The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History
Kathmandu Valley · 1991
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Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje)
Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje)
1904 CE–1987 CE · Modern · Pemakö
1904–1987 CE
Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (1904–1987 CE), was widely regarded as the head of the Nyingma school in the second half of the 20th century and as a major 'treasure-revealer' (tertön), scholar, and poet. Born in the Pemakö region of southeastern Tibet, he became, after the exodus around 1959, the principal figure organizing the Nyingma tradition in exile, founding centers in Nepal, India, and the West and writing an influential history of the Nyingma school and its teachings. He died in the Dordogne, France, in 1987. He is a thoroughly documented modern figure.
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DOCUMENTED ORIGIN: born in 1904 in the Pemakö region of southeastern Tibet and recognized as an important Nyingma incarnation (of the tertön Dudjom Lingpa) and treasure-revealer.
About Pemakö
Pemakö is a remote, sacred region of southeastern Tibet straddling the great bend of the Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) river, regarded in the Nyingma tradition as a 'hidden land' (beyul). It was the birthplace, in 1904, of Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje), who became a supreme head of the Nyingma school.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.