Rigdzin Godemchen was a Nyingma treasure revealer who discovered the Jangter, or Northern Treasures. He was posthumously known as the First Dorje Drak Rigdzin after the Third Dorje Drak Rigdzin claimed to have been the reincarnation of Lekden Dorje, who was himself identified as the reincarnation of Godemchen.
According to legend, when he was eleven years old three feathery growths appeared on the top of his head; by the time he was twenty-three there were five. Because these growths looked like the feathers of a vulture, he became famous as Godkyi Demtruchen (rgod kyi ldem 'phru can), ‘the one with vulture’s feathers’, which is generally shortened to Godemchen. Later in life he became known as Rigdzin Chenpo (rig 'dzin chen po; mahāvidyādhara) and this title has been held ever since by each of his successive incarnations.
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Other names
- རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- རིག་འཛིན་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
- རྡོར་བྲག་རིག་འཛིན་གཅིག་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- rig 'dzin rgod ldem · other names (Wylie)
- rig 'dzin dngos grub rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
- rdor brag rig 'dzin gcig pa · other names (Wylie)
Affiliations & relations
- Nyingma · religious affiliation
- sna nam rdo rje bdud 'joms · emanation of
