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| Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa |
༄༅། མཁྱེན༵་པས་ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་གྱི་དེ་ཉིད་གཟིགས།
ཐུགས་བརྩེ༷འི་འོད༵་ཟེར༵་གདུལ་བྱའི་དཔལ་དུ་ཤར།
ཟབ་ལམ་ཐེག་རྩེའི་བསྟན་པ་གསལ་མཛད་པ།
རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ། །
At the age of six he entered into Palri monastery
and Tsogyal Tulku Ngawang Lobzang Pema gave him a name Pema Khyentse Ozer. He
is born learned, where he has no difficulty in learning. Besides of receiving
transmissions and empowerment, he is also became mastered in grammar, logic,
astrology, poetry, history and medicine within short period of time. Rigdzin
Jigme Lingpa has received teachings, empowerments and transmissions from
various masters such as Neten Kunzang Ozer, Terton Rigdzin Thukchok Dorje,
Thekchen Lingpa Droten Tharchin and Drubwang Ogyen Palgon.
At the age of 28, he begin his three years strict
retreat at Pelri monastery and during his meditative stages, he experienced numerous
physical and mental sign of attainments. He also had vision of different
masters including Guru Rinpoche, Yeshey Tshogyal, Manjushrimitra and Humkara. Moreover
at the age of 31 he had vision of Longchen Rabjam for three times and received every
teachings within short duration.
He composed his first major writing Khyentse Melong Ozer gawa - the explanation on Lama Gongdue cycle. In vision Guru
Rinpoche gave him name Pama wangchen and Manjushrimitra gave him blessings,
then he changed is maroon color dress to uncolored white dress with uncut long
hair after realizing symbolic meaning of wisdom.
At the age of Thirty eight, he discovered extraordinary
relaxation of Longchen Nyingthig cycle the teaching of Guru Rinpoche as mind
ter. In the evening of 25th day of tenth month of fire Ox year
(1757), he went to bed with devotion to Guru Rinpoche and full of tears on his
face as he was not in Guru Rinpoche’s Presence. Then he kept on meditation
stage for so long and experienced he was flying with white lion and finally
reached to stupa of Jarung khashor, where wisdom dakini
offered him wooden casket and said this is Samantabhadra’s mind treasure and
dakini vanished. Then he opened with joy and found five roll of yellow scroll
and seven crystal beads – one is Dug nga Rangdrol, another one is Nechang Thukkyi Drombu the guide of Longchen Nyingthig. He swallow all yellow
and crystal beads, which experienced all the words of Longchen Nyingthig cycle with meanings were
awakened in his mind. Hence he became terton of Longchen Nyingthig cycle of teaching.
At the age of 31 during his 2nd
three years retreat at chimphu, the high realization of
Dzogpachenpo was awakened in him. It was caused due to three vision of
KuenKhyen Longchen Rabjam and received all the empowerment and transmission. Then
he composed Kuenkhyen zhallung and some other writings as the true meaning of
seven treasures of Longchen Rabjam.
Although Jigme Lingpa has many teachers, the
absolute and short line transmission of Nyingma teaching comes from Longchen
Rabjam directly in the three pure visions.
Latter in 1765, Jigme Lingpa conferred the empowerments and explanation
of Longchen Nyingthig cycle for 15 disciples. He has benefited a lot for
Nyingma tradition and his Longchen Nyingthig cycle became famous practice and
reach to every corner of the Nyingma world. Once Dodrupchen came to receive
teaching from him and he recognize Dodrupchen as trulku of Lhase Murum Tsenpo and named Jigme Trinle Ozer.
Then Gomchen Rigdzin and Pema Kunzang reach to receive teaching and Pema
Kunzang latter became his renown disciple Jigme Gyalwe Nyuku. At the age of
sixty five, he and his consort Gyalyum Drolkar had son called Gyalse Nyenche Ozer.
He had received countless invitations for
empowerment and teachings including invitation from Mongolian King Chogyal
Ngawang Dargyal, student of Dodrupchen and teacher of Zhabkar Tsoktrul
Rangdrol. However he couldn’t accept every invitations that they made due to
his old age and health situation. Although Jigme Lingpa knew his son is trulku,
he didn’t recognized as trulku but latter Sakya Trichen recognized him as tulku
of Chokyi Nyima the fourth Chungsang one of the head of Drikung Kagyu
Tradition.
Jigme Lingpa has told in private to some of his
close disciples that, he will be dying soon and he will reincarnate but no need
to search for his incarnation. The rain of flower falls on his residence and mild
earthquake again and again. On the 3rd day of nine month of earth
horse year (1798), the sky is clear with blue color and rain falls from blue
sky and ask to arrange new offering in alter. Then he sat in sage posture and
lots of miracles happened. After a month of Ceremony, his body was placed in small
golden stupa at Tsering Jong Hermitage.
His incarnation includes:
1. Doknentse Yeshe Dorje. (1800-1866)- Body incarnation.
2. Paltrul Rinpoche (1808-1887) – Speech incarnation.
3. Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820-1892) – mind incarnation.
Jigme Lingpa was born with full of miracles and
auspicious signs but kept all hidden and live with simple life. He has letter
AH on his trooth, letter HYA on his thumb, vajra design at his heart, ritual
bell at is navel and came lots of ringsel’s from his truth and hair but all
kept it hidden and live simple life.
