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Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima Series

Tibetan Masters Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima

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Miraculous emanation of Samantabhadra’s fearless primordial wisdom,

Jigme Tenpe Nyima, ‘Sun of the Teachings’, great bodhisattva,

Glorious one whose enlightened activity pervades the universe,

Supreme in learning, discipline, and goodness, to you I pray!

Texts by and about the Third Dodrupchen, Jigme Tenpe Nyima (rdo grub chen 'jigs med bstan pa'i nyi ma, 1865–1926):

Advice

This short work, written for an unnamed disciple, contains general advice on how to prepare for the moment of death.
Dying & the Bardos Advice
by Mipham Rinpoche
Mipham Rinpoche gave this text in thirty-seven verses to the Third Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima as a sealed scroll while they were both at Dzongsar Monastery. Although the precise date is unclear, it seems likely that this was in or around 1886. The text is a mixture of personal, often cryptic advice and prophecy.
Advice Prophecy
In this brief text, Jigme Tenpe Nyima explains the most important reasons for regarding the teacher as a buddha, a central tenet of the Vajrayāna.
Following a Teacher Advice
On the basis of classical sources, Jigme Tenpe Nyima warns of the dangers of sleep and drowsiness; he also offers some practical suggestions for cutting down on sleep and enhancing diligence.
Advice Sleep and Dream
A candid, somewhat comical description of what it means to take a limited and superficial approach to scholarship, which Jigme Tenpe Nyima tells us is based on his own experience.
Advice Scholasticism Notes
A very short text on the best conduct and attitude to adopt when practising in meditative retreat.
Retreat & Solitude Advice
In this very short text, Jigme Tenpe Nyima describes the best, middling and inferior ways of using pain and illness as part of the Mahāyāna path.
Sickness & Healing Advice
One of Jigme Tenpe Nyima's best known works—and indeed one the most famous Tibetan texts of recent times—this is a pithy and practical guide to integrating all experiences, good and bad, happy and sad, into the path to enlightenment. As the text itself puts it, this is “indispensable for leading a spiritual life, a most needed tool of the Noble Ones, and quite the most priceless teaching in the world.”
Mind Training (Lojong) Advice

Aspiration Prayers

These verses of aspiration to take rebirth in Amitābha's pureland of Sukhāvatī are extracted from the author's longer compilation of practices called The Easy Route to the Supreme Realm (zhing mchog bgrod pa'i bde lam).
Amitābha Sukhāvatī Aspirations
A series of aspirations to devote one's life to the Dharma—which, Dodrupchen Rinpoche says, is the only thing of any real value or meaning—to practice it with sincerity, and to accomplish it successfully.
Aspiration Prayers

Commentaries

A brief explanation of the popular ritual of incense smoke offering—or sang—detailing the visualization and describing the benefits of the practice.
Sang Offering
This short commentary on the most famous of all prayers to Guru Padmasambhava offers a simple visualization based on the very words of the Seven Lines.
Seven-Line Prayer
A simple presentation of taking refuge that identifies its objects, essence, literal meaning, subdivisions, and benefits.
Taking Refuge
This profound explanation of the individual syllables of Padmasambhava's famous Vajra-Guru Mantra is written in colloquial language that is concise and easy to understand. The text is explicitly aimed at 'town-dweller mantrins' who mistakenly confuse the fundamentals of Secret Mantra.
Mantra Guru Padmasambhava
This is the second major commentary on Yumka, the ḍākinī practice of the Longchen Nyingtik, (not including Jigme Lingpa's own writings) after the much longer and more elaborate Raṭik, which it supplements. The text begins with a discussion of the role and significance of Yeshe Tsogyal, and then proceeds to examine the practice itself, highlighting its special qualities and elaborating on many of its profound and subtle features.
Yumka Dechen Gyalmo Notes Restricted
An explanation of the final words of the great Dzogchen master Orgyen Tendzin Norbu (1841–1900): "I am Guru Padmākara of Oḍḍiyāna, a buddha free from birth and death. Awakening mind is impartial and unbiased, beyond labels of the eight stages, the four pairs."
Dzogchen Stages and Paths Testament
This unusual text, which the author playfully suggests was requested by a bouquet of flowers, discusses the qualities and benefits of floral offerings. The translation is by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche and Philip Richman.
Offering

Dedicatory Colophon Verses

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
Dedicatory colophon verses (spar byang smon tshig) for an as yet unidentified text on the Jonang tradition, possibly written by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpai Nyima (1865–1926).
Dedicatory Colophon Verses

Dzogchen

Answers to a series of questions on the distinction between ordinary mind (sem) and pure awareness (rigpa), the dissolution of dualistic perception, mindfulness in Dzogchen, the phases of dissolution at death, and how to practise Dzogchen meditation.
Dzogchen Meditation Mindfulness Dying & the Bardos Replies
This short text from Jigme Tenpe Nyima's Dzogchen corpus explains the distinction between the ordinary mind (sem) and pure awareness (rigpa), as well as the ways in which the Great Perfection is superior to other approaches.
Dzogchen Advice
A discussion of the term for main practice in Tibetan—dngos gzhi which translates literally as 'actual basis'. In response to a question, Jigme Tenpe Nyima clarifies the explanations of the four permutations of 'actual' and 'basis' from Longchenpa's Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle (theg mchog mdzod) and Jigme Lingpa's Yeshe Lama.
Dzogchen

Explanations

A short, scholarly explanation of the four noble truths, or four truths of the noble ones, providing definitions and subdivisions of each truth as well as a response to possible objections.
Four Noble Truths

