Chokgyur Lingpa was one of the most prolific treasure revealers of the nineteenth century. Based in Kham, he was a close collaborator with Jamgon Kongtrul and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, with whom he revealed treasure and opened sacred sites. Among his best-known revelations are the Barche Kunsel, the Zabpa Kor Dun, and the Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo, for which Jamgon Kongtrul wrote a famous commentary. Chokgyur Lingpa also revealed an enumeration of great sites in Khams that had a significant impact on the sacred geography of the region. He established two monastic centers, Tsike and Netan, seats of the Tsike and Neten lines of his reincarnation.
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Tantra and Buddha-Nature
Though the theory of buddha-nature is more readily associated with certain Mahāyāna sūtras and related treatises, such as the Ratnagotravibhāga, in the Tibetan tradition there also developed a strong association between this concept and the Vajrayāna. For instance, terms like tathāgatagarbha and sugatagarbha also appear in tantric literature, and in the Jonang tradition Dolpopa's development of his famed view of other-emptiness (zhentong) was directly linked with a profound realization he attained through his practice of the Kālacakra Tantra. For the Kagyu, the Ratnagotravibhāga has long since been described as a "bridge between sūtra and tantra," and for the Nyingma sugatagarbha is commonly used throughout much of the revealed tantric corpus of its treasure tradition. There are even proxy terms for buddha-nature used in tantric literature, such as the causal continuum (rgyu'i rgyud), which at the level of Highest Yoga Tantra is symbolized by the syllabic compound Evam, representing the bliss of union. Even the notion of luminosity, often rendered literally as "clear light" in translations of Tibetan tantric works, can be taken as analogous to descriptions of buddha-nature restructured to conform to the methodologies of tantric praxis. Therefore, buddha-nature remained a crucial concept for the Tibetan Vajrayāna traditions in which it found expression in a variety of literary forms—some of them familiar and others more in tune with the esoteric nature of tantra.
Other names
- མཆོག་གྱུར་བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- mchog gyur bde chen gling pa · other names (Wylie)
Affiliations & relations
- Nyingma · religious affiliation
- lha sras dam 'dzin mu rub btsan po · emanation of
- 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po · teacher
- 'jam mgon kong sprul · teacher
- Karmapa, 14th · teacher
- Dzogchen Drubwang, 4th · teacher
- Pawo Rinpoche, 8th · teacher
- 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po · student
- 'jam mgon kong sprul · student
- Mkhan chen bkra shis 'od zer · student
- tshe dbang grags pa · student
- rin chen dar rgyas · student
- 'jigs med tshe dbang nor bu · student
- Rgyal ba g.yung drung bstan 'dzin · student
- Dpal sprul rin po che · student
