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Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé (, 1813–1899), also known as Jamgön Kongtrül the Great, was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, poet, artist, physician,
tertön
Tertön () is a term within Tibetan Buddhism meaning a person who is a discoverer of ancient hidden texts or '' terma''. Many tertöns are considered to be incarnations of the twenty five main disciples of Padmasambhava ( Guru Rinpoche), who fores ...
and polymath.
[Jackson, Roger R. The Tibetan Leonardo, 2012, https://www.lionsroar.com/the-tibetan-leonardo/] He was one of the most prominent Tibetan Buddhists of the 19th century and he is credited as one of the founders of the
Rimé movement
The Rimé movement is a movement or tendency in Tibetan Buddhism which promotes non-sectarianism and universalism.Sam van Schaik (2011). ''Tibet: A History'', pp. 161-162. Yale University Press. Teachers from all branches of Tibetan Buddhism - ...
(non-sectarian), compiling what is known as the "Five Great Treasuries".
[Jamgon Kongtrul, Kalu Rinpoche translation group, The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One: Myriad Worlds, Translators' Introduction.
] He achieved great renown as a scholar and writer, especially among the
Nyingma
Nyingma (literally 'old school') is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also often referred to as ''Ngangyur'' (, ), "order of the ancient translations". The Nyingma school is founded on the first lineages and transl ...
and
Kagyu lineages and composed over 90 volumes of Buddhist writing,
including his magnum opus, ''
The Treasury of Knowledge''.
Overview
Kongtrül was born in Rongyab (rong rgyab),
Kham
Kham (; )
is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas (), and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham ...
, then part of the
Derge Kingdom.
[Alexander Gardner, "Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye," Treasury of Lives, accessed May 18, 2018, http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Jamgon-Kongtrul-Lodro-Taye/4358.] He was first
tonsure
Tonsure () is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility. The term originates from the Latin word ' (meaning "clipping" or "shearing") and referred to a specific practice in ...
d at a
Bon
''Bon'', also spelled Bön () and also known as Yungdrung Bon (, "eternal Bon"), is a Tibetan religious tradition with many similarities to Tibetan Buddhism and also many unique features.Samuel 2012, pp. 220-221. Bon initially developed in t ...
monastery, and then at 20 became a monk at Shechen, a major
Nyingma
Nyingma (literally 'old school') is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also often referred to as ''Ngangyur'' (, ), "order of the ancient translations". The Nyingma school is founded on the first lineages and transl ...
monastery in the region, later moving on to the Kagyu
Palpung monastery
Palpung Monastery () is the name of the congregation of monasteries and centers of the Tai Situpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the name of the Tai Situ's monastic seat in Babang, Kham (modern Sichuan). Palpung mean ...
in 1833 under the Ninth
Tai Situ
Tai Situpa (; from ) is one of the oldest lineages of tulkus (reincarnated lamas) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism In Tibetan Buddhism tradition, Kenting Tai Situpa is considered as emanation of Bodhisattva Maitreya and Guru Padmasambhav ...
, Pema Nyinje Wangpo (1775-1853).
He studied many fields at Palpung, including
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy refers to the philosophical investigations and systems of inquiry that developed among various schools of Buddhism in India following the parinirvana of The Buddha and later spread throughout Asia. The Buddhist path combin ...
,
tantra
Tantra (; sa, तन्त्र, lit=loom, weave, warp) are the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. The term ''tantra'', in the Indian ...
, medicine, architecture, poetics and
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...
.
By thirty he had received teachings and
empowerments from more than sixty masters from the different schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Kongtrül studied and practiced mainly in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions, including
Mahamudra
Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit: महामुद्रा, , contraction of ) literally means "great seal" or "great imprint" and refers to the fact that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact of wisdom and emptiness inseparable". Mahāmudr ...
and
Dzogchen, but also studied and taught
Jonang
The Jonang () is one of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Its origins in Tibet can be traced to early 12th century master Yumo Mikyo Dorje, but became much wider known with the help of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a monk originally trained in the ...
Kalachakra
''Kālacakra'' () is a polysemic term in Vajrayana Buddhism that means " wheel of time" or "time cycles". "''Kālacakra''" is also the name of a series of Buddhist texts and a major practice lineage in Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. The ...
.
He also went on tour with the
fourteenth Karmapa and taught him Sanskrit.
He became an influential figure in Kham and eastern Tibet, in matters of religion as well as in secular administration and diplomacy.
He was influential in saving Palpung monastery when an army from the
Tibetan government of Central Tibet occupied Kham in 1865.
