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ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ།

jo bo rje dpal ldan a ti sha

Ārya Atiśa

Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna (982-1054) was a great Indian master and scholar, and author of many texts including the Lamp for the Path of Awakening. One of the main teachers at the famous university of V.....

མགོན་པོ་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ།

mgon po klu sgrub

Ārya Nāgārjuna

Ārya Nāgārjuna (mgon po klu sgrub, c.150–250) revealed the Prajñāpāramitā Sutras and laid the foundation of the Madhyamika Schoo. Nāgārjuna is revered as an unsurpassed master by all Buddhist schools......

འཕགས་པ་ཞི་བ་ལྷ།

'phags pa zhi ba lha

Ārya Śāntideva

Ārya Śāntideva ('phags pa zhi ba lha, c.685–763) was a great bodhisattva, who was the author of the Bodhicharyavatara. Under the name of Bhusuku he is listed among the eighty-four mahasiddhas......

སློབ་དཔོན་དཔའ་བོ།

slob dpon dpa' bo

Ārya Śūra

Ārya Śūra (slob dpon dpa' bo) was an Indian paṇḍita famous for his poetic treatises, such as The Fifty Stanzas on the Spiritual Master and The Garland of Birth Stories detailing the Buddha's previous .....

སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།

sangs rgyas shAkya thub pa

Buddha Śākyamuni

The Indian prince Gautama Siddhārtha, who reached awakening, and thus became a buddha, in the sixth century B.C.. Following his enlightenment he taught the spiritual path to awakening followed by mill.....

ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན།

chos rgyal 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan

Chögyel Pakpa Lodrö Gyeltsen

Chögyel Pakpa (chos rgyal 'phags pa, 1235–1280), the nephew of Sakya Pandita, was one of the five founding fathers of the Sakya school......

གཏེར་ཆེན་མཆོག་གྱུར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིག་པོ་གླིང་པ།

gter chen mchog gyur bde chen zhig po gling pa

Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa

Terchen Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa (mchog gyur bde chen zhig po gling pa, 1829–1870) was one of the great tertöns and an emanation of Prince Murub Tsenpo. He was a contemporary of Jamyang Khyentse .....

མཆོག་གླིང་གཏེར་སྲས་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།

mchog gling gter sras sprul sku

Chokling Tersé Tulku

Chokling Tersé Tulku (mchog gling gter sras sprul sku), was an incarnation of Chokgyur Lingpa's son, Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa, and the brother of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's root teacher Samten Gyatso. One o.....

མདོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།

mdo mkhyen brtse ye she rdo rje

Do Khyentsé Yeshé Dorjé

Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje (mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje, 1800–1866), the mind emanation of Jikmé Lingpa, was a student of the First Dodrupchen, Jikmé Trinlé Özer. His life featured many miraculous e.....

རྡོ་འགྲུབ་ཆེན་འཇིགས་མེད་ཕྲིན་ལས་འོད་ཟེར།

rdo 'grub chen 'jigs med phrin las 'od zer

Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer

Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinle Özer (rdo 'grub chen 'jigs med phrin las 'od zer, 1745-1821), an emanation of Prince Murum Tsenpo, was one of the principle students of Rikdzin Jikmé Lingpa. He founded Dodrupc.....

སྒམ་པོ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན།

sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen

Gampopa Sönam Rinchen

Gampopa Sönam Rinchen (sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen, 1079–1153) is the famous master credited with founding the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism......

གུ་རུ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག

gu ru chos kyi dbang phyug

Guru Chökyi Wangchuk

Guru Chökyi Wangchuk (chos kyi dbang phyug, 1212–1270), commonly known as Guru Chöwang, a speech emanation of King Trisong Detsen,་was the second of the five sovereign treasure revealers......

རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་མཁའ་ཁྱབ་རྡོ་རྗེ།

rgyal dbang karma pa mkha' khyab rdo rje

Gyalwang Karmapa Khakhyap Dorjé

Gyalwang Karmapa Khakhyap Dorjé, the Fifteenth Gyalwang Karmapa (1870/1-1921/2), was a student of both Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoché. He revealed both earth and mind treasures. .....

རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།

rgyal dbang karma pa o rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje

Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Trinlé Dorjé

Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Trinlé Dorjé (b. 1985) is the spiritual leader and head of the Karma Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism......

རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ།

rgyal dbang karma pa rang byung rdo rje

Gyalwang Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé

The Third Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Dorjé (rgyal dbang karma pa rang byung rdo rje, 1284-1339), studied both the Nyingma and Kagyü traditions. He shared a close connection with Longchenpa since they .....

རྒྱལ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཏ་ལཻ་བླ་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

rgyal ba rin po che ta lai bla ma bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is Tibet's spiritual leader and the senior most figure in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His Holiness was born in Amdo, in the north-east of Tibet.....

འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས།

'jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas

Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé

Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha’ yas, 1813–1899) was recognized by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet as one of the greatest masters of the nineteenth-century Rimé (ris me.....

འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

'jam mgon mi pham rin po che

Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche

Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche ('jam mgon mi pham rin po che, 1846–1912) was one of the greatest Nyingma master and authors of the last century, and a student of Jamgön Kongtrül, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and P.....

འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་དབང་པོ།

'jam byangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po

Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo

Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo ('jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po, 1820–1892), was a major treasure revealer—the last of the Five Sovereign Tertöns—and one of the most eminent masters of the nineteenth ce.....

རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྗེ་དྲུང་བྱམས་པ་འབྱུང་གནས།

ri bo che rje drung byams pa 'byung gnas

Jedrung Jampa Jungné

The Seventh Riwoché, Jampa Jedrung (ri bo che rje drung byams pa 'byung gnas, 1856–1922) was an emanation of Guru Rinpoche's disciple Langdro Könchok Jungné and student of Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and .....

རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།

rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan

Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen

Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147-1216) was the third of the five Sakya patriarchs, and the author of a famous commentary on Parting from the Four Attachments. He also wrote extensive Lamdre commentaries a.....

ཀརྨ་ཆགས་མེད།

karma chags med

Karma Chakmé

Karma Chakmé (karma chags med, 1613–1678), also known as Rāgāsya, was one of the most highly realized and accomplished scholar-yogins of Tibet. He was both the teacher and student of Tertön Mingyur Do.....

མཁན་ཆེན་འཇམ་དཔལ་བདེ་བའི་ཉི་མ།

mkhan chen 'jam dpal bde ba'i nyi ma

Khenchen Jampal Dewe Nyima

Khenchen Jampal Dewé Nyima, aka Gyurme Pendé Özer ('gyur med phan bde 'od zer) was one of the main teachers of Kyapjé Dudjom Rinpoche. He was the nephew of Tertön Rangrik Dorjé of Nyarong. His main te.....

མཁན་ཆེན་ངག་དབང་དཔལ་བཟང་།

mkhan chen ngag dbang dpal bzang

Khenchen Ngawang Pelzang

Khenchen Ngawang Palzang (mkhan chen ngag dbang dpal bzang, 1879–1941), alias Khenpo Ngakchung, an emanation of Vimalamitra, was one of the most important and influential Dzokchen masters of recent ti.....

མཁན་པོ་ཀརྨ་རིན་ཆེན་དར་རྒྱས།

mkhan po karma rin chen dar rgyas

Khenpo Karma Rinchen Dargyé

Karma Rinchen Dargyé (b. 1835), also known as Karmé Khenpo, was recognized at an early age as the reincarnation of a Kagyü lineage master whose seat was Karma Monastery in Kham. He was known to observ.....

ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས།

kun mkhyen klong chen rab 'byams

Künkhyen Longchen Rapjam

Longchen Rapjam (klong chen rab 'byams, 1308-1364), also known as Drimé Özer (dri med 'od zer), was one of the most brilliant teachers of the Nyingma lineage. He is widely acknowledged as the greatest.....

སྐྱབས་མགོན་འཕགས་མཆོག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs mgon 'phags mchog rin po che

Kyapgön Phakchok Rinpoche

Kyapgön Phakchok Rinpoche (skyabs mgon 'phags mchog rin po che, b. 1981) is the first son of Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche. He is a holder of both the family and Dharma lineage of the New Treasures .....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje chos kyi nyi ma rin po che

Kyapjé Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

Kyapjé Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche was born in 1951 as the eldest son of Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996) . He has served as the abbot of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery since its inauguration in 19.....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དིལ་མགོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje dil mgo mkhyen brtse rin po che

Kyapjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche

Kyapjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche (dil mgo mkhyen brtse rin po che, 1910–1991), the mind emanation of Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo (1820–1892), was one of the closest disciples of Jamyang Khyentsé Chökyi Lodr.....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་བདུད་འཇོམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje bdud 'joms rin po che

Kyapjé Düdjom Rinpoche

Kyapjé Dūdjom Rinpoche (bdud 'joms 'jigs bral ye shes rdo rje, 1904–1987) was the reincarnation of Dūdjom Lingpa (1835–1904), one of Tibet’s foremost yogins, scholars, and meditation masters......

