悉瓦拉腾寺位于四川省新龙县境内，倚山傍水，雄伟壮观，具有悠久的历史，极具传奇色彩。悉瓦
意为“一百零八位本尊”，拉腾意为“融入”。据说一千多年前莲花生大士的大弟子贝若扎那在新龙地区建有十几座小寺院。后来噶陀寺的大成就者直美信雄仁波切来到此地。有一天，直美信雄仁波切与其他许多大成就者亲眼目睹在朗朗晴空中突然出现听闻解脱法中的一百零八位本尊转瞬间化为一道七彩虹光融入此地，遂认定此地是块宝地。于是直美信雄仁波切合并了先前在此地的十几座寺院，建起了当地最大的庙宇——悉瓦拉腾寺。他还修复噶陀寺庙、灵塔宝殿，精绘壁画，用金粉书写大藏经数部，始创每月初十定期法会：可谓功业无边，功德无量。一世直美信雄证果之象，凡人也有目共睹：留手印于石上；观修宝瓶法时彩虹成帐，花如雨降，香味四溢。历世净土护持者直美信雄仁波切，是噶陀教的中流砥柱。其现在的转世五世直美信雄的事业遍及印藏各地。
悉瓦拉腾寺当时名声显赫，香火鼎盛，十方信众络绎不绝。当地的国王恭波南嘉甚笃佛学，命其爱子常年住锡在悉瓦拉腾寺，并意欲将拉萨大昭寺的释迦牟尼佛十二岁等身像——觉沃佛（由文成公主带入西藏）请入悉瓦拉腾寺内供奉，——但因种种因缘未能如愿。由于寺院在闻、思、修等方面堪称一流，故周边近六十座庙宇每年都要派七名出家人前来修学一年。一日，国王约前译宁玛巴虹身大成就者——白玛邓登大师（大师圆寂时，大地震动三次，天空布满了彩虹与光环，半空传来乐器的敲击声，香气弥漫四面八方。弟子们在这诸多的奇特景象中打开了帐篷，只见大师的座垫上只留下了大师的头发、指趾甲和袈裟，大师却无影无踪了。他已沿着圣藏老一辈大成就者的轨迹，显现了旧密佛法的光明大圆满之果法而成为虹身而去了）前来寺院主持盛大法会。大师言：天亮前必到达。黎明之时，只见大师疾走如飞，行至寺院前一大河旁，因无桥可过，正踌躇之时，只见水中缓慢升起一座长桥引大师通过，大师沿桥过后，此桥慢慢下沉——至今还依稀可见一绿色桥影在水中若隐若现！白玛邓登大师经常莅临该寺瞻礼、讲学、研修。一次，大师在寺庙的小经堂主持修炼甘露丸时，国王恭波南嘉说：若此甘露丸无效，我便掺上毒药让大家食用，使他们中毒死亡。大师说道：若此甘露丸灵验，便飞往空中，遍地皆是。话音刚落，甘露丸便腾空而出，撒向各处。此时仅能容纳二百人的小经堂顿时增至能容纳上千人，在场无论烧柴的还是做饭的均获得七粒甘露丸！国王见后，连连称赞，并深为自己刚才的暴戾习气而内疚，遂发愿在悉瓦拉腾寺内仿建一尊有两层楼高的觉沃佛像，并邀请其他寺院十几位大成就者前来悉瓦拉腾寺显露神通。国王的要求是：让每一位大成就者在毫无准备的情况下，当场献出一宝物为佛像装藏。只见白玛邓登大师信手拈来一支高香，随即打出一个漂亮无比的八吉祥中的吉祥结；一位大成就者见状便把摆放在桌子上的一把锋利铜剑编成一个璀璨夺目的金刚结；另一位大成就者快速从空中取出一个意寓吉祥的右旋海螺；还有一位大成就者马上将寺内泥塑的一尊者的座骑——威猛狮子的头部旋拧到相反的方向……真可谓是“一花一世界，一叶一如来。”神通与妙用，可见一斑。后来，寺院真的把此次各位大成就者的作品都装藏在觉沃佛像内。但由于文革的破坏，目前只有两样作品得以保存：吉祥结和金刚结。
Located in Xinlong County,Sichuan Province,Xiwalateng Monastery is staying along the mountains and a river.It is a imposing temple with a very long history and romaunts. Xiwa means "108 Deidy" while Lateng means "melts into". The story goes that Beinuozhana, Guru Rinpoche's best student, built up more than ten small temples in Xinlong area around one thousand years before. And then Zhimeijunxiong, the great mahasiddha from Gatuo Monastery visited here afterwards. One day, Zhimeijunxiong witnessed by himself that the 108 deities mentioned in the "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" appeared in the clear blue sky, then turned into a colorful rainbow and melted into this place immediately. He thus confirmed that this place is a sacred land. Guru Zhimeijunxiong then united the previous around ten temples into a monastery named Xiwalateng, which is the biggest one locally. Other than that, he restored Gatuo Monastery, built up pagoda and Buddhist mural paintings and transcribed several parts of Tripitaka using gold powder, started the tradition of the dhama ceremony on 10th every month. The first Zhimeijunxiong's great religious achievements were witnesed by the people at the time. These includes fingerprints on the stone, rainbow net and fragrant flower rains appeared while visualizing sacred bottle. Zhimeijunxiong, the pureland protector generation by generation, is the main supporter for Gatuo tradition. Nowadays the 5th Zhimeijunxiong's religious achievements spread all around Tibet and India.
Xiwalateng Monastery was very famous at that time with a lot of disciples and sponsors. The King of the place, Guomonuojia, who was a devouted Buddhist, assigned his beloved son to live there. Further more, he wanted to loot the Juewo Buddha statue(the actual Buddha size staue)from Jokhang Temple to Xiwalateng temple to worship it. But he finally failed due to some reasons. Because Xiwalateng temple has been always in the leading place in terms of teaching, learning and practising ,each year seven monks are sent by the surrounding 60 temples to study there for one year. One day, the King invited Guru Baimadengdeng to visit and preside a great ceremony. Guru said that I will arrive before daybreak. Towards dawn,Guru approached,walking like flying. When he got close the big river side in front of the temple, he hesitated because there was no bridge there. Just at that moment, a long bridge arised from the river to help Guru passing through. After Guru got across the river, the bridge sinked slowy back down into the river.Until now, we can still see the shadow of the bridge in the river,on and off.
Guru Maimadengdeng often visited the temple to worship,to teach and to practise. One time, when Guru was presiding a Ganlu Pill making procedure in the Small Hall of the temple, the king said, if these Ganlu Pills are useless, I will mix them with the poison and feed the people to kill them. But if it works out, wish it fly and spread everywhere. As soon as he finished the
words,these Ganlu Pills jumped up and spreaded everywhere. And the small hall that can only hold two hundred people immediately enlarged to the capacity of accommodate more than one thousand people. All the people on the scene, no matter maids or chefs, got seven Ganlu Pills. The King was so impressive that he felt guilty for his bad manner. He vowed and promised to built up a two story high Juewo Buddha Statue and invited around ten mahasiddha from other temples to show their supernatural power. His requirement is:everyone donating a valuable thing to fill up the bottom of the Buddha Staute without any preparation. Guru Baibadengdeng took a scented stick from the air and made a very beautiful lucky knot by it. Another mahasiddha created a shining Dorje knot using a bronze sword on the desk. One fetched a right spin conch from the air, while another switched a rider statue's head to a opposite direction. The masterpieces of those mahasiddhas were preserved in the temple,but they were destroyed during the cultural revolution afterwards. Only two things,Lucky knot and Dorje knot are still preserved there safe and sound.
