Samye was predated by milerapa by generations it indeed was plagued with obstacles which king tritsun detsun enlisted the help of Guru Padmasambhava at the behest of vaiarochana the most renowned Mahayana master of the time. Padmasambhava being the most renowned sorcerer or tantrika of the time used is dagger a implement of a wrathful form of the embodiment of forgiveness and primordial purity to pacify the anger of the demons which is the exact purpose of such a dagger which is modeled after a tent stake in order to represent the piercing staking or pinning of intent as a structure of consciousness. Please research samye of you doubt me. It may be Lhasa and portala palace had obstacles that milarepa dealt with but since the geluks are post gampopa milerepas student and the great master of the original kadam Mahayana lineage (not the new tantric Kadam Lineage which opposes the Dhalai Lama and should be approached with care). The original Kadamapa Gelug Lineage merged with the Tantric Lineage of Tsongkapa and that became the Gelugpa Lineage which built potala so milerapa being pre dissolution of the kadampa Mahayanists would not have been present for the building of potala years later after the Gelugs attained political power over Tibet after the Nyingma and Kabyle Lineage (Milerapas Lineage) had lost their political control of the country. Also he mixes up potala and samye as being one and the same. This is an interesting look into the average education and scriptural understanding of an an average or even above average level of Tibetan Villager. This is the primary reason Tibetan Buddhism must change as Lama Rigdze says for the east as when you have no actual access to scripture doing whatever the Lama says is easy and a lack of education correlates to a lack of skepticism. High levels of intellectualism and individualism cause fierce doubts which need to be settled systematically by skillfully through wisdom releasing the attatchment to ones own deluded sense of intellectual prowess and the sense of it being of any use, as well as the realization that the intellect cannot understand scripture and it is not meant to be understood but undertaken as instruction or biographical insight into the mind of a practitioner. Scripture must be sifted for the direct clues to how to engage practice. After practice takes hold the scripture will simply describe your natural behavior and experience. Anyways it’s a beautiful myth but not the least bit accurate. If anyone’s as the consecration ritual for cutting trees written I would greatly wish to have it. That being said it’s a nice story
