Authors

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.....

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......

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.....

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.....

ཀརྨ་པ་རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ།

karma pa rang byung rdo rje

Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé

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

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.....

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་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་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་ཁེ་མཆོག་གླིང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

skyabs rje rtsi khe mchog gling rin po che

Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche

Kyapjé Tsikey Chokling Mingyur Dewey Dorje, 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 century trea.....

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......

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......

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་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.....

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)......