Kongtrül was affected by the political and inter-religious conflict going on in Tibet during his life and worked together with other influential figures, mainly
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (, 1820–1892), also known by his tertön title, Pema Ösel Dongak Lingpa, was a renowned teacher, scholar and tertön of 19th-century Tibet. He was a leading figure in the Rimé movement.
Having seen how the Gelug instit ...
(1820–1892) and also with the Nyingma treasure revealer
Chogyur Lingpa
Chokgyur Lingpa or Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829-1870) was a tertön or "treasure revealer" and contemporary of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul. Regarded as one of the major tertöns in Tibetan history, his termas are widely practiced ...
(1829–1870) and
Ju Mipham
JU may refer to:
Names and people
* Joo (Korean name), surname and given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Jū (鞠), Chinese surname
* Ru (surname), romanized Ju in Wade–Giles
* Ji Ju, a semi-legendary ancestor of the Zhou dyn ...
Gyatso (1846–1912). Kongtrül and his colleagues worked together to compile, exchange and revive the teachings of the
Sakya
The ''Sakya'' (, 'pale earth') school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug. It is one of the Red Hat Orders along with the Nyingma and Kagyu.
Origins
Virūpa, 16th century. It depic ...
,
Kagyu and
Nyingma
Nyingma (literally 'old school') is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also often referred to as ''Ngangyur'' (, ), "order of the ancient translations". The Nyingma school is founded on the first lineages and transl ...
, including many near-extinct teachings.
[Schaik, Sam van. ''Tibet: A History''. Yale University Press 2011, page 165-9.] This movement came to be named Rimé (''Ris med''), “nonsectarian,” or “impartial,” because it held that there was value in all Buddhist traditions, and all were worthy of study and preservation.
According to Sam van Schaik, without this collecting and printing of rare works, the later suppression of Buddhism by the Communists would have been much more final.
Jamgon Kongtrül's personal hermitage was Kunzang Dechen Osel Ling (''kun bzang bde chen 'od gsal gling''), "the Garden of Auspicious Bliss and Clear Light", and was built on a rocky outcrop above Palpung monastery.
It became an important center for the practice of three year retreats.
This is also where he composed most of his major works. Kongtrül's works, especially his 10 volume ''
The Treasury of Knowledge.'' has been very influential, especially in the
Kagyu and
Nyingma
Nyingma (literally 'old school') is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also often referred to as ''Ngangyur'' (, ), "order of the ancient translations". The Nyingma school is founded on the first lineages and transl ...
schools.
Philosophy
Besides promoting a general inclusiveness and non-sectarian attitude towards all the different Buddhist lineages and schools, Kongtrül was known to promote a
shentong
''Rangtong'' and ''shentong'' are two distinctive views on emptiness ( sunyata) and the two truths doctrine within Tibetan Buddhism.
''Rangtong'' (; "empty of self-nature") is a philosophical term in Tibetan Buddhism that is used to distinguis ...
view of
emptiness
Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation and apathy. Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, depression, loneliness, anhedonia,
despair, or other mental/emotional disorders, including schizoid ...
as the highest view.
His view of
Prasangika Madhyamaka
Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism"; ; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ ; ''dbu ma pa''), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no ''svabhāva'' doctrine"), refers to a tradition of Buddhist ...
is outlined in the following verse from the ''Treasury of Knowledge'':
According to Kongtrül, the difference between
prasangika and svatantrika Madhyamaka
Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism"; ; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ ; ''dbu ma pa''), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no ''svabhāva'' doctrine"), refers to a tradition of Buddhist ...
is:
Kongtrül also held that "
Shentong
''Rangtong'' and ''shentong'' are two distinctive views on emptiness ( sunyata) and the two truths doctrine within Tibetan Buddhism.
''Rangtong'' (; "empty of self-nature") is a philosophical term in Tibetan Buddhism that is used to distinguis ...
Madhyamaka" was a valid form of Madhyamaka, which was also based on the Buddha nature teachings of the third turning and
Nagarjuna's "Collection of Praises". For him, this Shentong Madhyamaka is the view which holds that the Ultimate truth, the "primordial wisdom nature, the dharmata":
However, he makes it clear that "The Shentong view is free of the fault of saying that the ultimate is an entity." Furthermore, Kongtrül states:
Finally, on the difference between
Rangtong and Shentong, Kongtrül writes in the ''Treasury of Knowledge'':
Tulkus
There have been several recognized
tulku
A ''tulku'' (, also ''tülku'', ''trulku'') is a reincarnate custodian of a specific lineage of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism who is given empowerments and trained from a young age by students of his or her predecessor.
