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

source of the illustration : http://www.khordong.de/DE/rinpoche/linie41 To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . I come to the year 1996, when Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche finally decided to give the transmissions of the Gongpa Zangthal....

To get back to the first episode of this biographical series, click here. 1.1.3.33. General remark on the masters of Klong chen rab ’byams and the intellectual and spiritual life at the beginning of the fourteenth century in Tibet About Tibetan religious...

Source of the illustration : http://www.wandel-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/PHOTO-back-web.jpg To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . One day, Rinpoche told me that one of his disciples had heavily insisted that he recognize him as...

1.1.3.32. rGyal sras Legs pa rgyal mtshan (1290-1366/67) and the mKha’ ’gro snying thig rGyal sras Legs pa was the main disciple of the gter ston Padma las ’brel rtsal, whose reincarnation Klong chen rab ’byams is considered to be. It is almost impossible...

Guru Dorjé Drolö To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . A friend of mine, who was reading the original French version of these memories and who was once a Buddhist himself before turning away (more or less) from this path, expressed...

1.1.3.31. Klong chen rab ’byams confers for the first time the consecrations of the Bi ma snying thig (1338) and obtains the texts of the mKha’ ’gro snying thig It was on the occasion of the first time when Klong chen rab ’byams gave the consecrations...

Source of the illustration: http://khordong-byangter.blogspot.fr/2016/06/tomorrow-15th-day-of-4th-tibetan-month.html To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . A reader noted in the previous episode Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche’s very blunt...

[Click here to get back to the beginning of this series.] 1.1.3.29. Ku ma rā dza and the Quintessence of Vimalamitra 1.1.3.29.1. The life of Ku ma rā dza (1266-1343) The main sources on the life of this master are as follows: (1) Rig ’dzin chen po Ku...

To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . Today, rather than giving the continuation of the “walk to the Gongpa zangthal,” I would like to report, in bulk, some “sayings” of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, most of which, as far as I remember,...

1.1.3.27. The departure of gSang phu In the biographies of Klong chen rab ’byams, what comes after the inventory of studies is the episode of the departure from gSang phu. If it is accepted that it was in 1332 that the author left this monastery, it is...