Dudjom Rinpoche was a towering figure in twentieth-century Tibetan religion—one of the main preservers of the Nyingma tradition in exile and the first Nyingma representative in the exile government. He gave a series of major Nyingma empowerments in the early 1960s and composed the lengthy History of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism in 1964. He was a primary holder of the Dudjom Tersar tradition, based on the revelations of his prior incarnation, Dudjom Lingpa. ... read more at
Other names
བདུད་འཇོམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
bdud 'joms rin po che · other names (Wylie)
'jigs bral ye shes rdo rje · other names (Wylie)
Dudjom Rinpoche · other names
Affiliations & relations
Father of Thinley Norbu and Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche. · familial relation
Rje drung phrin las byams pa 'byung gnas · teacher
'gyur med nges don dbang po · teacher
o rgyan rnam grol rgya mtsho · teacher
'jam dpal bde ba'i nyi ma · teacher
gling bla ma chos 'byor rgya mtsho · teacher
Chatral Rinpoche · student
Norbu, Thinley · student
Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche · 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་
