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    Monday, November 23, 2009

    Gurus of the Lineage - pt. 10

    22.  Dola Jigme Kalsang
    http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Dola_Jigme_Kalzang
    An important master in the Longchen Nyingthig lineage.

    23. Jigme Tenpey Nyima, the 3rd Dodrupchen Rinpoche
    http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Dodrup_Tenpey_Nyima
    An important master in the Longchen Nyingthig lineage. His father was Dudjom Lingpa.

    24.  Do Khyentse Yehe Dorje (1800-1866)
        http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Do_Khyentse_Yeshe_Dorje
    A great master and tertön who was the mind emanation of Jigme Lingpa.

    25. Jigme Phuntsok Jungne  (1820-1892)
    http://www.lotsawahouse.org/jkw.html

    Jigme Phuntsok Jungne was born in the region of Yaru Khyungchen Drak in Dilgo in Derge, East Tibet, on the fifth day of the sixth Tibetan month of the Iron Dragon year during the fourteenth sexagenary cycle.

    Also know as Jamyang Khyentse, he learnt to read at the age of four or five, and from an early age his intelligence grew so keen he was able to master reading, writing and other skills without any difficulty. At twelve, he was recognized by Thartse Khenchen Jampa Kunga Tendzin as the incarnation of the great khenpo of Evam Tharpatse, Jampa Namkha Chimé, and he was given the name Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo Kunga Tenpé Gyaltsen Palzangpo. At twenty-one, he received full ordination from Minling Khenchen Rigdzin Zangpo. In all, he had more than one hundred and fifty teachers, who were great masters from all four major schools—Sakya, Gelug, Kagyü and Nyingma—from the regions of Ü and Tsang, as well as eastern Tibet, including Minling Trichen Gyurme Sangye Kunga, Shechen Gyurme Thutob Namgyal, Sakyapa Dorje Rinchen[2] and the great khenpo brothers of Thartse, as well as many other exponents of the scriptures learned in the five sciences.

     Through his studies in the ordinary sciences of craft, medicine, grammar and logic, and the various secondary disciplines, as well as the major treatises of the causal vehicle of characteristics on Madhyamika, Prajñaparamita, Vinaya and Abhidharma, and the profound instructions of the tantras such as Chakrasamvara, Hevajra and Guhyasamaja, as well as the Guhyagarbha and the Kalachakra and other tantras of the resultant vehicle of Secret Mantra, he dispelled any doubts and misconceptions.

    With the offerings he received from devoted disciples, he commissioned the crafting of around two thousand statues of the Buddha, made from gold and copper, as representations of the Buddha’s enlightened body. As representations of enlightened speech, he commissioned the carving of woodblocks for almost forty volumes of texts and was responsible for around two thousand volumes being copied out by hand. As representations of the Buddha’s enlightened mind, he commissioned the construction of more than a hundred stupas in gold and copper, the foremost of which was the great stupa at Lhundrup Teng.

    http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/2009/11/poster-post.html