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| − | '''[[Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྨིན་གླིང་གཏེར་ཆེན་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[smin gling gter chen 'gyur med rdo rje]]'') aka '''[[Terdak Lingpa]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gter bdag gling pa]]'') (1646-1714) — a great [[tertön]] and the founder of [[Mindroling Monastery]]. | + | '''[[Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྨིན་གླིང་གཏེར་ཆེན་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[smin gling gter chen 'gyur med rdo rje]]'') aka '''[[Terdak Lingpa]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[gter bdag gling pa]]'') (1646-1714) — a great [[tertön]] and the founder of [[Mindroling Monastery]]. |
=={{Wiki|Biography}}== | =={{Wiki|Biography}}== | ||
| − | His father was [[Sangdak Trinlé Lhundrup]] (1611-1662) and his mother was Yangchen Drolma. He was born on the tenth day of the second month of the [[Fire]] {{Wiki|Dog}} year. Together with his brother [[Lochen Dharmashri]], he played an important role in the [[transmission]] of the [[Nyingma Kama]], bringing together the Rong lineage of {{Wiki|Central Tibet}} and the [[Kham]] [[lineage]] of [[Eastern Tibet]]. The two brothers also compiled the [[terma]] collection known as the [[Döjo Bumzang]], which was a precursor of the [[Rinchen Terdzö]]. [[Terdak Lingpa]] established [[Mindroling Monastery]] in 1676. | + | His father was [[Sangdak Trinlé Lhundrup]] (1611-1662) and his mother was [[Yangchen Drolma]]. He was born on the tenth day of the second month of the [[Fire]] {{Wiki|Dog}} year. Together with his brother [[Lochen Dharmashri]], he played an important role in the [[transmission]] of the [[Nyingma Kama]], bringing together the [[Rong lineage]] of {{Wiki|Central Tibet}} and the [[Kham]] [[lineage]] of [[Eastern Tibet]]. The two brothers also compiled the [[terma]] collection known as the [[Döjo Bumzang]], which was a precursor of the [[Rinchen Terdzö]]. [[Terdak Lingpa]] established [[Mindroling Monastery]] in 1676. |
===Final Words=== | ===Final Words=== | ||
| − | His final words (Tib. {{BigTibetan|འདའ་ཀའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་}}, Wyl. ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>da' ka'i zhal chems''), which were quoted by [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] at the moment of his own [[parinirvana]] were:<br> | + | His final words (Tib. {{BigTibetan|འདའ་ཀའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་}}, [[Wyl.]] ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>[[da' ka'i zhal chems]]''), which were quoted by [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] at the [[moment]] of his [[own]] [[parinirvana]] were:<br> |
:{{BigTibetan|སྣང་གྲགས་རིག་གསུམ་ལྷ་སྔགས་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ངང༌། །}} | :{{BigTibetan|སྣང་གྲགས་རིག་གསུམ་ལྷ་སྔགས་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ངང༌། །}} | ||
| − | :'''nang drak rik sum lha ngak chökü ngang''' | + | :'''[[nang drak rik sum lha ngak chökü ngang]]''' |
| − | :May appearance, [[sound]] and [[awareness]] in the state of [[deity]], [[mantra]] and [[dharmakaya|dharmakāya]] | + | :May [[appearance]], [[sound]] and [[awareness]] in the [[state]] of [[deity]], [[mantra]] and [[dharmakaya|dharmakāya]] |
:{{BigTibetan|སྐུ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་རོལ་པར་འབྱམས་ཀླས་པས། །}} | :{{BigTibetan|སྐུ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་རོལ་པར་འབྱམས་ཀླས་པས། །}} | ||
| − | :'''ku dang yeshe rolpar jamlepé''' | + | :'''[[ku dang yeshe rolpar jamlepé]]''' |
:Merge boundlessly as the display of [[kaya|kāyas]] and [[wisdom]]s, | :Merge boundlessly as the display of [[kaya|kāyas]] and [[wisdom]]s, | ||
:{{BigTibetan|ཟབ་གསང་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་ལ། །}} | :{{BigTibetan|ཟབ་གསང་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་ལ། །}} | ||
| − | :'''zabsang naljor chenpö nyamlen la''' | + | :'''[[zabsang naljor chenpö nyamlen la]]''' |
:In the profound and secret practice of the Great [[Yoga]], | :In the profound and secret practice of the Great [[Yoga]], | ||
:{{BigTibetan|དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཐིག་ལེར་རོ་གཅིག་ཤོག །}} | :{{BigTibetan|དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཐིག་ལེར་རོ་གཅིག་ཤོག །}} | ||
| − | :'''yermé tuk kyi tikler ro chik shok''' | + | :'''[[yermé tuk kyi tikler ro chik shok]]''' |
| − | :And may they be of one {{Wiki|taste}}, indivisible with the tiklé of the [[wisdom mind]]. | + | :And may they be of one {{Wiki|taste}}, indivisible with the [[tiklé]] of the [[wisdom mind]]. |
