At this point I wonder if what you're doing here is trying to waste everybody's time? Dudjom Rinpoche himself could probably appear before you right now and say exactly what Malcolm said and I am sure you'd demand written proof with three official stamps and signatures from twelve witnesses, and even then you'd doubt it and claim it's not true because you never heard it from your teachers...michaelb wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:08 pmLOL. Nice try.Crazywisdom wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:07 pmChNN tells the story in his transmissions. Show me where it’s contradicted.
Then as for what Chogyal Namkhai Norbu taught, he was an excellent scholar and a totally realized terton, no question about it. What he said is enough for me. Maybe not for you. That's not my problem though, and to be honest, I don't really care what you think about this. I don't say that to be arrogant or to put you down (far from it), I say it because if you have a problem with his teachings, that is your problem, and not mine, and I am not interested in dealing with your issues about it. You'll have to figure that out for yourself.
I find it very easy to accept what he said when it came to his teachings. I am quite content with saying "It is his tradition" on the question of "What Vajrayana tradition?" at least for now considering I don't know any more than that (there may indeed be more to it, but I don't know, and it's not actually important to me). But then again, this to me is quite sufficient however. ChNN himself is sufficient. It doesn't need to go any further. He is all the support I need. But perhaps not for you. Which is fine. Do as you please.
I also cited pemachophel who mentioned he had also been told that the tigress in one tradition was the manifestation of a Bön protector but he wasn't sure from whom he had been told this - possibly Lama Dawa Chodak Rinpoche.
At any rate, you seem to have a lot of doubts regarding tertons and the terma tradition. I don't know. I just know what I have been taught by my guru - who like other tertons had his own cycle of teachings - and that's really all I need to know. I hope one day you'll find the confidence you need.