
The Prophecy of the 16th Karmapa | 第十六世噶玛巴的预言
In 1976, His Holiness the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje graced the opening of Urgyen Rinpoche’s new monastery called Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling in Nepal and gave a prophetic proclamation....
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In 1976, His Holiness the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje graced the opening of Urgyen Rinpoche’s new monastery called Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling in Nepal and gave a prophetic proclamation....
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Ra Lotsāwa Dorje Drak was born in 1016, in Nyenam, in a place called Nangyul, on one of the most important Nepali-Tibetan trade routes...
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Atisha is considered one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters of all time but it is his work in reviving pure Buddhism in Tibet that truly sets him apart...
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The Venerable Ajahn Chah (17 June 1918 – 16 January 1992), also known as Phra Bodhinana Thera, is considered one of the most influential and highly-revered Dharma teachers in...
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Dear special friends around the world, I am most happy to bring you this blog post about His Holiness the 10th Panchen Lama. Although I have never had the...
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Dungkar Lobzang Trinle was born in 1927 to an ordinary Tibetan family in the village of Jomo under the jurisdiction of Jomo Dzong in the Nyingtri region of Tibet...
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Following the unexpected death of the Third Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso in Mongolia in 1588, his patrons there decided to identify his reincarnation among their own people...
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Drakpa Gyeltsen was born in 1619 in Tolung Gekhasa into a noble family by the same name as the village. His family had previously produced the 25th Ganden Tripa,...
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Scholars generally agree that a renowned Indian tantric master by the name of Padmasambhava did visit and teach in Tibet in the late eighth century...
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The Third Trijang, Lobzang Yeshe Tendzin Gyatso was born on March 10, 1901, in Gungtang. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Second Trijang, Lobzang...
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The Fourth Takpu, Pema Vajra Jampel Tenpai Ngodrub, most commonly known as Takpu Dorje Chang, was born in 1876 in Naksho, Kham...
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Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso was born to a family of Nyingma practitioners in 1617 in the Yarlung Valley of Tibet, descendents of the Imperial line of the Yarlung Dynasty...
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འབྲོམ་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས། b.1004 – d.1064 Tradition: Kadam བཀའ་གདམས་པ། Geography: Tolung Dechen County སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཛོང། Historical Period: 11th Century ༡༡ དུས་རབས། Institution: Reting Monastery རྭ་སྒྲེང།; Gyelje རྒྱལ་བྱེད་དགོན། Clan: Drom འབྲོམ། Name Variants: Gyelwa Jungne རྒྱལ་...
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Sanggye Yeshe was born in the Tsang Valley in Tibet in 1525, in a town called Drukgya, the youngest of four sons. He encountered his future master, Wensapa Lobzang...
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Pema Lingpa was born in Chel Baridrang, in the Tang valley in the district of Bumtang. His father was Dondrub Zangpo of Sumtrang and his mother was Pema Dronma...
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The epithet Tsangpa Gyare signifies first that he was native to Tsang Province, and secondly, that he was a repa or ‘cotton-clad one’ belonging to the Gya clan...
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The breadth of Pema Trinle’s learning in both sutra and tantra was legendary. He practiced many teachings from the Sakya tradition, as well as his Nyingma heritage...
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Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen was born in a village called Drukgya in Tsang. As a youth he studied with Sanggye Yeshe, then the abbot of Tashilhunpo...
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The 15th Ganden Tripa, Paṇchen Sonam Drakpa was born into the family of Nangpa Ralampa that was based near the Tsetang Monastery in Lhoka in 1478...
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When the Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso died at the young age of twenty in 1875, his face is said to have turned toward the south-east, which was taken...
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Zong Lobzang Tsondru was born in Mangsang, Kham, in 1905. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Geluk master Zongtrul Tenpa Chopel...
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The Third Changkya, Rolpai Dorje was born in 1717 in the Drakkar territory of Nub Padmo De Monastery, one of four monasteries that Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen established...
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The life story of Machik Labdron has been recounted in several different Tibetan hagiographies, with considerable differences among them. According to these sources, Machik was born in 1055...
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Padampa Sanggye was probably born during the eleventh century in an area identified as the district of Kupadvipa, the province of Carasimha, the land of Bebala...
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Drapa Ngonshe was born in 1012. For five years he worked as a shepherd, and then took ordination at Samye Monastery from Yamshud Gyelwa O...
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Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa was born in the Tsongkha region of Amdo in 1357. Among the numerous miraculous incidents believed to have taken place...
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The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje was born in 1284. His father, named Chopel, is described as a Nyingma practitioner. While still a young child his parents brought him on...
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ལྕང་སྐྱ ༠༢ ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་ལྡན། b.1642 – d.1714 Incarnations: Changkya ལྕང་སྐྱ། Tradition: Gelug དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: China ཨ་མདོ། Historical Period: 17th and 18th Century ༡༨ དུས་རབས། Institution: Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Tashilhunpo བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ།; Kumbum Jampa Ling སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་...
