Kunkyen Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Kunkyen Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Considered to have been an emanation of Buddha Maitreya/Jampa.
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan) was born in 1292, in the Dolpo region of present-day Nepal.
He took ordination as a novice monk in 1304 and spent the following years studying the tantras of the Nyingma tradition. In 1309 he traveled to Mustang (glo) to study the treatises on the vehicle of the perfections, epistemology, and abhidharma under the master Kyiton Jamyang Drakpa Gyeltsen (skyi ston 'jam dbyangs grags pa rgyal mtshan, d.u.).
Kyiton soon left Mustang and went to teach in the great monastery of Sakya (sa skya) in the Tsang region of Tibet, and Dolpopa followed him there in 1312.
Dolpopa received many teachings from Kyiton at Sakya, the most important of which were the Kālacakra Tantra, the Bodhisattva Trilogy (sems 'grel skor gsum), the ten Sutras on the Buddha-nature (snying po'i mdo), the five Sutras of Definitive Meaning, and the Five Treatises of Maitreya.
He became an expert in the Kālacakra tradition he received from Kyiton and served as his teaching assistant for several years. He also received teachings and initiations from other masters at Sakya, such as the Sakya throne-holder of the Khon (‘khon) family, Daknyi Chenpo Sangpo Pel (bdag nyid chen po bzang po dpal, 1262-1324).
From Kunpang Drakpa Gyeltsen (kun spangs grags pa rgyal mtshan, d.u.) he again received the Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra. From Sengge Pel (seng ge dpal, d.u.) of the Sharpa family of Sakya, he received the teachings of epistemology, and from that master’s brother, Kunga Sonam (kun dga’ bsod nams, d.u.), he received the teachings of the Lamdre (lam ‘bras) and the textual transmission of many tantras of the Hevajra cycle.
In 1314 Dolpopa traveled to many of the great monasteries of Tsang and central Tibet and received the title “Omniscient” (kun mkhyen) because of his mastery of scriptures such as the one-hundred-thousand-line sutra on the perfection of wisdom.
He also received full monastic ordination from the abbot Sonam Drakpa (mkhan chen bsod nams grags pa, d.u.) of Cholung Monastery (chos lung dgon) and made the vow to never eat slaughtered meat for the rest of his life. During this journey he received many teachings of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions, and the instructions of Chod and Zhije.
In the year 1321, when he was twenty-nine years old, Dolpopa ascended to the monastic seat (gdan sa) of Sakya Monastery. During the same year he visited Jonang Monastery (jo nang dgon) for the first time and was deeply impressed by the tradition of intense meditation emphasized there. Then he traveled to U, where he had extensive conversations with the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (karma pa rang byung rdo rje, 1284-1339), at the great Karma Kagyu monastery of Tsurpu (mtshur phu). The Karmapa significantly prophesied that Dolpopa would quickly become even more expert in the view and practice.
In 1322 Dolpopa left Sakya and went to Jonang Monastery, where he received from the master Khetsun Yonten Gyatso (yon tan rgya mtsho, 1260-1327) the complete transmission of the Kālacakra Tantra, the Bodhisattva Trilogy, and the Kālacakra completion-stage practices of the six-branch yoga.
Then he entered a meditation retreat at the Jonang hermitage of Khacho Deden (mkha’ spyod bde ldan). After this retreat, Yonten Gyatso convinced Dolpopa to teach in the assembly at Jonang, and also taught him many more systems of esoteric knowledge, such as Lamdre, the Five Stages (rim lnga) of the Guhyasamāja and the Cakrasaṃvara, Zhije and Chod.
Dolpopa then visited Sakya at the invitation of Tishri Kunga Gyeltsen (ti shrI kun dga’ rgyal mtshan, 1310-1358) of the Khon family, and offered him the Kālacakra initiation.
On returning to Jonang, Dolpopa began a strict retreat at Khacho Deden, meditating on the six-branch yoga for one year. During this time he achieved realization of the first four of the six branches, beholding immeasurable figures of the buddhas and pure lands when practicing individual withdrawal and meditation, and gaining exceptional experience and realization due to the blazing of blissful warmth when practicing breath control and retention.
During this retreat the realization of the zhentong (gzhan stong) view first arose in Dolpopa’s mind, but he would not teach it to others until at least five more years had passed.
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Lama Ngawang Lobsang Trinley, also known affectionately as Lama Lutrin or Kyabje Lama, was a highly realized Tibetan master born in 1917 in Mimdi village, nestled within the Zuka Valley of the Kham region in southeastern Tibet.
His family line was known as Achak Dri, and he was the beloved son of Kalsang Kyap and Yakshieza Tashikyi. From the very beginning, signs of his extraordinary nature were evident. The day after his birth, the great Zamngu Lama proclaimed with astonishment, “Longroma’s family has just had a child; this child is an extraordinary and highly realised being.” (‘Longroma’ was a nickname for his father, meaning “Short-Tempered.”)
