11 Facts About Patrul Rinpoche

Patrul Rinpoche was a teacher and author from the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Patrul Rinpoche received the transmissions for the Kangyur and Tengyur in their entirety, together with the writings of many masters of the old and new translation schools.

Patrul Rinpoche received instruction on the Longchen Nyingtik Ngondro some twenty-five times from Jikme Gyalwe Nyugu, and Patrul Rinpoche completed the required practices the same number of times.

Patrul Rinpoche trained for a long time in the Longchen Nyingtik tsa-lung practices, and he received many teachings from Dzogchen Rinpoche Mingyur Namkhe Dorje and other masters.

Patrul Rinpoche made efforts to put an end to robbery and banditry and abolished the custom of serving meat at special gatherings.

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Patrul Rinpoche went to Dzamthang and studied the Six Yogas with Tsangpa Ngawang Chojor, and he went to Minyak, where he had extensive discussions with Dra Geshe Tsultrim Namgyal on the prajnaparamita and other topics.

Patrul Rinpoche went to Kathok Dorje Den, where he offered prostrations and 'circumambulated' the reliquaries of the three great masters Dampa Deshek, Tsangton Dorje and Jampa Bum.

Patrul Rinpoche went to major monasteries of the Riwo Gendenpa tradition such as Sershul, Labtridu, Chuhor and others and taught elaborately on The Way of the Bodhisattva and other topics.

Patrul Rinpoche established a teaching centre in the vicinity of Dzagyal Monastery and he repaired the large complex of walls of 'mani stones' built by his previous incarnation Palge Samten Phuntsok, which thereafter became known as the Patrul Dobum.

Patrul Rinpoche died on the eighteenth day of the fourth lunar month in the Fire Pig year of the fifteenth calendrical cycle.

Patrul Rinpoche's writings were not collected by the master himself or by his attendants, and thus many of them were never carved into printing blocks.