The Buddha's Living Inner Lineage
If we think that the Buddha is still alive in this world, then his continued existence is due to his alignments with the inner lineage of his awakening. This comes from Vajradhara, primordial buddha, up to Shakyamuni Buddha. It continued through the various rivers, streams and rivulets of living transmission from which arose important sharing of transformation guidance. The nodes of lineage are not the names of the lineage but the living transmissions from guidance beings. The sub religions of the traditions have the same function as religions, to create the outer structure to preserve the teachings of transformation such as education and providing places to live such as monasteries and nunneries. There is no Mr. Nyingma, Mr. Gelug, or Mr. Rime! From time to time, great inner beings bring together streams of living transmissions with great effort, into a new inner form to heal any errors in the preservation by strengthening and integrating through inner alliances or unions of living tr...