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།
Today is 37th death anniversary of Dzogchen Master Drupwang Yeshe Dorje aka Yangma meme Lama. So I will share brief summary of his biography as follows.
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 Tshendru Lhamo aka Azhi Lemo, the queen of the First King of Bhutan Gongsar Ugyen Wangchug, who later sent him to Tibet in order to receive spiritual teachings and training.
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Statue given to Tsampa
Tsheten with lungten. |
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, speech incarnation of 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) Longchen nyingthig and yuthog nyingthig teaching. 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 at Singye Dzong, Phogteng, sangwa dhadru Sampalingdung and so on. 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.
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| Statue made from his born |
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| Root teacher of meme lama |
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| Hand writing of meme Lama. |
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| One of his main disciple Tsampa Tseten |
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| One the main disciple Lama Pema Singye |
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| View of Yangma retreat center. |
