A Holy Occurrence That I Inadvertently Saw

        The following occurrence took place one day in mid-1996. In order to register the car of my Buddha Master, H.H. Wan Ko Yeshe Norbu, a rubbing had to be made of the number on the engine. We were unable to make that rubbing ourselves. Therefore, at 19 Xinhua West Road in Chengdu, China, I reported to the Buddha Master that the car must be driven to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. They have a special machine there that can produce rubbings of engine numbers. As soon as the Buddha Master heard me say that the car would be driven away, His Holiness immediately interrupted me and said, “Dehe, quickly go and tell Xiaoyu not to drive his car out. Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!”

        Hearing such urgency in the Buddha Master’s voice, I rushed out the door. I saw that the car of Xiaoyu and the others had just left. Although I called out to them, they did not hear me because of all the street noise. I ran after the car a short distance but could not catch up with it. I saw that they made a right turn and drove the car away. I returned to the Buddha Master and reported, “I could not stop them. I saw them drive away, but they could not hear my shouts.” The Buddha Master replied, “How terrible. They are doomed.” I asked the Buddha Master what the problem was and whether I could do anything. The Buddha Master answered, “You cannot do anything. Wait for the bad thing to happen.” The Buddha Master did not say one more word after that.

        After more than about ten minutes, a phone next to me began to ring. The person calling was none other than fellow-disciple Pingjiang Tang. In a terrified and shaking voice, brother Pingjiang Tang reported to the Buddha Master that a great misfortune had occurred. He said that after their car was hit by a large truck, it crashed into a pedicab, causing that pedicab to fly into a ditch. The back half of their car was gone. He did not know how many people died in the accident. The site of the accident and the ditch were filled with blood. The large truck that hit them fled the scene. Xiaoyu was able to stop another car, got into it, and chased after the truck. Brother Pingjiang Tang hastened to beseech empowerment from the Buddha Master. After the Buddha Master finished the phone call, His Holiness immediately practiced dharma to empower (bless) them.