==Students== | ==Students== | ||
| − | His students included the [[Fifth Dalai Lama]], [[Rigdzin Pema Trinlé]] of [[Dorje Drak]], [[Sakya Trizin Kunga Tashi]], his own younger brother [[Lochen Dharmashri]] and his own daughter [[Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön]]. | + | His students included the [[Fifth Dalai Lama]], [[Rigdzin Pema Trinlé]] of [[Dorje Drak]], [[Sakya Trizin Kunga Tashi]], his [[own]] younger brother [[Lochen Dharmashri]] and his [[own]] daughter [[Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön]]. |
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''The [[Nyingma School]] of [[Tibetan Buddhism]], Its Fundamentals and History'', trans. and ed. [[Gyurme Dorje]] (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), vol.1, pp.825-834 | *[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''The [[Nyingma School]] of [[Tibetan Buddhism]], Its Fundamentals and History'', trans. and ed. [[Gyurme Dorje]] (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), vol.1, pp.825-834 | ||
| − | *[[Nyoshul Khenpo]], ''A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage'', Padma Publications, 2005 | + | *[[Nyoshul Khenpo]], ''[[A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage]]'', [[Padma Publications]], 2005 |
| − | *[[Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorjee]], ''The Jewel Ladder: A Preliminary [[Nyingma]] [[Lamrim]]'', Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1990 | + | *[[Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorjee]], ''The [[Jewel]] Ladder: A Preliminary [[Nyingma]] [[Lamrim]]'', {{Wiki|Library of Tibetan Works and Archives}}, 1990 |
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:29, 8 February 2020
Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje
Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje (Tib. སྨིན་གླིང་གཏེར་ཆེན་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. smin gling gter chen 'gyur med rdo rje) aka Terdak Lingpa (Tib. གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་, Wyl. gter bdag gling pa) (1646-1714) — a great tertön and the founder of Mindroling Monastery.
Biography
His father was Sangdak Trinlé Lhundrup (1611-1662) and his mother was Yangchen Drolma. He was born on the tenth day of the second month of the Fire Dog year. Together with his brother Lochen Dharmashri, he played an important role in the transmission of the Nyingma Kama, bringing together the Rong lineage of Central Tibet and the Kham lineage of Eastern Tibet. The two brothers also compiled the terma collection known as the Döjo Bumzang, which was a precursor of the Rinchen Terdzö. Terdak Lingpa established Mindroling Monastery in 1676.
Final Words
His final words (Tib. འདའ་ཀའི་ཞལ་ཆེམས་, Wyl. 'da' ka'i zhal chems), which were quoted by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo at the moment of his own parinirvana were:
- སྣང་གྲགས་རིག་གསུམ་ལྷ་སྔགས་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ངང༌། །
- nang drak rik sum lha ngak chökü ngang
- May appearance, sound and awareness in the state of deity, mantra and dharmakāya
- སྐུ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་རོལ་པར་འབྱམས་ཀླས་པས། །
- ku dang yeshe rolpar jamlepé
- Merge boundlessly as the display of kāyas and wisdoms,
- ཟབ་གསང་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་ལ། །
- zabsang naljor chenpö nyamlen la
- In the profound and secret practice of the Great Yoga,
- དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཐིག་ལེར་རོ་གཅིག་ཤོག །
- yermé tuk kyi tikler ro chik shok
- And may they be of one taste, indivisible with the tiklé of the wisdom mind.
Students
His students included the Fifth Dalai Lama, Rigdzin Pema Trinlé of Dorje Drak, Sakya Trizin Kunga Tashi, his own younger brother Lochen Dharmashri and his own daughter Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön.
Further Reading
- Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History, trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), vol.1, pp.825-834
- Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage, Padma Publications, 2005
- Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorjee, The Jewel Ladder: A Preliminary Nyingma Lamrim, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1990
See Also
External Links
- Longer biography at Mindrolling International
- The Secret Vajra Knot: An Aspiration Prayer of the Three Yogas by Minling Terchen Rigdzin Gyurmé Dorje
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