Dudjom Lingpa
Dudjom Lingpa (Tib. བདུད་འཇོམས་གླིང་པ་, Wyl. bdud 'joms gling pa) aka Chakong Tertön (ལྕགས་སྐོང་གཏེར་སྟོན, lcags skong gter ston) (1835-1904) — a great adept and tertön whose terma revelations fill twenty volumes. He was considered to be the emanation of Khye'u Chung Lotsawa, one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche. His immediate incarnation, born even before he himself passed away, was Dudjom Rinpoche.
His Sons
He was the father of eight important tulkus:
- Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima (1865-1926), an incarnation of Dodrupchen Jikmé Puntsok Jungné
- Tulku Pema Dorje (1867-1934), an incarnation of Dragyur Marpo Lotsawa. Tulku Pema Dorje's tulku is Tulku Theglo Rinpoche
- Khyentse Tulku Dzamling Wangyal (1868/9-1907), an incarnation of Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje, father of Dzongter Kunzang Nyima, and grand father of Tulku Theglo Rinpoche
- Namtrul Mipham Dorje, tulku of Cheyö Rigdzin Chenmo aka (b.1879, died young)
- Tulku Trimé Özer (1881-1924)
- Tulku Lhatop (1884/5-1942), an incarnation of Shechen Aphpong Tulku
- Tulku Namkha Jikmé of Dzachukha (1888-1960), an incarnation of Patrul Rinpoche
- Tulku Dorje Dradül (1891/2-1959)
- Apang Tertön (1895-1945) is also considered to have been miraculously conceived through Dudjom Lingpa's enlightened intent (Tib. དགོངས་པ་, Wyl. dgongs pa).
His Writings
His Incarnations
According to Gyatrul Rinpoche, Dudjom Lingpa had five emanations:
- Sonam Deutsen, the enlightened body emanation
- Dzongter Kunzang Nyima, the enlightened speech emanation
- Dudjom Rinpoche, the enlightened mind emanation
- Tulku Pednam, the enlightened quality emanation
- Tulku Natsog Rangdrol, the enlightened activity emanation, who was Gyatrul Rinpoche's root lama
Further Reading
- Traktung Dudjom Lingpa, A Clear Mirror: The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master, translated by Chonyi Drolma, North Atlantic Books, 2011
- Dudjom Lingpa, Buddhahood Without Meditation, translated by Richard Barron, Padma Publishing, 1994, revised edition 2002
