23 Facts About Jamgon Kongtrul

Jamgon Kongtrul was one of the most prominent Tibetan Buddhists of the 19th century and he is credited as one of the founders of the Rime movement, compiling what is known as the "Five Great Treasuries".

Jamgon Kongtrul achieved great renown as a scholar and writer, especially among the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages and composed over 90 volumes of Buddhist writing, including his magnum opus, The Treasury of Knowledge.

Jamgon Kongtrul was first tonsured at a Bon monastery, and then at 20 became a monk at Shechen, a major Nyingma monastery in the region, later moving on to the Kagyu Palpung monastery in 1833 under the Ninth Tai Situ, Pema Nyinje Wangpo.

Jamgon Kongtrul studied many fields at Palpung, including Buddhist philosophy, tantra, medicine, architecture, poetics and Sanskrit.

Jamgon Kongtrul studied and practiced mainly in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions, including Mahamudra and Dzogchen, but studied and taught Jonang Kalachakra.

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Jamgon Kongtrul went on tour with the fourteenth Karmapa and taught him Sanskrit.

Jamgon Kongtrul became an influential figure in Kham and eastern Tibet, in matters of religion as well as in secular administration and diplomacy.

Jamgon Kongtrul was influential in saving Palpung monastery when an army from the Tibetan government of Central Tibet occupied Kham in 1865.

Jamgon Kongtrul was affected by the political and inter-religious conflict going on in Tibet during his life and worked together with other influential figures, mainly Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and with the Nyingma treasure revealer Chogyur Lingpa and Ju Mipham Gyatso.

Besides promoting a general inclusiveness and non-sectarian attitude towards all the different Buddhist lineages and schools, Jamgon Kongtrul was known to promote a shentong view of emptiness as the highest view.

Jamgon Kongtrul held that "Shentong Madhyamaka" was a valid form of Madhyamaka, which was based on the Buddha nature teachings of the third turning and Nagarjuna's "Collection of Praises".

Karse Jamgon Kongtrul was born as the son of the 15th Karmapa: Karse means "son of the Karmapa".

Karse Jamgon Kongtrul was identified and enthroned by his father at age twelve in 1902, in Samdrub Choling at the monastery of Dowolung Tsurphu.

Karse Jamgon Kongtrul resided at Tsadra Rinchen Drak, the seat of his predecessor in eastern Tibet.

Jamgon Kongtrul received the full education and lineage transmission from the Karmapa.

Jamgon Kongtrul attained realization of the ultimate lineage, was one of the most renowned Mahamudra masters and transmitted the innermost teachings to Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa.

Jamgon Kongtrul fled to India in 1959 in the aftermath of the 1959 Tibetan uprising and grew up at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim under the care of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa.

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche travelled with the Karmapa to the United States in 1976 and 1980.

Jamgon Kongtrul engaged in building monasteries and initiated plans for a home for the elderly and a health clinic in Nepal.

Recognition by 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje- The 4th Jamgon Kongtrul, Lodro Choyki Nyima Tenpey Dronme, was born in the wood pig year in Central Tibet on the 26th of November 1995.

Jamgon Kongtrul's birth was prophesied by The Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who recognised, confirmed the authenticity of his incarnation, and proclaimed it to the world.

Jamgon Kongtrul spent time between Kagyu Tekchen Ling and Pullahari Monastery, the monastic seats in India and Nepal founded by the Third Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche.

Jamgon Kongtrul Labrang gave his studies, training, and the receiving transmissions from the Lineage Masters.