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'''Ratna Lingpa''' (Tib. རཏྣ་གླིང་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rat+na gling pa'') (1403-1478) — a Tibetan [[tertön]], who compiled the [[Nyingma Gyübum]], ''Collected Tantras of the Nyingmapas'' in the fifteenth century. He is also known by the names of '''Shikpo Lingpa''' (''zhig po gling pa'') and '''Drodul Lingpa''' ('''gro 'dul gling pa''), because during his single lifetime he revealed the destined [[terma]]s of three different lifetimes. | '''Ratna Lingpa''' (Tib. རཏྣ་གླིང་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rat+na gling pa'') (1403-1478) — a Tibetan [[tertön]], who compiled the [[Nyingma Gyübum]], ''Collected Tantras of the Nyingmapas'' in the fifteenth century. He is also known by the names of '''Shikpo Lingpa''' (ཞིག་པོ་གླིང་པ་, ''zhig po gling pa'') and '''Drodul Lingpa''' (འགྲོ་འདུལ་གླིང་པ་, ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>gro 'dul gling pa''), because during his single lifetime he revealed the destined [[terma]]s of three different lifetimes. | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 15:28, 15 July 2012
Ratna Lingpa (Tib. རཏྣ་གླིང་པ་, Wyl. rat+na gling pa) (1403-1478) — a Tibetan tertön, who compiled the Nyingma Gyübum, Collected Tantras of the Nyingmapas in the fifteenth century. He is also known by the names of Shikpo Lingpa (ཞིག་པོ་གླིང་པ་, zhig po gling pa) and Drodul Lingpa (འགྲོ་འདུལ་གླིང་པ་, 'gro 'dul gling pa), because during his single lifetime he revealed the destined termas of three different lifetimes.
Further Reading
- Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Wisdom Publications, 1991, vol. 1, pp. 793-795