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས།

skyabs rje 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros

Kyapjé Jamyang Khyentsé Chökyi Lodrö

Kyapjé Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö ('jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros, 1893–1959) was an activity incarnation of Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, and one of the most outstanding Tibetan master of .....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྨྱོ་ཤུལ་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje smyo shul mkhan rin po che

Kyapjé Nyoshül Khen Rinpoche

Kyapjé Nyoshul Khen Rinpoché (smyo shul mkhan rin po che, 1932–1999), alias Jamyan Dorjé ('jam dbyangs rdo rje), was such a consummate master of Dzokchen, and such an authority on the teachings of Lon.....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་འཁྲུལ་ཞིག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje 'khrul zhig rin po che

Kyapjé Trülzhik Rinpoche

Kyapjé Trülshik Rinpoche ('khrul zhig rin po che, 1924-2011), alias Ngakwang Chökyi Lodrö (ngag dbang chos kyi blo gros), a reincarnation of Tertön Trülshik Do-Ngak Lingpa, was a senior teacher of man.....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྩི་ཀེ་མཆོག་གླིང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje rtsi ke mchog gling rin po che

Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche

Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Mingyur Dewey Dorje (1953-2020), born in 1953 as the second son of Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, was recognized and enthroned as the 4th authentic incarnation of the great 19th .....

སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje sprul sku O rgyan rin po che

Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoché (sprul sku o rgyan rin po che, 1920–1996) was one of the greatest teachers of Dzokchen and Mahamudra in recent times. His lineage is now continued by his sons, including C.....

མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ།

mar pa lo tsA ba

Marpa Lotsawa

Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (mar pa chos kyi blo gros) or Marpa Lotsawa (1012-1097) was a great Tibetan master and translator, and a disciple of Naropa and other great siddhas. He brought many tantras from Ind.....

སྨིན་གླིང་གཏེར་ཆེན་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ།

smin gling gter chen 'gyur med rdo rje

Minling Terchen Gyurmé Dorjé

Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje (smin gling gter chen 'gyur med rdo rje, 1646-1714), alias Terdak Lingpa (gter bdag gling pa) was a great treasure reavler and the founder of Mindroling Monastery......

ཉག་བླ་པདྨ་བདུད་འདུལ།

nyag bla padma bdud 'dul

Nyala Pema Düdül

Nyala Pema Düdul (nyag bla padma bdud 'dul, 1816–1872) was a famous Dzokchen master and treasure revealer from Nyarong who attained rainbow body in 1872. He was a teacher of Tertön Sogyal (1856–1926)......

པདྨ་གླིང་པ།

padma gling pa

Pema Lingpa

Pema Lingpa (padma gling pa,་1450-1521) was an important treasure revealer from Bhutan, listed as the fourth of the five sovereign treasure revealers. He is considered to be the last of the five incar.....

རིག་འཛིན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་རྡོ་རྗེ།

rig 'dzin chos rgyal rdo rje

Rikdzin Chögyal Dorjé

Rikdzin Chögyal Dorjé (chos rgyal rdo rje, 1789–1859) was a great Nyingma and Kagyü master, renowned as an emanation of Mutri Tsenpo, third son of the Dharma king Trisong Deutsen......

རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་ཆེན་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།

rig 'dzin rgod ldem chen dngos grub rgyal mtshan

Rikdzin Gödem Ngödrup Gyeltsen

Rikdzin Gödem Ngödrup Gyeltsen (rig 'dzin rgod ldem dngos grub rgyal mtshan, 1337–1408) is the famed discoverer of the so-called Northern Treasures (byang gter) revelation and founder of Dorjé Drak mo.....

རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ།

rig 'dzin 'jigs med gling pa

Rikdzin Jikmé Lingpa

Rikdzin Jikmé Lingpa ('jigs med gling pa, 1730–1798), one of the most important figures in the Nyingma lineage, was a great scholar and visionary, and discovered the Longchen Nyingtik cycle of teachin.....

རིག་འཛིན་ཉི་མ་གྲགས་པ།

rig 'dzin nyin ma grags pa

Rikdzin Nyima Drakpa

Rikdzin Nyima Drakpa Tsel (rig 'dzin nyi ma grags pa, 1647–1710) was a treasure revealer connected to Dzokchen Monastery. He was an emanation of Khön Lu'i Wangpo, a disciple of Guru Rinpoche, and one .....

རིག་འཛིན་རོལ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ།

rig 'dzin rol pa'i rdo rje

Rikdzin Rölpé Dorjé

Rikdzin Rölpé Dorjé (d. 1719) was a 17th-18th century treasure revealer......

རི་ཆེ་འཕགས་མཆོག་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ལྷུན་འགྲུབ།

ri che 'phags mchog chos dbyings lhun 'grub

Riwoché Phakchok Chöying Lhündrup

Riwoché Phakchok Chöying Lhündrup Lhundrup (d.1829) was the third Phakchok Rinpoche and the seventeenth throne-holder of Riwoché Monastery......

སྟག་ལུང་ཞབས་དྲུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

stag lung zhabs drung rin po che

Taklung Zhapdrung Rinpoche

Taklung Zhapdrung Rinpoche (stag lung zhabs drung rin po che, 1918-1994), alias Tupten Jangchup Chökyi Nyima (thub bstan byang chub chos kyi nyi ma), was an important upholder of the Taklung Kagyü tra.....

གཏེར་སྲས་འགྱུར་མེད་ཚེ་དབང་གྲགས་པ།

gter sras 'gyur med tshe dbang grags pa

Tersé Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa

Gyurmé Tsewang Drakpa ('gyur med tshe dbang grags pa), alias Wangchuk Dorjé (dbyang phyug rdo rje), an emanation of King Jah, was the great tertön Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa’s eldest son......

གཏེར་སྟོན་མི་འགྱུར་རྡོ་རྗེ།

gter ston mi 'gyur rdo rje

Tertön Mingyur Dorjé

Tertön Mingyur Dorjé (gter ston mi 'gyur rdo rje, 1645–1667) was an emanation of Palgyi Sengé, one of Guru Rinpoche's disciples. His teacher was Karma Chakmé and he revealed the famous Namchö cycle of.....

གཏེར་སྟོན་རང་རིག་རྡོ་རྗེ།

gter ston rang rig rdo rje

Tertön Rangrik Dorjé

Tertön Rangrik Dorjé aka Nyala Rangrik Dorje or Kusum Lingpa (1847-1903) was an important master from Nyarong, who was associated with the monastery of Lumorap. He was a disciple of Nyala Pema Dündul .....

འཁྲུལ་ཞིག་ཨ་ལྡེའུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

'khrul zhig a lde’u rin po che

Trulzhik Adeu Rinpoche

Trulshik Adeu Rinpoche (1931-2007), also known as Druprik Khyuchok or Drupchok Rinpoche, was an important Drukpa Kagyü teacher from Tsechu Monastery, Nangchen. Like Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, he wa.....

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rtse le sna tshogs rang grol

Tselé Natsok Rangdrol

Tselé Natsok Rangdrol (rtse le sna tshogs rang grol, b. 1608) was recognized as a reincarnation of both Tendzin Dorjé (1535-1605?) and of Götsangpa. In his youth he studied with the Third Pawo Rinpoch.....

སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་བཟང་པོ་གྲགས་པ།

sprul sku bzang po grags pa

Tulku Zangpo Drakpa

Tulku Zangpo was a great treasure revealer who lived in the 14th century. He's celebrated for having revealed the famous Prayer to Guru Rinpoche in Seven Chapters (le'u bdun ma)......

སྣ་ཚོགས་པ།

sna tshogs pa

Various

Various or unknown authors......

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ye shes rdo rje

Yeshé Dorjé

Yeshe Dorje aka Könchok Bangpa was a prominent disciple of Nyala Pema Düdul who stayed at Lumorab monastery for many years along with Tertön Rangrik Dorjé......