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འཇམ་དབྱངས་ཆོས་རྗེ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན། b.1379 – d.1449 Tradition: Geluk དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Historical Period: 14th Century ༡༤ དུས་རབས། / 15th Century ༡༥ དུས་རབས། Institution: Ganden དགའ་ལྡན་།; Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Sangpu Neutok གསང་ཕུ་ནེའུ་ཐོག། Offices Held: First Throne H...
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Buton Rinchen Drub was born in 1290. He began his studies of reading and writing at age five or six under the tutorship of his mother, and continued to...
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Khedrubje Gelek Pelzang was born in Tsang in 1385. His name was given to him when he took novice ordination at the age of seven from Khenchen Sengge Gyeltsen...
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Gyeltsab Darma Rinchen was born in either 1362 or 1364, in a place called Rinang, in Nyangto, Tsang. At the age of ten he met Nenyingpa Rinchen Gyeltsen...
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Milarepa is one of the most famous individuals in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, but very little of his life is known with any historical certainty. Even the dates...
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b.early 11th cent. – d.late 11th cent. Tradition: Nyingma རྙིང་མ། Geography: Purang County སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང། Historical Period: 11th Century ༡༡ དུས་རབས། Name variants: Jangchub Dorje བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ། ; Langlab ལང་ལབ། Langlab Jangchub Dorje’s (lang lab byang chub rdo rje) life is heavily shr...
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Kelzang Gyatso was born in the region of Litang in Kham. His birth was said to have been accompanied by wonders, including the infant’s utterance of marvelous words...
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The Eighty-fifth Ganden Tripa, Lobzang Tsultrim Pelden was born in Tolung Ragkor in 1839. The names of his parents are not known, but they were said to be descended...
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The 69th Ganden Tripa, Jangchub Chopel was born in Litang in Kham in 1756. At the age of 12, his crown-hair was cut by Lama Dongnak of Sampel Ling...
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Wensapa Lobzang Dondrub was born in Lhaku in Tsang, in a place called Wensa in 1505. His father was Sonam Dorje and his mother was Pel Dzomkyi...
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The Twenty-eighth Ganden Tripa, Gendun Gyeltsen was born at Lumpa Shar in Lhasa in 1532. He was admitted to Sera Monastic University at the young age...
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The Twenty-sixth Ganden Tripa, Damcho Pelbar was born at Khangmar Shar in Ne, Tsang in 1523. He was admitted at young age to Ne Chode where he became a...
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The Second Pabongkha, Dechen Nyingpo was born in 1878 in Yutok Shar. At the age of two his mother took him to see the Eighty-first Ganden Trichen, Ngawang Norbu...
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The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso was born in the territory of Mon Tawang in March 1683. The search for the reincarnation of the Fifth Dalai Lama was conducted...
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The Twentieth Ganden Tripa, Chodrak Zangpo was born in Takpu, Uto in 1493. He was admitted at a young age in the Takpu Chode where he became a monk...
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The Eighty-first Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Norbu was born in Zungchu in Amdo. He was later said to be an emanation of Mahasiddha Sarahapa, one of the mahasiddhas of the...
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The Third Purchok Jampa Gyatso was born in the pasture land of Dzachu Aurtok in Kham. At the age of five, having been identified as the reincarnation of the...
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Jedrung Lhawang Chokyi Gyeltsen was born in 1537 in Kham. He had considerable aptitude in reading and writing, and had a strong desire to become a monk...
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Gendun Drub was born to a family of nomadic farmers in 1391 near Sakya in Tsang. According to legend, on the night he was born, the family’s camp was...
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The Twenty-first Ganden Tripa, Gelek Pelzang was born in Olkha Gyangsar in 1505, the wood-ox year of the eighth sexagenary cycle...
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The Fifth Panchen Lama, Lobzang Yeshe was born in 1663. At the age of 4, he was recognized by the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso as the reincarnation...
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Sherab Sengge was born in 1383 in a place called Gurme in Tsang. It is said that he did not like people coming to his home but that he...
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Sonam Gyatso was born in 1543 in the Kyisho region of U to a family with strong ties to the Sakya tradition and the Pakmodru rulers of Tsang...
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The Sakya master known as Muchen Sempa Chenpo Konchok Gyeltsen was born in the Mu valley of Tibet in 1388. When he was nine, he took monastic ordination with...
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The Thirtieth Ganden Tripa, Lodro Gyatso was born at Taklung Drak in Tolung in 1546. At a young age he was admitted to Kyormolung Monastery...
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The 25th Ganden Tripa, Peljor Gyatso was born into a noble family of Depa Gepa Kapa in Tolung Rampa in 1526. He was later said to be the reincarnation...
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The Thirty-fifth Ganden Tripa, Trichen Konchok Chopel was born in Dranang Gonzhol in Southern Tibet in 1573, the water-bird year of the tenth sexagenary cycle...
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Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen was born in 1235 in Ngari into the illustrious Khon family that had recently established themselves at Sakya in Tsang. His father was Sonam Gyeltsen...
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Gendun Gyatso was born in 1476 in the Tanak area of Tsang. He was born to a family of yogic practitioners who had forged a connection to his predecessor...
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