13 Facts About Jigme Lingpa

Jigme Lingpa was a Tibetan terton of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

Jigme Lingpa was the promulgator of the Longchen Nyingthig, the Heart Essence teachings of Longchenpa, from whom, according to tradition, he received a vision in which the teachings were revealed.

Prefiguring Jamgon Kongtrul's creation of the Five Collections, Jigme Lingpa gathered Nyingma texts that had become rare, starting with Nyingma tantras held in the manuscript collection of the Mindrolling Monastery.

Major precursor of the Rime movement, Jigme Lingpa had many distinguished disciples in all four lineages.

Jigme Lingpa, translated by Sam van Schaik, states how his learnings commenced:.

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Jigme Lingpa was himself ambivalent about some of these activities:.

Jigme Lingpa even admits that the ancient ordinance of Lha Lama Shiwa O and Changchub O, which famously censured the indulgences of Nyingma practitioners, might have been merited.

Jigme Lingpa was a reincarnation of two important masters, Vimalamitra and King Trisong Deutsen.

Jikme Jigme Lingpa discovered the Longchen Nyingtik teachings as mind terma at the age of twenty-eight.

Jigme Lingpa remained in the depths of that meditation experience of clear luminosity for a long time.

Jigme Lingpa finally reached a circular path, which he thought to be the circumambulation path of Jarung Khashor, now known as Boudhanath Stupa, an important Buddhist monument of giant structure in Nepal.

Jikme Jigme Lingpa kept this terma secret for years, and he did not even transcribe the terma until he entered another retreat in which he had a series of visions of Longchen Rabjam.

Jigme Lingpa is known for his autobiographical works, primarily his outer autobiographies found in his nine-volume "Collected Works" alongside his "Heart Sphere" cycle and other historical works.