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|pagename=Dorje Drak Rigdzin 4, Pema Trinle
|MainNamePhon=Dorje Drak Rigdzin the Fourth, Pema Trinle
|SortName=Dorje Drak Rigdzin the Fourth, Pema Trinle
|MainNameTib=རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་རིག་འཛིན ༠༤ པདྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས།
|MainNameWylie=rdo rje brag rig 'dzin 04 pad+ma 'phrin las
|OtherNames=Rigdzin Pema Trinle; rigs 'dzin padma 'phrin las
|PersonType=Abbots; Authors of Tibetan Works; Classical Tibetan Authors; Tulkus
|bio=See a detailed autobiography translated in Jay Valentine's dissertation: [https://doi.org/10.18130/V3F51F. The Lords of the Northern Treasures: The Development of the Tibetan Institution of Rule by Successive Incarnations].

Rigdzin Pema Trinle (1641-1717) was born into the noble Janak (bya nag) family near Samye Monastery in Central Tibet and at age six was recognized by the Third Yolmo Tulku Tendzin Norbu and Zurchen Choying Rangdrol as the reincarnation of the Third Dorje Drak Rigdzin, Ngakgi Wangpo, becoming enthroned at Dorje Drak Monastery, which benefited significantly from the Fifth Dalai Lama's patronage of the Jangter (Northern Treasure) tradition—a protection extended because of Dorje Drak's favorable position with the new Tibetan government, unlike other Nyingma institutions allied with the defeated Tsang King. The Fifth Dalai Lama personally gave Pema Trinle his ordination vows and the name Lobzang Pema Trinle, while his education under renowned masters including Zurchen, Menlungpa Lochok Dorje, Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje, and Kangyurwa Gonpo Sonam Chokden produced legendary expertise in both sutra and tantra, particularly establishing him as an unmatched master of Jangter rituals who served for decades as chief ritual officiator for the Tibetan state, presiding over major ceremonies including the Potala Palace's final consecration and longevity rites for the Sixth Dalai Lama. Distinguished from his predecessors by his prolific authorship, Pema Trinle composed thirteen volumes on Nyingma tantras and other subjects, including a seminal empowerment text for the Anuyoga tantra Gongpa Dupai Do that was commissioned by the Fifth Dalai Lama and became central to that tantra's transmission, while he also revealed treasures, taught thousands of monks, and greatly expanded Dorje Drak through the 1660s-1670s, making it a center of monastic arts and aesthetic excellence that served as a model for Mindroling Monastery, until 1717 when he was killed at age seventy-seven by Mongol Dzungar invaders during their anti-Nyingma campaign and Dorje Drak was destroyed. ([https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Pema-Trinle/9169 Source: Samten Chhosphel, Treasury of Lives])
|yearbirth=1641
|yeardeath=1717
|bornin=Central Tibet
|TolLink=https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Pema-Trinle/9169
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