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song of the bird Karavinka. It sounded like the whistling of trees
and leaves, as high as the mountain top and as deep as the abyss.
His voice came from the slope of the gloomy and deserted
mountains of the Himalayas, and slowly spread to the highest
peak of the snow-covered Mount Everest close to the eternal
clouds and rains.
This was the voice from a transcendent intelligence and
superior art of the enlightened Tibetan Saint, Jesun Milarepa,
Great Yogi of Tibet. Wearing only thin ragged clothes and
carrying a small, but powerful cane that resounded clearly the
rhythm of his footsteps, Milarepa climbed up successive slabs of
rocks as he came out of his ten years seclusion. He had spent the
time in continuous meditation and application of the supreme
powers of the Secret Doctrine.
Milarepa's successor was not Rechung who recorded
Milarepa’s biography, but was the first disciple of Milarepa,
Dvagpolharge or “Je-Jampopa”. Je-Jampopa died in 1152 AD,
two years after he had established the monastery of T’surika,
which was the founding communal palace of the Kargyutpa Sect.
Since then the Guru tradition of this sect continued on without
interruption.
Tibetan Buddhism included Secret Buddhist sects. All the
three sects of Ancient Secret Adiyoga, Madhymika, and
Kargyutpa were right for Tibet's situation. They grew rapidly and
soon became deeply rooted in the people’s mind, making Tibet
the largest Secret Buddhist country in the world. However,
during the period between World War I and II, Tibet Secret
Buddhism has gradually degenerated.