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| Drupwang Yeshe Dorje. |
ཧྲཱི༑ རབ་འབྱམས་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་གཅིག་བསྡུས་གཟུགས།
མཚོ་འཁྲུངས་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་རྨད་འབྱུང་མཐུས།
མཉམས་མེད་བླ་མ་ཡེ༵་ཤེས༵་རྡོ༵་རྗེ༵་ལ།
གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་སོ་མཆོག་ཐུན་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩོལ།
Drubwang
Kunzang Gyurme (grub dbang kun bzang ‘gyur med) aka Drubwang Yeshe Dorje, (grub
dbang ye shes rdo rje) colloquially known as Yangma Meme Lama (yangs ma me me
bla ma) (1893-1983) was born in the Khoma valley, Lhuntse district, Eastern
Bhutan in the late 19th century. When he was young he served as calculator and
astrologer or Tsidrung (rtsis drung) for Azhi Lhamo, the queen and wife of the
First King of Bhutan Gongsar Ugyen Wangchug, who later sent him to Tibet in
order to receive spiritual teachings and training.
Upon
arriving in Eastern Tibet he travelled throughout Kham and Amdo valleys and met
with numerous masters and received various teachings from great masters like
Togden Sakya shiri, Dza Peltrul Rinpoche and so on. After receiving numerous teachings
he met with his root master Khenchen Kunzang Gyamtso (mkhan chen kun bzang rgya
mtsho), where he received complete teaching of Dzogpa chenpo (the great
perfection). Khenchen Kunzang Gyamtso is one of the main disciple of Khamnyön
Dharma Senge (khams smyon dharma seng ge, d.-1890) aka Ragang Chodpa.
Withstanding various difficulties and obstacles he continuously remained with
his master for several years receiving the entire empowerment, transmissions
and instructions (dbang lung khrid gsum) according to the Dzogchen lineage of
the First Dodrupchen Rinpoche Jikme Trinle Özer (‘jigs med phrin las ‘od zer)
(1745-1821) and the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingthig (rdzogs chen klong chen snying
thig) via Khamnyön Dharma Senge (khams smyon dharma seng ge, dd-1890).
After
returning back to Bhutan he spent many years practicing in strict retreat.
Later he went to Yangma ri throd Samten Chöling Gönpa (yangs ma ri khrod bsam
gten chos gling dgon pa), near Thimyul village, Lhuntse district, where he
remained practicing and teaching for the rest of his life. Among his countless
students the main disciples are the great Dzogchen practitioners Wamakhar
Rinpoche Pema Singye, Khenrab Jamtsho aka Tsampa Tseten, Janchubling Dorje
Lopen lama Norbu, Tsampa Boedpa, Tsampa Kelzang and Tharpaling Rinpoche
Tshewang Dorji and so on. In 1983, at age ninety, Rinpoche passed away under
numerous auspicious signs and left with nemourous relics for the benefit of sentient
beings.
