Dodrupchen, 4th
| Wylie | rdo grub chen rin po che |
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| English Phonetics | Dodrupchen Rinpoche, the 4th |
| Sort Name | Dodrupchen, 4th |
| Birth: | 1927 |
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| Death: | 2022 |
| Place of birth: | Golok |
Tibetan calendar dates
| Website: | http://www.mahasiddha.org/ |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Dodrupchen Monastery
- Religious Affiliation
- Nyingma
- Teachers
- Dzogchen Rinpoche, The 6th
- Students
- Lopön Thekchok Yeshe Dorje
Biographical Information
Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoche, the Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Tubten Trinlé Pal Zangpo (Tib. ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཕྲིན་ལས་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་, Wyl. thub bstan phrin las dpal bzang po) aka Jikmé Trinlé Palbar (1927-2022), was one of the most important masters in the Nyingma and Dzogchen traditions. As the fourth incarnation of Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer, the heart-son of Jikmé Lingpa who revealed the Longchen Nyingtik cycle, Dodrupchen Rinpoche was the principal holder of the Longchen Nyingtik teachings.
He was born in 1927 in the Golok province of Dokham in the eastern part of Tibet....At the age of four, he travelled to the Dodrupchen monastery, where he was enthroned....
At Dodrupchen monastery, he built a Scriptural College, and he provided the woodblocks for printing the Seven Treasures of Longchenpa. He gave many major teachings, especially in the eastern part of Tibet.
On account of the changing political situation, Dodrupchen Rinpoche left Tibet and arrived in Sikkim in October 1957; from then on, he made Gangtok his permanent residence. Once again he subsidized the printing of many books, including Longchenpa's Seven Treasures and Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease. He has given many empowerments, transmissions and teachings in Sikkim, where he has two monasteries, in Bhutan, where he also heads a monastery, and in India and Nepal. Dodrupchen Rinpoche recognized the Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche, whose enthronement was held in the Royal Temple at Gangtok in 1972...
He made a number of visits to the West, his first being in 1973, when he established a centre called the Maha Siddha Nyingmapa Centre in Massachusetts. Dodrupchen Rinpoche also visited Britain, France and Switzerland, and in 1975, gave the empowerment of Rigdzin Düpa at Sogyal Rinpoche's request in London. (Rigpa Wiki, Source Accessed February 2, 2022)
- BDRC Link (P2562)
- https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P2562
- Wiki Pages
Names[edit]
Tibetan: རྡོ་གྲུབ་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
Wylie: Rdo grub chen rin po che
rdo grub chen rin po che
Thub bstan phrin las dpal bzang po
Other Transliterations in use:
The 4th Dodrupchen
Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoche, the Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Tubten Trinlé Pal Zangpo
Dates[edit]
b. 1927 in the Golok province of Dokham in the eastern part of Tibet.
Affiliation[edit]
Nyingma Dzogchen
The present head of the new Dodrupchen Monastery in Sikkim, India.
Other Biographical Information[edit]
Previous Incarnations[edit]
- Son of King Krikri, at the time of Buddha Kashyapa
- Prince Murub Tsenpo
The Dodrupchen Incarnations[edit]
- Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer - 'jigs med 'phrin las 'od zer (1745-1821)
- Dodrupchen Jikmé Puntsok Jungné - 'jigs med phun tshogs 'byung gnas(1824-1863)
- Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima - 'jigs med bstan pa'i nyi ma (1865-1926)
- Dodrupchen Rigdzin Tenpé Gyaltsen - rig 'dzin bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan (1927-1961) & Dodrupchen Tubten Trinlé Pal Zang (b.1927)