Dodrupchen, 4th

PersonType	Category:Abbots Category:Authors of Tibetan Works Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Category:Tulkus
MainNamePhon	Dodrupchen Rinpoche, the 4th
MainNameTib	རྡོ་གྲུབ་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
MainNameWylie	rdo grub chen rin po che
SortName	Dodrupchen, 4th
bio	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)
YearBirth	1927
YearDeath	2022
BornIn	Golok
associatedwebsite	http://www.mahasiddha.org/
affiliation	Dodrupchen Monastery
religiousaffiliation	Nyingma
StudentOf	Dzogchen Rinpoche, The 6th
TeacherOf	Lopön Thekchok Yeshe Dorje
BDRC	https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P2562
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Names

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

b. 1927 in the Golok province of Dokham in the eastern part of Tibet.

Affiliation

Nyingma Dzogchen

The present head of the new Dodrupchen Monastery in Sikkim, India.

Other Biographical Information

Previous Incarnations

• Son of King Krikri, at the time of Buddha Kashyapa
• Prince Murub Tsenpo

The Dodrupchen Incarnations

1. Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer - 'jigs med 'phrin las 'od zer (1745-1821)
2. Dodrupchen Jikmé Puntsok Jungné - 'jigs med phun tshogs 'byung gnas(1824-1863)
3. Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima - 'jigs med bstan pa'i nyi ma (1865-1926)
4. Dodrupchen Rigdzin Tenpé Gyaltsen - rig 'dzin bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan (1927-1961) & Dodrupchen Tubten Trinlé Pal Zang (b.1927)