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'''[[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] Timeline

==Water Dragon 1892==
*[[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] passes into [[parinirvana]].

==Iron Dog 1910 (birth, aged 1<ref>According to Tibetan custom, during the first months of a person's life, that person is considered to be one year old, until the next Tibetan New Year ([[Losar]]), when they turn two. This timeline reflects this Tibetan custom.</ref>)==
*third day of the third Tibetan month: birth in Denkok Valley, [[Dergé]] region of [[Kham]], while a [[tsok]] offering was being held on the occasion of [[Mipham Rinpoche]]'s successful explanation of the detailed [[Kalachakra]] Vajra Tantra commentary.

==Earth Sheep 1919 (aged 10)==
*summer of 1919: meets [[Adzom Drukpa]].

==Monkey 1920 (aged 11)==
*travels to Jeykundo and receives a commentary on ''[[Introduction to the Middle Way]]'' from [[Khenpo Shenga]].

==Wood Ox 1925 (aged 16)==

==Fire Tiger 1926 (aged 17)==
*receives from Lama Jamyang Trakpa: the oral transmission of the ''[[Seven Treasuries]]'', ''Trilogy of Natural Ease'', ''[[Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions]]'' and ''Tantric Overview'', along with the table of contents written by Shedrup Pandita.
*fifth month: passing away of his root master [[Shechen Gyaltsab Gyurme Pema Namgyal]].

==Fire Rabbit 1927 (aged 18)==
*receives from Lama Jamyang Trakpa: the empowerment and reading transmission of ''Tsa Sum Dril Drup'', and a blessing of the ''Five-Deity Kurukulle'' contained in the ''[[Compendium of Sadhanas]]''.
*enters retreat in Denkok.

==Fire Horse 1930 (aged 21)==
*receives teachings from Kunga Palden Rinpoche.

==Water Monkey 1932 (aged 23)==
*10th day of the seventh month: [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]] recognizes the fourth incarnation of Gyaltsap Choktrül.
*10th month: Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's father, Tashi Tsering, passes away.

==Water Bird 1933 (aged 24)==
*10th month: establishes an annual [[Vajrasattva]] [[drupchen]] for the anniversary of his father's death.

==Wood Dog 1934 (aged 25)==
*falls seriously ill, and takes a consort, Khandro Lhamo (1913-2003).

==Wood Pig 1935 (aged 26)==
*third month: writes a guru sadhana of [[Saraha]] while staying below Marong Drungtrul, on his way to  see [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]] in [[Dzongsar]].

==1936 (aged 27)==
*stays for about two months in [[Dzongsar]], receiving the reading transmission of the ''[[Nyingma Gyübum]]'' and of the ''[[Treasury of Precious Termas]]'' from [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]].

==Fire Ox 1937 (aged 28)==

==Earth Tiger 1938 (aged 29)==
*goes to [[Benchen Monastery]]

==Water Horse 1942==
==Water Sheep 1943 (aged 34)==
*birth of his second daughter who receives the name Dechen Wangmo from Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.

==Wood Monkey 1944 (aged 35)==
*second month: goes to Palpung.

==Wood Bird 1945 (aged 36)==
*receives the empowerments and transmissions of the ''[[Treasury of Precious Termas]]'' from [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]] in [[Dzongsar]]. 

==Fire Dog 1946 (aged 37)==
*early summer: receives the reading transmission of the ''Collected Works'' of [[Taranatha]].
*late autumn: goes to [[Surmang Monastery]]

==Fire Pig 1947==

==Earth Mouse 1948==


==Earth Ox 1949==

==Iron Tiger 1950==

==Iron Hare 1951==


==Water Dragon 1952==

==Water Snake 1953==

==Wood Horse 1954==


==Wood Sheep 1955 (age 46)==
*leaves for [[Lhasa]].
*visits [[Tsurphu]]
*death of his sister
*death of his brother Shedrup
*visits [[Mindroling]]

==Fire Monkey 1956==
*returns to Lhasa

==Fire Bird 1957==


==Earth Dog 1958==
*returns to Lhasa
*flees to Bhutan

==Earth Pig 1959 (aged 50)==
*6th day of the 5th month, the 12th June 1959: [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]] passes into [[parinirvana]], in Sikkim.

