Dodrupchen, 3rd

The Third Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpai Nyima

འཇིགས་མེད་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་

1865 - 1926

The Third Dodrubchen, Jigme Tenpai Nyima was a prominent lineage holder of the Longchen Nyingtik. He was the eldest son of Dudjom Lingpa. He renovated Dodrubchen Monastery, the seat of his line established by his previous incarnation, spending the last decades of his life in near-seclusion in a hermitage nearby.
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Other names

• ཀུན་བཟང་འཇིགས་མེད་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་ཕྲིན་ལས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• རྡོ་གྲུབ་ཆེན་གསུམ་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• kun bzang ’jigs med bstan pa’i nyi ma phrin las kun khyab dpal bzang po · other names (Wylie)
• rdo grub chen gsum pa · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Son of bdud 'joms gling pa · familial relation
• Nyingma · religious affiliation
• Dodrupchen, 2nd · emanation of
• nil · teacher
• nil · student

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

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