Status Updates From The Magical Play of Illusio...

'After His Holiness's departure from Lhasa, the Chinese Communists branded the chief members of the cabinet, me in particular, as "reactionary leaders"...They said that His Holiness had been abducted and that we had secretly plotted with foreign imperialist powers...and made up an endless list of fabricated stories against me, claiming that I had engaged in sexual of women and so on.'

Was reading a very poorly edited copy until I found a much better edition...so started over and am pretty much reading it twice...

...the way the term ‘Arhat’ is presented in the Abhidharma scriptures, etc. answering the questions according to my understanding. I don’t know if I was correct on all points or not.

...that there is a difference of grossness and subtlety between the two above mentioned types of delusions; and that according to Prasangika system, meditation on selflessness in accordance with the assertions of the lower tenet systems can only temporarily suppress the grosser delusions but not eliminate them entirely and I spoke about...

In the Prasangika system, since it is said that all delusions involve grasping inherent existence or ‘bear similarities’ of object, duration, etc. with grasping inherent existence, does that not mean that by meditating on selflessness as asserted by the lower tenet systems one could not abandon even the manifest delusions? I answered that there were differing assertions regarding whether nirvana was emptiness or not;

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] asked me the following questions. Is nirvana emptiness or not? Is there any difference in the delusions generated by grasping at the self-sufficient substantially existent personal identity asserted by the lower tenet systems, and the delusions generated by grasping at the inherent existence of personal identity asserted by the Prasangika Madyamika?
In the Prasangika system...

...In each case, he was presented with arguments on the most difficult points and gave answers without any problem, thus filling the wise elders in attendance with awe. We enjoyed the good fortune of the amazing spectacle of seeing these puffed up scholars who looked down upon him as a young upstart having their confident pride trampled under the soles of his feet!

Amidst the huge assembly of extremely learned, wise dialecticians, geshes of the three monastic seats who thought of themselves as the master logicians Dignaga and Dharmakirti, in the morning, he debated Pramana in the courtyard; at noon, Madyamaka and Paramita; and in the evening Vinaya and Abhidharma....

...Having this informal opportunity to meet with His Holiness was like the blossoming of hundreds of petals of good fortune of the lotus of the mind being fully watered by the rain of devotion.’

...his travel in Domä, and how Mao Tsetung had clearly revealed in conversation the harmful philosophy of his innermost intentions, and so on, bestowing many secret accounts of what had happened for me to take to heart. I also gave His Holiness an account of what had occurred on our journey through Kham.

...when His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Chamdo I went to the far end of the Tzachu River bridge to welcome him. When I saw the billion-fold illumination of virtue and goodness of his golden face, so meaningful to see, he smiled with limitless joy and invited me to his residence. I immediately went into his presence and he spoke freely about China and the other areas he had visited in the meantime,...

*The three isolations:

Isolation of body, speech, and mind, high realizations of the generation and completion stages of highest yoga tantra.

...through actual training of body, speech, and mind in practice of the three isolations*. But because of being tightly bound by the insistent appearances and attachments of this life, I was unable to sever that continuum of activities that distracts oneself and fails others, and I had to leave it aside.

Thinking about this unstable nature of samsaric happiness and sorrow, endlessly and constantly fluxuating as fast as lightning, made me want to forcefully renounce the essenceless things of this life and immediately go into the mountains like an injured deer, to soak myself in the nectar of the three isolations and stay with the Four Orders of the Aryas, striving for full attainment in this very lifetime through...

As Je Milarepa has said,

Thunder and lightning and southern clouds, Arise from nowhere else but space
And disappear nowhere else but space; They are all self-arising and self-dissolving.

Rainbows and mists and fog, Arise in the sky itself
And dissolve into the sky itself;
They are all self-arising and self-dissolving.