Foreword
The Kyarog Gompa is situated north of Thangme in the Khumbu 1 Valley, a short walk uphill from the trail leading to Taroga, the Renjo or Riltso Pass, and the Nangpa La. Until the carly nineties the Kyarog Gompa was off bounds for trekkers and only a few Westerners where able to visit it. Even nowadays only a few trekkers take the short side walk to the gompa, but those who visit Kyarog do not fail to be extremely impressed with the beauty and sanctity of the place. According to the oral tradition, the temple was founded sometime in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, probably about one hundred years later than the nearby Thangme Gompa. Since the founder of Kyarog Gompa and the founder of Thangme Gompa happened to be known by the same name (Rolpe Dorje), early researchers have mistakenly attributed the founding of Kyarog Gompa to the same lama who founded Thangme Gompa in the seventeenth century. This, however, is vehemently denied by both the Kyarog and Thangme lamas. The Rolpe Dorje who founded Thangme Gompa was a brother of the well known Sherpa Lama Sangwa Dorje and had no connection whatsoever with the Kyarog Lamas. As we shall see, both the lineage of the Kyarog lamas and the founding of the temple are attributed to the intervention of divine or supernatural beings. How much truth there is in the traditional accounts we will never discover, but then there a great many events in history that we cannot easily explain in accordance with our rational, materialistic mind-frame. Therefore, since the events here described are affirmed to have taken place in real time and real place, there is no reason why we should dismiss them as 'untrue'. In fact, a certain dose of the miraculous, magic or divine is bound to bring a new dimension to our sometimes dull and uninteresting' lives. The present volume is the second in a planned series of short works on the different temples and hermitages of the Khumbu area. It contains the translation of a short Tibetan history of the gompa and the lineage lamas compiled by the present Kyarog Lama Ngawang Tsultrim on the basis of various short writings of his grandfather Lama Tenzin (1919-97), as well as a description of the temple and the religious activities that take place at Kyarog. The Tibetan text has also been published as a separate volume. wish to thank the head lama of Kyarog Gompa and his relatives for their help, the many Khumbu Sherpas who have contributed with their knowledge of local tradition, and my teacher the Lawudo Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche for his foreword. Finally, many thanks go to the editor, publisher, and printer, as well as to Jose Ramon Bacelar of Viajes Sanga for his generous contribution towards the publication of this book. We hope that this book will be another step towards the preservation of the arousing the interest of the young generation in their country's historical traditional culture and religion of the Khumbu Sherpas and will result in and religious background.
About The Author
Venerable Jamyang Wangmo (Helly Pelaez Bozzi) was born in Spain in 1945 and trained in law and art. Ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1973, she lives in Nepal. She is the author of The Lawudo Lama: Stories of Reincarnation from the Mount Everest Region (2005), Dancing in the Clouds: The Mani Rimdu, Dumche and Tsogchen Festivals of the Khumbu Sherpas (2008) and Dharma Wheel of Great Bliss: A Guide to the Thangme Gompa Dechen Chökhor Ling (2008).
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