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-'''Jigmey Phuntsok Rinpoche''' ([['jigs med phun tshogs rin po che]]) (1933-2004)
-Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, the highly-respected Tibetan Buddhist teacher and founder of [[Larung Gar Buddhist Institute]] in eastern Tibet, near the town of [[Serthar]] (Ch: Seda) in present-day Sichuan Province, passed away at approximately 9:40 am on January 7, 2004, at a hospital in Chengdu. He was 70.
-Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok had become a well-known Buddhist figure not just in
-Tibet and among the Tibetan people, but also throughout China and the
-Chinese-speaking Buddhist world. The Buddhist Institute that he founded in
-[[Larung Gar]], near Serthar,
-in 1980 with fewer than 100 disciples expanded and by 2002 it had over 8,000
-disciples, including a sizable Chinese population. He had also traveled
-extensively within China, giving Buddhist teachings in Beijing, Ningbo, Jizu
-Shan, Guanzhou, and Shenzhen.
-Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok was known for his scholarship. He was the first monk
-in modern Tibet who succeeded in building a major, successful monastic
-teaching center. His religious charisma was matched by an ability to work
-with authorities and to push them to their limits.
-==Brief Biography of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok==
-Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok was born in the year of the Water-Bird (1933) in
-[[Lhonor]] area of Sertha to Palden and his wife Yutso. He started his education
-around the age of six. His father passed away when he was nine.
-When he was 14 he was ordained as a monk by [[Khenpo Sonam Rinchen]] and when he
-was 16 he went to [[Zachukha]] to study under [[Thoga Rinpoche]]. At the age of 24
-he returned to his hometown Lhonor and began teaching at the [[Lhonor
-Monastery]].
-In 1980 he founded the [[Larung Gar Buddhist Institute]] near Serthar. When the
-[[10th Panchen Lama]] visited Serthar in 1985 the Khenpo had an audience.
-In 1987 the Khenpo traveled to [[Wutaishan]] (sacred Buddhist mountain site in
-Shanxi Province) accompanied by several thousand of his disciples. In 1989
-at the request of the Panchen Lama the Khenpo went to teach at the [[Tibetan
-Buddhist Institute in Beijing]].
-==Biographical Timeline of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche==
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok was born the first son of a nomadic family in
-March in the Dzume Chola planes in present day Serthar near [[Drupchen
-Monastery]].
-. [[Terton Wangchuk]] and [[Khenpo Dontock Lharig]] recognized Khenpo Jigme
-Phuntsok as the incarnation of [[Terton Sogyal Lerab Lingpa]] (1856-1926), a
-teacher to the [[13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso]].
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's father dies.
-. Formally enters a monastery at the age of fourteen, receiving
-preliminary vows from the renowned scholar [[Khenpo Sonam Richen]] of [[Dragzong
-Monastery]] in [[Nyarong]], eastern Tibet .
-. At the age of eighteen, he begins six years of intensive study and
-solitary mediation retreats with [[Thubten Choepel Rinpoche]] at [[Cangma
-Monastery]] in [[Dzachukha]] region of eastern Tibet.
-. China's invasion of Tibet begins in and around Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's
-home area.
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's mother dies.
-. At twenty two, he became a fully ordained monk maintaining over 250
-vows.
-. At twenty four, Khenpo returned to his home monastery of [[Nubzor]], where
-[[Terton Sogyal]] had passed away, to resume his spiritual and administrative
-role.
-. [[14th Dalai Lama]] flees Tibet and begins exodus of the majority of
-learned Buddhist teachers from across the Tibetan plateau. Khenpo Jigme
-Phuntsok remains in [[Kham]] and establishes mediation retreat centers in
-mountains near Nubzor and continues to give philosophical teachings and
-meditation instructions at various monasteries.
--1980. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok evades the People's Liberation Army, the
-Red Guard and Chinese authorities by wandering as a goat herder and nomad in
-the remote valleys of Serthar in eastern Tibet. During these years, he
-continued to practice mediation, write commentaries on Buddhist
-philosophical texts, as well as informally transmit teachings to students.
-In Kham, stories abound today of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's miraculous
-abilities to evade capture during this period.
-. In accordance with prophecy, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok went with less than
-a dozen students to a desolate valley near Serthar and built simple earthen
-wall meditation huts for mediation retreats. This became [[Larung Gar Buddhist
-Academy]].
-. Begins to write his autobiography at the request of his close
-disciples. More than a hundred students live around Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's
-mud hut.