High-profile examples ...
s (incarnations) of Lodro Thaye.
The Second Jamgon Kongtrul (1902–1952)
The biography of
Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama
Khakhyap Dorjé, 15th Karmapa Lama (; 1871–1922 or 1870–1921) was born in Sheikor village in Tsang, Tibet. It's said at birth he spoke the Chenrezig mantra, and at five he was able to read scriptures. He was recognized as the Karmapa reincar ...
mentions he had a vision in which he saw 25 simultaneous emanations of the master Jamgön Kongtrül. Preeminent among these was Karsé Kongtrül (, 1904–10 May 1952). Karsé Kongtrül was born as the son of the 15th Karmapa: ''Karsé'' means "son of the Karmapa". His formal religious name was as Jamyang Khyentsé Özer ().
Karsé Kongtrül was identified and enthroned by his father at age twelve in 1902, in Samdrub Choling at the monastery of Dowolung Tsurphu. Karsé Kongtrül resided at Tsadra Rinchen Drak, the seat of his predecessor in eastern Tibet. He received the full education and lineage transmission from the Karmapa. Among his other teachers were Surmang Trungpa Chökyi Nyinche, the 10th Trungpa tulku. He attained realization of the ultimate lineage, was one of the most renowned
Mahamudra
Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit: महामुद्रा, , contraction of ) literally means "great seal" or "great imprint" and refers to the fact that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact of wisdom and emptiness inseparable". Mahāmudr ...
masters and transmitted the innermost teachings to
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa
The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (; August 14, 1924 – November 5, 1981) was the spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Followers believed him to be part of the oldest line of reincarnate lamas in Vajra ...
. On many occasions he gave teachings, empowerments, and reading transmissions from the old and new traditions, such as the ''Treasury of Precious Termas'' (''Rinchen Terdzö''), and he rebuilt the retreat center of Tsandra Rinchen Drak, his residence at Palpung Monastery. Karsé Kongtrül died on 10 May 1952 at the age of 49.
3rd Jamgon Kongtrul (1954–1992)
The 3rd Jamgon Kongtrul, Karma Lodrö Chökyi Senge,
[Rigpa Wiki]
Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche - Rigpa Wiki
/ref> a tulku of Khyentse Özer, was born on 1 October 1954 matrilineal grandson of (later Lt Gen) Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (; ; February 1, 1910 – December 23, 2009
) was a Tibetan senior official who assumed various military and political responsibilities both before and after 1951 in Tibet. He is often known simply as Ngapo in English sourc ...
. He fled to India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
in 1959 in the aftermath of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and grew up at Rumtek Monastery
Rumtek Monastery (), also called the Dharma Chakra Centre, is a gompa located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Gangtok. It is the seat-in-exile of the Gyalwang Karmapa, inaugurated in 1966 by the 16th Karmapa. It is also a focal p ...
in Sikkim under the care of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa
The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (; August 14, 1924 – November 5, 1981) was the spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Followers believed him to be part of the oldest line of reincarnate lamas in Vajra ...
. Recognized as an incarnation of the previous Jamgon Kongtrul by the Karmapa
The Karmapa (honorific title '' His Holiness the Gyalwa'' ྒྱལ་བ་, Victorious One''Karmapa'', more formally as ''Gyalwang'' ྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་, King of Victorious Ones''Karmapa'', and informally as the ' ...
.
Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche travelled with the Karmapa
The Karmapa (honorific title '' His Holiness the Gyalwa'' ྒྱལ་བ་, Victorious One''Karmapa'', more formally as ''Gyalwang'' ྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་, King of Victorious Ones''Karmapa'', and informally as the ' ...
to the United States in 1976 and 1980. He engaged in building monasteries and initiated plans for a home for the elderly and a health clinic in Nepal.
On 26 April 1992, a mysterious accident occurred in Darjeeling District, India, with Jamgon Kongtrul as a passenger, when a new BMW veered off the road into a tree. He was thirty-seven years old. The accident took place near Rinpoche's monastery and a residential school that he founded for young monks and orphans.
