The Fourth Takpu, Pema Vajra Jampel Tenpai Ngodrub, most commonly known as Takpu Dorje Chang, was born in 1876 in Naksho, Kham...
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The Fourth Takpu, Pema Vajra Jampel Tenpai Ngodrub, most commonly known as Takpu Dorje Chang, was born in 1876 in Naksho, Kham...
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འབྲོམ་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས། b.1004 – d.1064 Tradition: Kadam བཀའ་གདམས་པ། Geography: Tolung Dechen County སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཛོང། Historical Period: 11th Century ༡༡ དུས་རབས། Institution: Reting Monastery རྭ་སྒྲེང།; Gyelje རྒྱལ་བྱེད་དགོན། Clan: Drom འབྲོམ། Name Variants: Gyelwa Jungne རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས། Dromtonpa Gyelwa Jungne (‘brom ston rgyal ba ‘byung gnas) was born in Tolung (stod lung) in 1004 or 1005, into the Drom (‘brom) clan. His father was Kushen Yaksherpen (sku gshen yag gsher ‘phen) and his mother was K...
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Pema Lingpa was born in Chel Baridrang, in the Tang valley in the district of Bumtang. His father was Dondrub Zangpo of Sumtrang and his mother was Pema Dronma...
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When the Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso died at the young age of twenty in 1875, his face is said to have turned toward the south-east, which was taken as a sign...
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Zong Lobzang Tsondru was born in Mangsang, Kham, in 1905. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Geluk master Zongtrul Tenpa Chopel...
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The Third Changkya, Rolpai Dorje was born in 1717 in the Drakkar territory of Nub Padmo De Monastery, one of four monasteries that Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen established...
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The life story of Machik Labdron has been recounted in several different Tibetan hagiographies, with considerable differences among them. According to these sources, Machik was born in 1055...
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Padampa Sanggye was probably born during the eleventh century in an area identified as the district of Kupadvipa, the province of Carasimha, the land of Bebala...
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Drapa Ngonshe was born in 1012. For five years he worked as a shepherd, and then took ordination at Samye Monastery from Yamshud Gyelwa O...
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Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa was born in the Tsongkha region of Amdo in 1357. Among the numerous miraculous incidents believed to have taken place...
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The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje was born in 1284. His father, named Chopel, is described as a Nyingma practitioner. While still a young child his parents brought him on pilgrimage in Tsang...
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འཇམ་དབྱངས་ཆོས་རྗེ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན། b.1379 – d.1449 Tradition: Geluk དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Historical Period: 14th Century ༡༤ དུས་རབས། / 15th Century ༡༥ དུས་རབས། Institution: Ganden དགའ་ལྡན་།; Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Sangpu Neutok གསང་ཕུ་ནེའུ་ཐོག། Offices Held: First Throne Holder of Drepung Monastery Name Variants: Tashi Pelden བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན། Jamyang Choje Tashi Pelden (‘jam dbyangs chos rje bkra shis ldan) was born in 1379, the earth-sheep year in the sixth sexagenary cycle, at Samye (bsam yas). His father is k...
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Buton Rinchen Drub was born in 1290. He began his studies of reading and writing at age five or six under the tutorship of his mother, and continued to study mathematics, reading and writing...
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Khedrubje Gelek Pelzang was born in Tsang in 1385. His name was given to him when he took novice ordination at the age of seven from Khenchen Sengge Gyeltsen...
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Gyeltsab Darma Rinchen was born in either 1362 or 1364, in a place called Rinang, in Nyangto, Tsang. At the age of ten he met Nenyingpa Rinchen Gyeltsen...
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Milarepa is one of the most famous individuals in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, but very little of his life is known with any historical certainty. Even the dates of his birth and death...
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b.early 11th cent. – d.late 11th cent. Tradition: Nyingma རྙིང་མ། Geography: Purang County སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང། Historical Period: 11th Century ༡༡ དུས་རབས། Name variants: Jangchub Dorje བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ། ; Langlab ལང་ལབ། Langlab Jangchub Dorje’s (lang lab byang chub rdo rje) life is heavily shrouded in legend, closely wrapped in the lineage history of the Vajrakīla tradition. He is said to have suffered greatly at the hands of his paternal relatives. To help him through his difficulties, Dre Atsara Sale (‘bre a tsara sa le), an accom...
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Kelzang Gyatso was born in the region of Litang in Kham. His birth was said to have been accompanied by wonders, including the infant’s utterance of marvelous words...
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The Eighty-fifth Ganden Tripa, Lobzang Tsultrim Pelden was born in Tolung Ragkor in 1839. The names of his parents are not known, but they were said to be descended from...
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The 69th Ganden Tripa, Jangchub Chopel was born in Litang in Kham in 1756. At the age of 12, his crown-hair was cut by Lama Dongnak of Sampel Ling Monastery...
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