorisms 
and S'astras. His tutelary deities granted him several interviews. Having 
obtained boundless Abhijnana he could find out supernatural secrets. At 
the age of sixty-six, in the year 1505 A. D., he quietly passed away from 
this world of pain and sorrow. 
X. 
Gyal-wa Ton-Dub. 
This great scholar was born in the year 1505 A. D. at Lha-khu-phu- 
pen-sa situated on the north hank of the great river Tsanpo, near the 
famous monastery of Chamalin, in the district of Da-gya in west Tsan. 
His father Sonam Dorje, and mother Jomkyi belonged to the family in 
which some of his illustrious predecessors were born. No sooner was the 
child horn than it manifested its compassion for the misery of all unborn 
and migrating living beings, by uttering the six mystic syllables “ Om-ma- 
ni-paclme-hum,” at which uncommon occurrence the inmates of the house, 
with wonder thinking that the infant must be some saint or divine per¬ 
sonage, gave it the name Gonpo-kyab. From his childhood, Gonpo-kyab 
had been fond of solitude. He is said to have seen the faces of Buddha 
and Tson khapa, from whose hands he received benediction. When only 
eight years old, he saw in a vision, that, dressed in a white satin tunic and 
adorned with precious gems, he sat with a bell and a dorje in his hand on 
the disc of the full moon which rose refulgent from the top of the Segri 
mountain, and that the sound of the ringing of the bell filled the world. 
At the age of eleven he became a pupil of Je Tag-pa Ton-dub, abbot of 
Lha-tse monastery, from whom he received the vows of priesthood and 
the religious name of Lo-ssan Ton-dub. He also heard sermons on 
Kalachakra, Bhairava, and the Bodhisattva Marga. He received instruc¬ 
tions in the S'utras, Mantras and the system of mysticism called Guhya- 
samaja. Thereafter coming to Tasi-lhunpo he became a pupil of the 
abbot Lo-ssan she-Nen in logic, hut soon becoming disgusted with his subtle 
hut trifling and useless system he gave up his connection with his teacher. 
At the age of seventeen he became a pupil of the sage Chhokyi Dorje and 
fully mastered the volume of precepts called Gahdan-Nen-gyud. After¬ 
wards returning to Tsan he resided at the temple of Pamachen near the 
Panam-Ohomolha-ri. 30 Here his teacher the sage shewed him the volume 
30 The Chomolhari mountain, from which the river Panam or Pena nyan chhu 
takes it rise and, flowing by Gyan-tse and Panamjon, empties itself in the Tsanpo near 
Shiga-tse. 
