འཁྲུལ་ཞིག་བློ་གྲོས་སམ། གཡུང་དྲུང་རྒྱལ་པོ། Stéphane Arguillère

There are many things I remember about Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, without necessarily being able to place them in a chronology - let’s say, logia from C. R. Lama, often at least as tasty in form as in content, notably because of his very peculiar English....

The beginning of this biography is here . 1.1.3.16. mKhan po or mKhon pa? He followed the teachings of yet another master, whom sMyo shul mkhan po calls mkhan po, the abbot. We read mkhan po ba in the mThong ba don ldan, and mKhon pa in Glag bla. mKhon...

To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . After these reflections on the “crazy wisdom” as it was constructed by Chögyam Trungpa (with a certain genius) and then used by various neo-Buddhist lamas, let’s come back to Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche,...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.15.3. gZhon nu rdo rje is also a vehicle for the transmission of the Tantra of the king creator of all things (Kun byed rgyal po) The Lo rgyus rin chen phreng ba (p. 70) does...

To get back to the start of this series, click here . A few words to try to explain in what spirit I try to report my memories of this curious figure who has left a deep imprint on my soul. First of all, I wish to make him known to those who, by force...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.14. gZhon nu rdo rje 1.1.3.14.1 Teachings received from this master The mThong ba don ldan reports that he spent six years studying at gSang phu, which brings us to 1332. It is...

The previous chapter can be read here . To get back to the start of this series, click here . A few days after the rather disconcerting interview I reported in the previous chapter, the lama’s main French translator had to go back to his duties – so I...

To get back to the start of this series, please click here . After a vague overview of the situation of Buddhism in France at the end of the 1980s, let's come back to Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche and how I got to know him. Guy Serre, mentioned in the previous...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.12. The propitiation of Acala, Sarasvatī and Vajravārāhī The various biographies mention, at this point, that in the course of his studies Klong chen rab ’byams performed propitiation...

The passage of years certainly leads me to look today with a much more critical eye at what I admired, to say the least, in my youth. Nevertheless, it is not without perplexity, or even a certain amount of wonder, that I think back today, among all the...