4th Jamgon Kongtrul (1995 to present)
''Recognition by 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje''-
The 4th Jamgon Kongtrul, Lodro Choyki Nyima Tenpey Dronme, was born in the wood pig year in Central Tibet on the 26th of November 1995. His birth was prophesied by The Seventeenth Karmapa, Ögyen Trinley Dorje, who also recognised, confirmed the authenticity of his incarnation, and proclaimed it to the world. The prophecy, the search, and the recognition of the Fourth Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche are told in the book E MA HO! published by the Jamgon Kongtrul Labrang and can be obtained from Pullahari Monastery and viewed on www.jamgonkongtrul.org. He spent time between Kagyu Tekchen Ling and Pullahari Monastery, the monastic seats in India and Nepal founded by the Third Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche. Jamgon Kongtrul Labrang gave his studies, training, and the receiving transmissions from the Lineage Masters. Annually, he also attended the Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya, India, led by the Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa, and led the Kagyu Monlam in Kathmandu, Nepal. On April 14, 2016, the Jamgon Yangsi left Pullahari monastery and his monastic vows, stating he wanted to pursue his 'dream of becoming a doctor'.
The 4th Jamgon Kongtrul Mingyur Drakpa Senge was born on 17 December 1995 in Nepal.
The day before he was born, the late Chogye Trichen Rinpoche said in front of many Lamas and Tulkus: “Like prophesied ... today Jamgon Rinpoche arrived.”
In 1996, when the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, arrived in Bodhgaya, when he met the young Jamgon Rinpoche for the first time. Yangsi Rinpoche despite his young age was able to spontaneously pick up some rice and toss it into the air as a mandala offering, Straight away he exclaimed: “This is the Jamgon Yangsi (Reincarnation) indeed!” He then issued a recognition letter and gave him a name Karma Migyur Drakpa Senge Trinley Kunkhyab Palzangpo.
In 1998, when the Dalai Lama was visiting Bodhgaya, the Yangsi Rinpoche had a private audience with him, where they showed him the recognition letter and the 14th Dalai Lama performed the hair cutting ceremony for the 4th Jamgon Yangsi. In 2000, Drubwang Pema Norbu (Penor Rinpoche), was invited to the Karma Monastery in Bodhgaya, and he performed the vast and profound enthronement ceremony of 4th Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, again reconfirmed Jamgon Yangsi as reincarnation of the great Jamgon Kongtrul.
Other tulkus of Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye
In addition to Karsey Kongtrul Khyentsé Özer (1904–1953) (the principal incarnation), there were four other reincarnations of the first Jamgon Kongtrul: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche (b. 23 Oct 1964) is the title of a tulku lineage of Tibetan Buddhist lamas. They originate with Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, one of the most illustrious lamas of recent history, known for his central role in the rimé o ...
, Dzogchen Kongtrul Rinpoche
Dzogchen (, "Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as ''atiyoga'' ( utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Yungdrung Bon aimed at discovering and continuing in the ultimate ground of existence. ...
, and Shechen Kongtrul Rinpoche. Kalu Rinpoche
Kalu Rinpoche (1905 – May 10, 1989) was a Buddhist lama, meditation master, scholar and teacher. He was one of the first Tibetan masters to teach in the West.
Early life and teachers
Kalu Rinpoche was born in 1905 during the Female Woo ...
, also recognized post-facto as the incarnation of Lodrö Thaye's activity, was never enthroned as such.
Terma
* Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo is a terma revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa
Chokgyur Lingpa or Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829-1870) was a tertön or "treasure revealer" and contemporary of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul. Regarded as one of the major ...
* Rinchen Terdzö (in German)
Works by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé
The main corpus of Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye vast scholarly activities (comprising more than ninety volumes of works in all) is known as the Great Treasuries:
*The Treasury of Encyclopedic Knowledge ('), summarizing the entire sutric and tantric paths.
*The Treasury of Precious Instructions ('), a compendium of empowerments and oral instructions of what he formulated as the "Eight Great Chariots" of the instruction lineages in Tibet.
*The Treasury of Kagyü Mantras ('), a compendium of rituals, empowerments and oral instructions for the Yangdak, Vajrakilaya
In Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrakilaya (Skt. ''Vajrakīlaya''; Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་, ''Dorje Phurba'', Wyl. ''rdo rje phur pa'') or Vajrakumara (Skt. ''Vajrakumāra''; Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་གཞོན་ནུ་, '' ...
and Yamantaka
Yamāntaka ( sa, यमान्तक Yamāntaka) or Vajrabhairava (; ; ko, 대위덕명왕 ''Daewideok-myeongwang''; ja, 大威徳明王 ''Daiitoku-myōō''; mn, Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи ''Erlig-jin Jarghagchi'') is the "destroyer of ...
deities of the Nyingma kama tradition, and the tantra cycles from the Sarma lineages of Marpa and Ngok.
*The Treasury of Precious Termas ('), a massive compilation of termas.
*The Uncommon Treasury ('), which contains Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye's own profound terma revelations.
