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

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...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.10. gZhon nu rgyal po, sometimes confused with Ku ma rā dza sMyo shul mkhan po adds that Klong chen rab ’byams studied under the master gZhon nu rgyal po, which is confirmed by...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.9.2 Some difficulties concerning the chronology of the abbey succession of gSang phu In this monastery, or monastic academy, Klong chen rab ’byams was taught mainly by three masters:...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.6. bKra shis rin chen [1] When he was sixteen (1323), he received from the master Rin chen bkra shis (sMyo shul chos ’byung) or rather bKra shis rin chen (mThong ba don ldan,...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.4. Digression on Klong chen rab 'byams and the Bön One point is worth emphasizing in passing (since studies of the rDzogs chen and the rNying ma pa are often open to the Bön,...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3. The life of Klong chen rab ’byams 1.1.3.1. His family, his early childhood and his past lives He was born in the village of sTod grong, in the Grwa valley of the g.Yo-ru region,...

[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.2.3. Other sources on biography Other studies contain more or less abbreviated paraphrases of the mThong ba don ldan, and a complete translation would not add much. Here, without...