Jikme Lingpa Timeline

Jikme Lingpa Timeline

1730

• Birth (age 1 according to Tibetan counting)

1735

• At the age of five (six according to Tibetan counting) he joins Palri Ösal Tekchen Ling

1742

• At the age of thirteen he meets Tukchok Dorje.

1744

• He becomes a novice monk at the age of 14 (15 according to Tibetan counting)

1757 Fire Ox year

• Starts first three year retreat
• Composes his first major writing, the Detailed Commentary on the Lama Gongdü
• Discovers the Longchen Nyingtik. In the evening of the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month of the Fire Ox year of the thirteenth Rabjung cycle he has his vision where he flies to the Boudha Stupa.
• One scroll was the Dukngal Rangdrol and another A Casket of Enlightened Mind, a Manual of Essential Instructions

1760

• Starts second three year retreat at Chimphu. During the retreat he has three visions of Longchenpa.
• Composes Words of the Omniscient One
• Reveals The Spontaneous Vajra Song of Fulfilment and Confession while he was staying at Samye Chimphu.
• He receives the Seventeen Nyingtik Tantras, the Vima Nyingtik, Lama Yangtik and other transmissions from Drubwang Orgyen Palgön (Shrinatha) of Mindroling Monastery.
• After his retreat his has a vision of Thangtong Gyalpo

1761 Iron Snake year

• Discovers the Sealed Quintessence.

1765

• On the tenth day of the sixth month of the Wood Monkey year he gives the empowerments and explanation of the Longchen Nyingtik for the first time to fifteen disciples.
• At the age of 34 he moves from Chimphu to Tsering Jong and founds his monastery Pema Ö Ling

1767

• Completes writing the Staircase to Akanishtha.

1771 Metal Rabbit Year

• Wrote In Praise of the New Publication of the Collected Nyingma Tantras
• "From the spring of the Metal Rabbit Year until summer of the next year I was busy with all the work concerning the publication of the precious Collected Tantras." (rnam thar, page 236)

1772

• At 43 he gathered together and commissioned the copying of the Nyingma tantras in twenty-five volumes and he composed his history of the Nyingma tantras, An Ornament which Pervades the World: A History of the Precious Collection of Tantras of the Earlier Translation School.

1786

• At 57 he visits Sakya
• Dodrupchen comes to see him.

1788

• At 60 he gave teachings to the King and Queen of Derge, Sawang Zangpo and Tsewang Lhamo, at Samye.

1789

• Writes his Discourse on India

1791

• At 62 he visits Göntse Gönpa of Tsona in Mön

1791

• At 63 Nepali forces attack Tibet and Jigme Lingpa performs ceremonies.

1794

• At 65 he and his consort have a son called Gyalse Nyinche Özer.

1795

• At the age of 65 (66 according to Tibetan counting) he reveals the Takhyung Barwa treasure.

1798

• At 69 he travels to Drikung for the enthronement of his son
• At 70 he returned to Tsering Jong
• Passes away on the third day of the ninth month of the Earth Horse year