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(21951_pr-3.jpg) Lama Yeshe giving the Vajrasattva empowerment, Alhambra, Spain, 1982. "That evening, Lama Yeshe was about to give some students a Vajrasattva empowerment in his room at the Granada Palace Hotel when it was found that his dorje and bell had been left in Barcelona. No matter, Lama picked up two tuberose spikes and used those instead. At exactly those moments in the ritual when music is offered and the bell usually rung, the bells in the church next door began to chime— every time."