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JAMYANGKHYENTSE WANGPO: 1820–,1892

Accordingto Nyingma tradition, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo is the body incarnation of JigmeLingpa.Hebecame one of the greatest masters, in whom the lineages of all of TibetanBuddhism find their confluence. He became a prominent propagator of Nyingma,Sakya, Kagy, and other teaching lineages. He was recognized as therebirth of Jigme Lingpa (1730–,1798) by the Nyingmapas and the NesarKhyentse (1524–,?) and Thartse Champa Nanikha Chi-me by the Sakyapas. AsJigme Lingpa, he was also the manifestation of King Trisong Detsen,Vimalamitra, and many other masters. He was the master of thirteen linealorders and was regarded as one of the five kings among the hundred majortertns of the Nyingma tradition.

Hewas also known as Dorje Ziji, Pema Do-ngak Lingpa, Jigpa Mepe De, Tsokye LamaGyepe Bang, Kunkhyen Lama Gyepe Bang, Jigme Khyentse Dkar, Manjughosha,and Kn-ga Tenpe Gyaltsen.

Hewas born near Khyungchen Trak in a family of the Ny clan from the villageof Dilgo in the Tenlung Valley of Dege amid wondrous signs on the fifth day ofthe sixth month of the Iron Dragon year of the fourteenth Rabjung (1820). Hisfather was Rinchen Wangyal, an administrator of the Dege Palace, and his motherwas Snamtso, from a Mongol background.

Oncehis father asked the first Dodrupchen whether he should become a monk.Dodrupchen replied, 'Do not become a monk. If you don't become a monk andget married, a great tlku will be born among your offspring. He willbecome a great source of benefits for the Dharma and beings.'

Fromchildhood he could recall his previous lives, and Ekajati and Mahakala werevisible in forms and in energies around him to offer their protection.

Atthe age of eight he started to study Tibetan, astrology, medicine, and otherdisciplines with his father and Lamen Chtrak Gyatso. He was veryintelligent, and he perfected his recitation and writing studies without theslightest difficulty. He also understood the meanings of the profound textsmerely by reading them.

Oneday when he was seriously sick, in a vision he was given Vajrakila empowermentby Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal, and the obstructions of his life werepacified.

Atabout age eleven, he went to Kathok Monastery, and his uncle Moktiln named himJigme Khyentse Dkar, which indicated that he was the tlku of JigmeLingpa.

Attwelve, Thartse Khenpo Kn-ga Tenzin (1776–,?) recognized him as thetlku of his teacher and uncle, Ngor Thartse Khenchen Champa NamkhaChi-me, who was a great Khenpo of Ngor Monastery in Central Tibet and who thentaught and died at Lhundrup Teng in Dege. Kn-ga Tenzin named him JamyangKhyentse Wangpo Kn-ga Tenpe Gyaltsen.

Atfifteen, in a pure vision he went to Bodhgaya and was entrusted with thetreasures of the Prajnaparamitaand Anuttaratantrateachings by Manjushrimitra. In front of the Bodhgaya temple, he purified thedefilements of gross body by burning it and transforming it into a pure bodylike that of Vimalamitra.

Atsixteen, in a pure vision, he went to Zangdok Palri, and from Guru Rinpoche,with hosts of dakinis, he received the introduction to the three Buddha bodiesand the prophecy that he would become the 'receiver of seven orders'(bKa' Babs bDun). Then Guru Rinpoche and the dakinis merged into Khyentse,saying:

Maintainingthe emptiness intrinsic awareness nakedly,
Unstainedby the grasped objects or
Unpollutedby the grasper thoughts
Isthe vision of the...