Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Timeline

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Timeline

Water Dragon 1892

• Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo passes into parinirvana.

Iron Dog 1910 (birth)

• 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 9)

• summer of 1919: meets Adzom Drukpa.

Monkey 1920 (aged 10)

• travels to Jeykundo and receives a commentary on Introduction to the Middle Way from Khenpo Shenga.

Fire Tiger 1926 (aged 16)

• 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 17)

• 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.

1937 (aged 27)

• stays for about two months in Dzongsar, receiving the reading transmission of the Hundred Thousand Nyingma Tantras and the Treasury of Profound Termas from Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.

Wood Bird 1945 (aged 35)

• receives the empowerments and transmissions of the Treasury of Precious Termas from Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö in Dzongsar.

Fire Dog 1946 (aged 36)

• receives the Treasury of Precious Instructions from Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö in Dzongsar.

Earth Pig 1959 (aged 49)

• Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö passes into parinirvana, in Sikkim.

1982 (aged 72)

• 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.

1984 (aged 74)

• summer of 1984: teaches in France, at La Sonnerie, on Longchen Nyingtik guru yoga.

1985 (aged 75)

• first return to Tibet; visits Lhasa, Samye, Mindroling, Sakya and Tsurphu in central Tibet, as well as Shechen Monastery, and other places in Kham.

1987 (aged 77)

• May: visits England.
  • 20th of May: gives empowerments 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.

1988 (aged 78)

• second trip to Tibet; stays three months in Dergé.

1990 (aged 80)

• 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 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.

1991 (aged 81)

• passes into parinirvana, in Bhutan.

1993

• birth of Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche aka Ugyen Tenzin Jigme Lhundrup.