==1976 (aged 67)==
First visit to the West 
*February: visits the UK. Teaches and gives [[empowerment]]s in London on February 22nd. Blesses [[Sogyal Rinpoche]]'s London centre in its future location.
*March: Dilgo Khyentse is invited for 2 weeks to a house in Brooklyn by [[Chögyam Trungpa]]'s Dharmadhatu group. [[Dezhung Rinpoche]] stays in the same house for 7 days. Khyentse Rinpoche gives [[Chetsun Nyingtik]] to [[Chögyam Trungpa]] and about 50 of his students. [[Dezhung Rinpoche]] receives a long-life empowerment from the Chokling Thubs sgrub cycle and an initiation for [[Manjushri]]. [[Dezhung Rinpoche]] offers Dilgo Khyentse a long life empowerment in the tradition of the [[Sakya]]pas and the [[Sakya Pandita]]-Manjushri guru yoga sadhana by [[Gatön Ngawang Lekpa]]. Dilgo Khyentse reminds [[Dezhung Rinpoche]] of [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]]'s request 20 years before that [[Dezhung Rinpoche]] write a supplement to the biography of [[Gatön Ngawang Lekpa]] and formally requests him to write it, too.  Dilgo Khyentse said:" if you do not set it down in writing, the secret biography of Gatön will be lost. Please write it down!" (As described in David Jackson, Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003)
*visits H.H. [[Sakya Dagchen Rinpoche]] at Sakya Monastery in Seattle

==Iron Monkey 1980 (age 71)==
*While at [[Paro Taktsang]] has a vision of [[Jikmé Lingpa]] who empowers him as a holder of the [[Longchen Nyingtik]].
*April-March: visits France. Between the 20th and 29th April, Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (with [[Sogyal Rinpoche]]) gives teachings in Paris on "The Good Heart" and [[Tsik Sum Ne Dek]], gives an empowerment of [[Rigdzin Düpa]] on the 24th, a lung of the ''Guru Yoga of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö'' on 25th April, and teaches on the [[Dzogchen]] Lineage on the 27th. He also gives the [[Refuge]] Vows at the end of March.
*The construction of Shechen Tennyi Dargyelin Monastery begins in [[Boudhanath]], Nepal.

==Water Dog 1982 (aged 73)==
*May: visits England. Teaches at the Friends House in London on the 12th and at Rigpa's centre [[St Paul’s Crescent]] on the 14th and 15th. 

==Wood Mouse 1984 (aged 75)==
*summer of 1984: teaches in France, at La Sonnerie, on [[Longchen Nyingtik]] [[guru yoga]], and at Rigpa's summer retreat, which was held at nearby Thonac (see [[La Castillanderie 1984]]).

==Wood Ox 1985 (aged 76)==
*first return to Tibet; visits Lhasa, Samye, Mindroling, Sakya and Tsurphu in central Tibet, as well as Shechen Monastery, and other places in Kham.

==Fire Rabbit 1987 (aged 78)==
*May: visits England. 
**20th of May: gives [[empowerment]]s of [[Guru Rinpoche]] and [[Rigdzin Düpa]] at [[St Paul’s Crescent]], in London. 
*June:
**visits Shambhala centres in North America: presides over [[Chögyam Trungpa]]'s cremation ceremony and gives teachings at Karma Dzong, in Boulder, Colorado, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
**end of June: visits England again; teaches on two occasions at St Paul’s Crescent, in London, commenting on ''[[Tsik Sum Ne Dek]]'', ''[[Shyitro]]'', ''[[Vima Nyingtik]]'', ''[[Khandro Nyingtik]]'' and [[Vajrakilaya]]. Also gives a teaching at the Friend’s Meeting House on the [[nature of mind]].

==Earth Dragon 1988 (aged 79)==
*second trip to Tibet; stays three months in Dergé.

==Iron Horse 1990 (aged 81)==
*summer of 1990: final, historic visit to Europe and to France. After a month at his seat in Dordogne in southwest France, he taught at the invitation of [[Sogyal Rinpoche]], at [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]]’s summer retreat, held that year in [[Prapoutel]].
*final visit to Tibet; consecrates the newly renovated temple of [[Samye]], visits [[Lhasa]], [[Tsurphu]] and [[Reting]].

==Iron Sheep 1991 (aged 82)==
*19th day of the 8th Tibetan month: passes into [[parinirvana]], in Bhutan.

==Water Bird 1993==
*10th day of the fifth Tibetan month (30 June): birth of [[Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche]] aka Ugyen Tenzin Jigme Lhundrup.

==Iron Tiger 2010==
*third day of the third Tibetan month (17 April?): 100th anniversary of Khyentse Rinpoche’s birth

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