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

Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche with all kinds of personalities, including Pope John XXIII. Photo taken from the Facebook page KHORDONG WORLDWIDE To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . If I had known, when I began to write down these few memories,...

Guru ’Od gsal rang grol: what is known about him comes from the few pages that sMyo shul mkhan po devotes to him (op. cit., p. 87-91). Born in g.Yor po gzhung, he became in his ninth year the disciple of a paradoxical yogin. Then he received the minor...

Source of the illustration : Page Facebook KHORDONG WORLDWIDE. To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . There were a number of working sessions with Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, but not so many. For example, he once asked me to come to Poland...

1.1.3.37. Klong chen rab ’byams’ Main disciples In the sMyo shul chos ’byung (p. 345), we find the following list: first, three disciples who were both learned and spiritually accomplished (mkhas grub): Khyab brdal lhun grub (the heir of the lineage),...

Source of the illustration: Facebook page KHORDONG WORLDWIDE. To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . I like this photo which, more than many others, reminds me of Chhimed Rigdzin as I knew him. This is exactly the expression he could...

And yet, [now gathering] crowds of fortunate beings applying their efforts to what is deserving, whether many or few, three thousand or a hundred, he indifferently opened [all] the doors of the Dharma, according to the degree of understanding of each...

To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . I don’t know who is the author of the picture I put in the illustration and that I borrowed from the Facebook page “KHORDONG WORLDWIDE.” What is certain is that it is the first photo of CRR that...

Photo of C. R. R. at about the age of 20, found in the book Oracles and Demons of Tibet (1956) by Nebesky-Wojkowitz, to whom R. served (among others) as an informant. The photo has obviously been retouched: it is much clearer than the one in the book...

1.1.3.36. The return to central Tibet and the last years For Samten Karmay, not much time passed between Klong chen rab ’byams’ return to central Tibet and his death. The colophon of the History of the Dharma (Chos ’byung) attributed to Klong chen rab...

1.1.3.35. Exile in Bhutan It is not surprising, therefore, that Klong chen rab ’byams had to go into exile in Bhutan when his patron Kun rin’s position collapsed. Guenther places the exile at Bum thang in 1359, at the time when sGom chen Kun rin of ’Bri...

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

Continuation and end of my memories of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, No. 19: travel to Bhutan, India, and Nepal from 1998-99, etc., until his death in 2002

A Biography of Longchen Rabjam (25) : The Main Disciples (second part)

Continuation of my memories of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, no. 18: the time of the translation of Tülku Tsullo's Gongpa Zangthal Manual, continued

A Biography of Longchen Rabjam (24) : The Main Disciples (first part)

Continuation of my memories of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, No. 17: the translation of Tülku Tsullo's Gongpa Zangthal Manual (Part I)

A biography of Longchen Rabjam (23)

Continuation of my memories of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, no. 16: what passes from master to disciple

Continuation of my memories of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, #15

A Biography of Klong chen rab ’byams (22)

A Biography of Klong chen rab ’byams (21)