Fulfilment

A short fulfilment offering for the Kagyé practice known as the Gathering of Awesome Ones (Palchen Düpa) from the Longchen Nyingtik.
Palchen Düpa Fulfilment Restricted
A supplementary fulfilment practice (bskang ba) for Siṃhamukhā, the Lion-Faced Ḍākinī, from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle.
Longchen Nyingtik Siṃhamukhā Fulfilment Siṃhamukhā Restricted
A fulfilment (bskang ba) practice to accompany the sādhana of Yumka Dechen Gyalmo, the Queen of Great Bliss, from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle.
Yumka Dechen Gyalmo Fulfilment Restricted

Guru Yoga

In twelve points, Jigme Tenpé Nyima offers detailed instructions and clarifications on The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel, the outer guru yoga practice from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle. He describes the realm of Lotus Light and its Copper-Coloured Mountain, highlights Guru Rinpoche's qualities, and stresses the importance of concentration, devotion and inspiration.
Guru Yoga Longchen Nyingtik Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Lineage Prayers

by Jigme Lingpa
A short prayer to the lineage of Palchen Düpa, the wrathful yidam practice of Longchen Nyingtik, including supplementary verses composed by the Third Dodrupchen, Jigme Tenpe Nyima.
Palchen Düpa Lineage Prayers
Jigme Tenpe Nyima composed this prayer to the gurus of the Dzogchen lineage at the behest of Khenpo Damchö Özer (d. 1927?), one of the so-called 'four great khenpos of Dodrupchen Monastery'.
Lineage Prayers Dzogchen
A prayer to the various masters of the lineage of Vidyādhara Assembly (rig 'dzin 'dus pa), the inner guru sādhana from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle revealed by Jigme Lingpa.
Lineage Prayers Rigdzin Düpa
by Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Özer
A lineage supplication for the Longchen Nyingtik practice of Siṃhamukhā, the Lion-Faced Ḍākinī, which is the secret, wrathful aspect of Yumka, including additional verses by the Third Dodrupchen.
Longchen Nyingtik Siṃhamukhā Siṃhamukhā

Long-Life Prayers

by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Khyentse Wangpo composed this three-verse longevity prayer for the Third Dodrupchen Rinpoche (1865–1926) at the same time as he bestowed upon him the name Kunzang Jigme Tenpai Nyima Trinlé Kunkhyab Palzangpo.
Long-Life Prayers

Notes

Notes on the deeper significance of various features of the vajra and bell, two ritual objects which a mantra practitioner must never be without.
Arts & Crafts

Practices

The author wrote this short ritual liturgy for consecrating sacred imagery at the request of his brother, Dzamling Wangyal (1868–1907).
Consecration
Verses for offering 'medicine' (sman), or amṛta, as part of the Rigdzin Düpa (Vidyādhara Assembly) practice from the Longchen Nyingtik.
Rigdzin Düpa Amṛta Offering
This prayer of invocation, which was written by the Third Dodrupchen Rinpoche during a period of political unrest, calls upon Guru Padmasambhava to protect Tibetans from aggressors and the ravages of war. More recently, it was redistributed at the behest of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, who recognized its continued relevance amid the turmoil of the twentieth century.
Guru Rinpoche Prayers Guru Padmasambhava Nyingma Mönlam Averting Obstacles

Praise

Verses in praise of Patrul Rinpoche (1808–1887), which Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima wrote for his own personal recitation.
Praise
These verses in praise of Rogza Sönam Palge (rog bza' bsod nams dpal dge, 1800–1884) provide a rough sketch of the master's life, including his dates. In fact, this is the only known text that specifies the years of his birth and parinirvāṇa.
Praise Biography

Prayers

A simple, four-line supplication to Tārā requesting her protection from fear and suffering in this life, the next and the bardo state.
Tārā Prayers
A simple two-verse prayer to Avalokiteśvara written at the request of a disciple from Washul, Amdo.
Avalokiteśvara Prayers
A four-line prayer to Amitābha, the Buddha of Boundless Light, aspiring to take rebirth in his blissful paradise of Sukhāvatī.
Amitābha Sukhāvatī Aspirations Prayers
A four-line prayer to Guru Padmasambhava, Longchen Rabjam and Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa.
Guru Rinpoche Prayers Guru Padmasambhava Prayers

Sādhanas

A simple, abbreviated version of the root Yumka Dechen Gyalmo sādhana, which is known as The Glorious Blissful Garland, arranged for daily practice.
Yumka Dechen Gyalmo Sādhanas Restricted

Songs

This four-verse song proclaiming victory over dualistic concepts, obstacles and other forms of interference relates to the Siṃhamukhā sādhana from the Longchen Nyingtik.
Longchen Nyingtik Siṃhamukhā Siṃhamukhā

Swift Rebirth Prayers

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
This prayer for the swift rebirth of the three masters Katok Situ Orgyen Chökyi Gyatso (1880–1925), Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpai Nyima (1865–1926) and Shechen Gyaltsab Gyurme Pema Namgyal (1871–1926) was most likely composed in March 1927.
Swift Rebirth Prayers
Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima

The Third Dodrupchen

From the murals of Shechen Monastery. Used with permission of Rabjam Rinpoche.

Name variants:

Abhaya
Jigme Tenpe Gyaltsen
Kunzang Jigme
Zhönnu Abhaya
Zhönnu Jigme

Previous incarnation(s):

Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Özer

Subsequent incarnation(s):

Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche
Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Jalü Dorje
Fifth Dodrupchen Rinpoche

Further information:

Treasury of Lives Author Bio
BDRC Author Profile (P248)

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