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Tib name: རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང,
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Tib name: ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་སྐུ་
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Tib name: ས་མར་བླ་མ་དེ་ལོ།
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Lama Kaldan
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Monastery associate : Unknown Monastery
Tib name: རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་ཡོན་བརྟན་བཟང་པོ།
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Lineage : Jonang
Monastery associate : Dzamthang Tsangwa Monastery
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Thanthan Lama
Lineage : unsure: Unsure
Monastery associate : Unknown Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས
Khenpo Jigme Phuntsog
Lineage : unsure: Unsure
Monastery associate : Unknown Monastery
Tib name: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨ་ཁུ་དགོད་པོ།
Aku Gopo
Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen
Monastery associate : Denong Monastery
Tib name: ཨ་ཀུ་དགེ་ཁོ།
Aku Geko
Lineage : Gelug
Monastery associate : Kirti Monastery
Tib name: ཤུག་ཆུང་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ།
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Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen
Monastery associate : Shugchong Monastery
Tib name: མཁའ་འགྲོ། ཏ་རེ་ལྷ་མོ།
Tare Lhamo
Lineage : Nyingma
Monastery associate : Nyanlang Monastery
Tib name: བླ་མ་ལོང་ཚེར།
Lama Longtser
Lineage : Sakya
Monastery associate : Dewu Monastery
Tib name: བླ་མ་བཤད་པ།
Akushabha
Lineage : Sakya
Monastery associate : Raktsa Monastery
Tib name: ཇོ་ནང་སྐྱབ་མགོན་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆོག
HH Jonang Kyabgon Chogtrul Jigme Dorje
Lineage : Jonang
Monastery associate : Dzamthang Tsangwa
Tib name: རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་བློ་བཟང་འཕྲིན་ལས།
Lama Lobsang Trinley
Lineage : Jonang
Monastery associate : Tashi Chöthang Monastery
Sagang Khenpo
Lineage : Sakya
Monastery associate : Thubten Tashi Gephel Ling Monastery
Tib name: གཟན་དཀར་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Zankar Tulku Jampchup Dorje
Lineage : Kagyu
Monastery associate : Yuthök Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་ཤེས་སྟན
Lama Zharten
Lineage : Jonang
Monastery associate : Doli Doka Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་ཕུན་ཚོགས།
Khenpo Phuntsok
Lineage : Kagyu
Monastery associate : Yuthök Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་འཇམ་སེར།
Khenpo Jamser
Lineage : Kagyu
Monastery associate : Yuthök Monastery
Tib name: རྡོ་གྲུབ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཐུབ་པ།
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Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen
Monastery associate : Drupchen Monastery Tibet
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Tulku Karma Sonam
Lineage : Kagyu
Monastery associate : Yuthök Monastery
Tib name: མུག་ཡང་མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
Mukyang Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim
Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen Nyingtik
Monastery associate : Dongzang Monastery
Tib name: བླ་མ་ཀུན་རྒྱམ།
Lama Kunkyam
Lineage : Nyingma - Kathok
Monastery associate : Denong Monastery
Tib name: ཀློ་བླ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཀ་དག
Tulku Katag
Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen Nyingtik
Monastery associate : Denong Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་སངས་རྟན།
Khenpo Sangten
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Monastery associate : Denong Monastery
Tib name: རྟ་བ་བླ་མ་རྣམ་གྲོལ།
Tawa Khenpo Jigme Namdrol
Lineage : Nyingma - Kathok
Monastery associate : Tharthang
Tib name: བློ་མ་བློ་རྒྱམ།
Lama Logyam
Lineage : Nyingma - Kathok
Monastery associate : Denong Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་བློ་ཚུལ།
Khenpo Lotsul
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Monastery associate : Tharthang Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་འོད་ལྡན།
Khenpo Öden
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Monastery associate : Tharthang Monastery
Tib name: རྒྱ་སྒོ་བླ་མ་ངག་བློས།
Gyago Lama Ngaklu
Lineage : Jonang
Monastery associate : Jonang Shol Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་ཆེན་ཤེས་རབ་གསལ་བྱེད།
Khenpo Sherab Saljay
Lineage : Jonang
Monastery associate : Jamdha Monastery
Khenpo Jigten
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Monastery associate : Tharthang Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་ཨ་ཁུ་བློ་བརྟན།
Khenpo Arik Lothen
Lineage : Gelug
Monastery associate : Kirti Monastery
Tib name: དཀར་རྒྱ་ལུང་རིགས།
Kyagya Longrik
Lineage : Gelug
Monastery associate : Kirti Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་ཨ་ཁུ་ཐབས་མཁས་སང་།
Khenpo Aki Tamchösang
Lineage : Gelug
Monastery associate : Kirti Monastery
Tib name: མཁན་པོ་བློ་བཟང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Monastery associate : Tharthang Monastery
Tib name: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་བློ་བཟང་ནོར་བུ།
Tulku Lobsang Norbu Tharthang
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Monastery associate : Tharthang Monastery
Tib name: དམར་དབང་སྤྲུལ་སྦྱིན་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Marwan Tulku Jinpa Gyatso
Lineage : Gelug
Monastery associate : Kirti Monastery
Tib name: ཨ་ཁུ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Aku Lodrö Gyamsto
Lineage : Gelug
Monastery associate : Kirti Monastery
Tib name: ཨ་ཁུ་འཇིགས་རྒྱམ།
Aku Jigyam
Lineage : Gelug
Monastery associate : Kirti Monastery
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A respected lay practitioner, known for integrity and devotion to the Dharma.
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A woman of quiet strength and faith, whose care nurtured the early life of the Rinpoche.
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