*The Treasury of Extensive Teachings ('), which includes various related works, such as praises and advice, as well as compositions on medicine, science and so on.
''The Treasury of Knowledge''
Jamgon Kongtrul's (1813–1899) ''The Infinite Ocean of Knowledge'' () consists of ten books or sections and is itself a commentary on the root verses 'The Encompassment of All Knowledge' () which is also the work of Jamgon Kongtrul. ''The Encompassment of All Knowledge'' are the root verses to Kongtrul's autocommentary ''The Infinite Ocean of Knowledge'' and these two works together are known as 'The Treasury of Knowledge' ().[Kongtrul Lodro Taye (author, compiler); Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group (translators) (1995, 2003). ''The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One; Myriad Worlds: Buddhist Cosmology in Abhidharma, Kãlacakra, Dzog-chen''. , p.36]Tibetan Text
Of the Five, the ''Treasury of Knowledge'' was Jamgon Kongtrul's ''magnum opus'', covering the full spectrum of Buddhist history, philosophy and practice. There is an ongoing effort to translate it into English. It is divided up as follows:
*Book One: Myriad Worlds (Snow Lion, 2003. )
*Book Two: The Advent of the Buddha (parts 2, 3, and 4 forthcoming)
*:Part One: The Teacher's Path to Awakening
*:Part Two: The Buddha's Enlightenment
*:Part Three: The Buddha's Twelve Deeds
*:Part Four: Enlightenment's Bodies and Realms
*Book Three: The Buddha's Doctrine—The Sacred Teachings
*:Part One: What Are the Sacred Teachings?
*:Part Two: Cycles of Scriptural Transmission
*:Part Three: Compilations of the Buddha's Word
*:Part Four: Origins of the Original Translations' Ancient Tradition (Nyingma)
*Book Four: Buddhism's Spread Throughout the World
*:Part One: Buddhism's Spread in India
*:Part Two: How Buddhist Monastic Discipline and Philosophy Came to Tibet
*:Part Three: Tibet's Eight Vehicles of Tantric Meditation Practice
*:Part Four: The Origins of Buddhist Culture
*Book Five: Buddhist Ethics (Snow Lion, 2003. )
*Book Six: The Topics for Study
*:Part One: A Presentation of the Common Fields of Knowledge and Worldly Paths
*:Part Two: The General Topics of Knowledge in the Hinayana and Mahayana
*:Part Three: Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy (Snow Lion, 2007. )
*:Part Four: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Snow Lion, 2005. )
*Book Seven: The Training in Higher Wisdom
*:Part One: Gaining Certainty about the Keys to Understanding
*:Part Two: Gaining Certainty about the Provisional and Definitive Meanings in the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, the Two Truths and Dependent Arising
*:Part Three: Gaining Certainty about the View
*:Part Four: Gaining Certainty about the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind
*Book Eight: The Training in Higher Meditative Absorption (Samadhi)
*:Part One, Two: Shamatha and Vipashyana; The Stages of Meditation in the Cause-Based Approaches (forthcoming)
*:Part Three: The Elements of Tantric Practice (Snow Lion, 2008).
*:Part Four: Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayana (Snow Lion, 2008. )
*Book Nine: An Analysis of the Paths and levels to Be Traversed (forthcoming)
*:Part One: The Paths and Levels in the Cause-Based Dialectical Approach
*:Part Two: The Levels and Paths in the Vajrayana
*:Part Three: The Process of Enlightenment
*:Part Four: the Levels in the Three Yogas
*Book Ten: An Analysis of the Consummate Fruition State (forthcoming)
*:Part One: the Fruition in the Dialectical Approach
*:Part Two: The More Common Attainment in the Vajrayana
*:Part Three: The Fruition in the Vajrayana
*:Part Four: The Fruition State in the Nyingma School
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See also
*Simhamukha
In Tibetan Buddhism, Siṃhamukhā (Tib. Senge Dongma) or Siṃhavaktra, also known as the Lion Face Dakini or Lion-headed Dakini, is a wisdom dakini of the Dzogchen tradition. She is represented as a fierce dakini with the head of a snow lion. H ...
References
External links
A Brief Biography by Ven. Bokhar Rinpoche
according to Beru Khyentse Rinpoche, father of one recognition
recognized by Thaye Dorje, son of Beru Khyentse Rinpoche
4th Jamgon Kongtrul Chokyi Nyima
recognized by Ogyen Trinley Dorje and the Dalai Lama
Lotsawa House – translations of texts by and about Jamgon Kongtrul
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