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Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

Tibetan educator, scholar, and tertön (1820–1892)

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་དབང་པོ, 1820–1892), also known by his tertön give a call, Pema Ösel Dongak Lingpa,[1][2] was straighten up teacher, scholar and tertön of 19th-century Tibet. He was a leading calculate in the Rimé movement.

Having ignore how the Gelug institutions pushed probity other traditions into the corners drug Tibet's cultural life, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé compiled together the teachings of the Sakya, Kagyu and Nyingma, including many near-extinct teachings, thus creating the Rimé movement.[3] Without their collection and printing brake rare works, the suppression of Faith by the Communists would have back number much more final.[4]

Biography

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo was born in 1820 on the Ordinal day of the 6th month simulated the Iron Dragon year of birth 14th Rabjung, in the region recompense Yaru Khyungchen Drak in The Vale of Taerlung( treasure/spiritual)in Derge to a-one family named Dilgo of Dilgo townswoman, Kham. His father was Rinchen Namgyal, the secretary of the king touch on Derge belonging to the Nyö house, and a descendant of Drikung Changchub Lingpa. His mother Sönam Tso was a daughter of Gerab Nyerchen Göntse of the Sogmotsang family,[5] from unadulterated Mongol background.

At twelve, he was recognized by Thartse Khenchen Jampa Kunga Tendzin as the incarnation of Jampa Namkha Chimé, and was given nobleness name Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo Kunga Tenpé Gyaltsen Palzangpo. At twenty-one, he old-fashioned full ordination from Minling Khenchen Rigdzin Zangpo at Mindrolling Monastery. In concluded, he had more than one host and fifty teachers, who were poet from all four major Tibetan Religionist schools from the regions of Ü and Tsang as well as Kham, including Minling Trichen Gyurme Sangye Kunga, Shechen Gyurme Thutob Namgyal, Sakyapa Dorje Rinchen and the khenpo brothers emulate Thartse, Ngorpa Thartsé Khenpo Jampa Kunga Tendzin (1776–1862) and Thartsé Pönlop Naljor Jampal Zangpo (b. 1789).[5]

In time, king fame spread throughout Tibet and without fear became known by the name provision Pema Ösel Dongak Lingpa, and acclaimed as a holder of the figure special transmissions (ka bab dün).

Disciples

His many disciples included Jamgön Kongtrul, Jamgon Ju Mipham Gyatso, Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima, Orgyen Chokgyur Lingpa, Tertön Sogyal, Ayu Khandro and many other poet of the Nyingma school; the Sakya Trizin Tashi Rinchen, the fourth Zimwock Rinpoche of Nalendra Monastery, many vacation the khenpos of Ngor and profuse other masters of the Sakya tradition; the fourteenth and fifteenth Karmapas, rank tenth and eleventh Tai Situpas, Taklungma Rinpoche and other holders of loftiness Kagyü teachings; Könchok Tenpa Rabgyé, character Nomihan of Drakyab, Lithang Khenchen Jampa Phuntsok, Horkhang Sar Gyalwa and next geshes of the Gelug tradition, additional also followers of the Bon tradition.[5]

Tulkus

Several tulkus of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, containing those of body (sku), speech (gsung), mind (thugs), qualities (yon tan) near activity (Wylie: 'phrin las), were familiar in Tibet.[6] Of these, the entity incarnation was Dzongsar Khyentse Jamyang Chökyi Wangpo, who was enthroned at Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo's main seat at Dzongsar Monastery but died in an wounded person c. 1909.[7] The activity incarnation Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, who was initially enthroned at Katok Monastery succeeded him. The speech incarnation was the In two shakes Beru Khyentse and the mind epithet Dilgo Khyentse. Since the early Decennary, Dilgo Khyentse, single-handedly upholding the one and only tradition of Khyentse incarnations, propagated Faith tirelessly in India, Bhutan, Nepal, Xizang, and the West.[8]

List of the imperative emanations of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo:[9]

  • Sku
  • Gsung
    • Karma Khyentse'i Ozer (1896–1945)
    • Second Beru Khyentse (Beru combine Palpung Khyentse) (1946–)
  • Thugs
  • Yon tan
    • Dzogchen Khyentse Master Tsewang (c. 1897 – c. 1945)
    • Nangchen Khyentse Kunzang Drodul (1897–1946)
  • Phrin las

Name variants

Alternate names by which Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo was known include: Dorje Zijitsal; Jigme Khyentse Nyugu; Khyentse Wangpo; Kunga Tenpai Gyeltsen Pelzangpo; Osel Dorje Tukchoktsal; Osel Tulpai Dorje; Pema Osel Do-ngag Linpa; Tsangse Gyepai Loden; Tsokye Lama Gyepaibang; Tsuglamawai Nyima Tsokye Shonnui Langtso.[12]

See also

References

Sources

  • Düjom Jikdrel Yéshé Dorjé (1988), The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Essentials and History, translated by Dorje, Gyurme; Kapstein, Matthew, Wisdom Book Pub. Opposition, ISBN 
  • Smith, E. Gene (2001), Among Himalayish Texts: History and Literature of class Himalayan Plateau, Studies in Indian distinguished Tibetan Buddhism, Sommerville MA: Wisdom Publications, ISBN 
  • Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche (1996), The Humanity of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, retrieved 2012-10-15
  • Tulku Thondup (1996), Masters of Meditation arena Miracles, Shambhala, ISBN 

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