Ngor

Ngor is the main branch of the Sakya school. Sakya is the second most important school of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. Amidst the prophetical announcements of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, many have been made about the Kalachakra bringing about a new era during time of strife when Buddhism will see a waning-period. Others come from Guru Rinpoche. Prophecies that alternately announce downfall and freeing thus come to realisation in opposing forces of revealing and banning, hiding and suppressing.

The banning of the supressed Jonang school

Sakyas other school-branches are :

• Sakya itself,
• Tsar
• Bodong
• Jonang

From : The History of the Jonangpa. "In the early 14th century the monk Sherab Gyeltsen broke away from the Sakyapa school and established the Jonangpa school at Jonang, about 160 km northwest of the Tashilhunpo monastery in Shigatse. There, the Jonangpa built a large monastery and constructed a printing press.

The Jonangpa school had generated a number of renowned Buddhist scholars, the greatest of whom was Taranatha (1575-1634). Taranatha placed great emphasis on the Kalachakra system of tantra which became an important part of Gelugpa teaching after the Gelugpa absorbed the Jonangpa monasteries. Taranatha's influence on Gelugpa thinking continues even to this day in the teaching of the present 14th Dalai Lama who actively promotes initiation into Kalachakra.

After several centuries of independence, however, in the late 17th century the Jonangpa order came under the attack by the Fifth Dalai Lama who forcibly converted their monasteries to the Gelugpa order."

Ngor is prophecied by the Buddha Himself

A prophecy exists about the school of Ngor, in which its founder Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo, is called the Second Buddha. His Coming was prophecied by the Buddha Himself. "Ngor Chen Kunga Zangpo, (is the) founder of the Ngorpa branch (of Sakya). The appearance of this great Lama was prophecised by the Buddha." The realizing of this prophecy, of the spreading worldwide of his teaching, becoming as widespread as present day's Buddhism, (which is the prophecy) will certainly happen due to its faithfulness to the authentic tradition and message of the Lord Buddha Himself. This happening will no doubt be closely linked to the revealing of the Kalachakra, that was banned in the 17th century by the Gelugpas, which banning is revealed and denounced in the Jalpo article of Wikipedia. Ominious signs of Tibetan Tantric Buddhisms rotting appear in articles published on American Buddha Online Library, while a future possibility for Tantrism is outlined in the story of the Kalachakra King.

Main branch-school of Sakya

Ngor represents hundreds of monasteries in former Tibet. Being 85% of Sakya, which is Tibet's second school, this is in fact Ngor that is Tibet's second most influential school. This makes it Buddhism's second most influential school as, through the imperial peerage of China, that it, in turn, inherited from the Mongol Khans, Tibetan Buddhism is foremost in the Buddhism of the world. Buddha taught the importance of monasticism in his religion, and wanted to delay women from entering the Order, because "it would shorten the length of the Doctrine". Tibet's monastic institutions all hail from the Buddha's, but the strict rule that he instituted was followed mostly by Ngor as, rules of morality were extremely stringent : no paedofilia was there, such as was current in major institutions, such as the three Gelug main temples, is well-known to have been the case. As for women, in Tibet, Ngor was off-limits, women being totally forbidden to even so much as enter the monastery grounds.

Monasticism has no role today in modern culture;, and the orders that now try to retain this tradition, are doomed to disappear having lost all relevancy in modern times.

The House of Phende of Ngor's High Lamas

The House of Phende is alone, among the ancient houses of lamas in Ngor, to have turned the page of monasticism and to have embraced the modern life of married religious clergies. Its temples are the only ones of Ngor, to have established a major institution in Taiwan. Of all of the previous institutions of Ngor, that covered Tibet, only the Phende tradition, within Ngor, has survived as a modern answer to the propagating of Buddhism in the world, which can carry out the mission outlined in the prophecy, saying Ngor's teaching will spread throughout the world. The Kalachakra returning to the Sakyapa (Ngorpa) fold, is probably not foreign to the realization, in our times, of the prophecy. The Kalachakra is indeed a powerful means of propagation, representing nothing less than the most widely given teaching of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, and also of all of Buddhism in general. This return of Kalachakra to Ngor, from the Gelugpas school that banned it in the 17th century, is illustrated as in the Jalpo article in Wikipedia, which brings the reality of the history of Tibet to light, in a blazing away of the veil surrounding Tibet's unfortunate past human rights' record (banning of the school of Jonang of Sakya, of the Jalpo demonic protector of Sakya and of the Kalachakra deity of Sakya.). The House of Phende no longer relies on monks to further its tradition, nor on merely endogenical tribes from the Tibetan plateau or surroundings, or even on born-Buddhists from the Orient at all, and now relies upon whoever has the right karma, a good rebirth and the wits to do the job at hand. This means modern, educated and well-travelled people of international stature and vision. One person who furthers this agenda is Geir Smith, well-known on Wikipedia for authoring such articles as Jalpo, Phende, Ngor, etc...and contributing to many others. A student of the Phende House of Ngor for more than thirty-five years ('06), he is now recognized by this House as being a representative of it.

Other attempts at preserving Ngor and Buddhism within the Ngorpa tradition have met with obstacles and failure, as indeed, Ngor having been shattered to pieces by the exile from Tibet, what has been reconstrcted, has been the mere reflection of that break-up, with solely fundamentalist, passeist attuitudes from the surviving actors of Ngor, refusing all modernity and renovating rejuvenation. Their attitudes are those of returning to the past, rather than opening to the world, and to new, developped unfolding. Their's is a closing in upon oneself and one's culture, community and past.

Modernity is embraced by the Ngorpa school, only by the Phende House's expanding into new activities outside of its Tibetan sphere, and into new non-Tibetan spheres that it had not embarked upon, in these last decades after the exile. Slumbering for a few decades, it has now jumped into motion, through its new temple in Taiwan, and from there, embarked into the vision of its future plans to expand and realize through that, the prophecy that it has been blessed with by the Buddha.

External links

• 1. Sakya-Ngor. Site of the Phende House of Ngor : link to the origins of the important Ngorpa School and its prophecy issuing from Buddha Himself. The genesis of this second most important school of Buddhism is herein documented.

• 2. The same site, above, in the original French, with the prophecy of the Buddha in it.

Less authoritative than the above, but also informative about the Ngorpa-Sakya school :

• 3. The site of Jampa Thaye, a student of Ngor, but a Kagyupa basically, not Ngorpa, thus sectarianism is a risk.

• 4. Chogye Trichen site : it's not Ngorpa, but is a good reference for Sakyapa schools, generally.

• 5. Jeff Watts' general site about Sakya-Ngor; but somewhat sectarian, and not open to all.

• 6. Sakya Trizin's official site. Good reference, but representing his own temple only, not the whole of Ngorpa temples in India - and his own temple's monks are not even Sakyapas, but really Ngorpas. Sakya, the school proper, is only a small part of Sakya; Ngor is 85% of Sakya, and the latter has no temples really in India now, while in Tibet it only had its own temple of Sakya, truly.