Dudjom Rinpoche

Dudjom Rinpoche on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors • Tertons

བདུད་འཇོམས་འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་

Wylie	bdud 'joms 'jigs bral ye shes rdo rje
English Phonetics	Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje
Sort Name	Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje

 

21 years old

 

 

with Chatral Sangye Dorje

 

Kalimpong 1962

Tertön name

gter chen 'gro 'dul gling pa • གཏེར་ཆེན་འགྲོ་འདུལ་གླིང་པ་

Other names

• བདུད་འཇོམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་
• འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་

• bdud 'joms rin po che
• 'jigs bral ye shes rdo rje

Alternate names

• Dudjom Rinpoche

Dates

Birth:	1904
Death:	1987
Place of birth:	gter kong (pad+ma bkod)

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Male
Element	Wood
Animal	Dragon
Rab Jyung	15

Dates of passing

Day	17
Month	1
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Familial Relations

Father of Thinley Norbu and Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche.

Is emanation of

Dudul Dorje · Khyeuchung Lotsāwa · Dudjom Lingpa

Teachers

Rje drung phrin las byams pa 'byung gnas · 'gyur med nges don dbang po · o rgyan rnam grol rgya mtsho · 'jam dpal bde ba'i nyi ma · gling bla ma chos 'byor rgya mtsho

Students

Chatral Rinpoche · Norbu, Thinley · Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche

Biographical Information

Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche or Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje (Tib. བདུད་འཇོམས་འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. bdud 'joms 'jigs bral ye shes rdo rje) (1904-1987) — one of Tibet’s foremost yogins, scholars, and meditation masters. He was recognized as the incarnation of Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904), whose previous incarnations included the greatest masters, yogins and panditas such as Shariputra, Saraha and Khye'u Chung Lotsawa. Considered to be the living representative of Padmasambhava, he was a great revealer of the ‘treasures’ (terma) concealed by Padmasambhava. A prolific author and meticulous scholar, Dudjom Rinpoche wrote more than forty volumes, one of the best known of which is his monumental The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History. Over the last decade of his life he spent much time teaching in the West, where he helped to establish the Nyingma tradition, founding major centres in France and the United States. (Source Accessed Feb 20, 2020)

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P736

Treasury of Lives Link

http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Dudjom-Jikdrel-Yeshe-Dorje/TBRC_P736

Wiki Pages

• Dudjom Rinpoche on the DRL
• Dudjom Rinpoche on the LIB
• Dudjom Rinpoche on the RTZ
• Dudjom Rinpoche on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche or Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje (Tib. བདུད་འཇོམས་འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. bdud 'joms 'jigs bral ye shes rdo rje) (1904-1987) — one of Tibet’s foremost yogins, scholars, and meditation masters. He was recognized as the incarnation of Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904), whose previous incarnations included the greatest masters, yogins and panditas such as Shariputra, Saraha and Khye'u Chung Lotsawa. Considered to be the living representative of Padmasambhava, he was a great revealer of the ‘treasures’ (terma) concealed by Padmasambhava. A prolific author and meticulous scholar, Dudjom Rinpoche wrote more than forty volumes, one of the best known of which is his monumental The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History. Over the last decade of his life he spent much time teaching in the West, where he helped to establish the Nyingma tradition, founding major centres in France and the United States. (Source Accessed Feb 20, 2020)

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The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

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