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok experiences his first problems with his heart at
-the age of 50. Continues to teach extensively at [[Larung Gar]] as the number of
-students building permenent earthen homes increases.
--1986. Numbers of students coming to Larung Gar to temporarily reside to
-study and receive teachings begins to increase by the thousands. By 1986,
-more than six thousand monks and nuns from all different regions of Tibet
-are attending the ecumenical teachings of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok which
-included his commentary on texts of [[Padmasambhava]], [[Sakya Pandita]], [[Naropa]],
-and [[Je Tsong Khapa]]. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok travels in throughout eastern
-Tibet teaching.
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok meets the [[Panchen Lama]] in Beijing.
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok makes a pilgrimage with thousands of students
-following to [[Wu Tai Shan]], the [[Five Peaked Mountain]] in China, as well as
-[[Emishan Peak]].
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok returns to Beijing to teach from [[Nyingma]], [[Kagyu]],
-[[Sakya]] and [[Gelugpa]] texts at the Buddhist Higher Academy at the request of the
-Panchen Lama.
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok visits holy places in and around [[Lhasa]] and
-[[Shigatse]] at the invitation of the Panchen Lama.
-. In June, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok travels to Nepal on pilgrimage and
-makes arrangements to travel to India.
-. July 16, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok arrives in [[Dharamsala]], India and
-exchanges religious teachings and empowerments with the [[Dalai Lama]], renewing
-their previous lives' student-teacher relationship. The Dalai Lama
-recognized Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's niece, [[Muntso]] (born 1966) as the
-incarnation of a famous female teacher of Mindroling monastery, [[Minling
-Mingyur Palgyi]].
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok returns to Larung Gar to resume teaching. He
-continues to travel in China and Tibet giving religious discourse,
-empowerments, and pith instructions on meditative practices. Thousands of
-students continue to study at Larung Gar.
-. At Larung Gar, nearly 150 students had graduated since 1980 with the
-degree of "[[Khenpo]]" under Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's intensive Buddhist
-curriculum of study, meditation, and debate. Within the next ten years, that
-number swells to 600. Thus, Larung Gar khenpos are able to return to their
-local monasteries throughout Tibet and China to teach the next generation of
-students. At Larung Gar, simultaneous translation into Chinese of Khenpo
-Jigme Phuntsok's teachings by bilingual teachers if fully functioning, as
-the number of Chinese students from China, Singapore, Hong Kong and
-elsewhere continues to grow.
-. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok teaches and gives empowerments at the invitation
-of Buddhist centers in Singapore, Malaysia, France and the USA.
--1998. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok continues to teach extensively and write
-commentaries from all schools of Tibet, spending most of his time at Larung
-Gar. Chinese authorities' concern begins to grow for the large number of
-monastics at Larung Gar. Requests are made by local authorities to decrease
-the number of monks and nuns.
-. The number of Chinese students of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's residing at
-Larung Gar approaches 1,000.
-. On a scale not witnessed since the Cultural Revolution, massive
-demolition of monastic homes and large scale eviction of monks and nuns
-begins in July. All Chinese students are evicted, overseen by Public
-Security Bureau and People's Liberation Army. Police occupy the housing
-facility formerly used by Chinese students.
-. During the demolition, Khenpo Jigpun's health deteriorates and moves
-to hospitals in Chengdu for medical care. His movements are under constant
-surveillance by Chinese authorities. At Larung Gar, the curriculum is
-severely disrupted from the demolition, eviction and Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's
-absence, although teachings by junior teachers continue.
--2003. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok spends time in Larung Gar, medical clinics
-in [[Markham]], and [[Chengdu]], constantly under heavy scrutiny and surveillance by
-Chinese authorities. Serthar Public Security Bureau personnel continue to
-occupy monastic building at Larung Gar. Skirmishes break out occasionally
-between monks and police. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok teaches infrequently due to
-ill health..
-. January 6. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok dies in Chengdu in hospital
-reportedly from heart failure.
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-===Literary Works===
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-===Main Teachers===
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-===Main Students===
-*[[Khenpo Namdrol]]<br>
-*[[Tsultrim Lodrö]]<br>
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-*[http://www.cbfn.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50843]
-*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id41.html Drops of Advice from My Heart by Khenpo Jigmey Phuntsok Rinpoche]
-*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id69.html The Song of Devotion: Verses of Aspiration for the Fulfilment of the Enlightened Vision of Khenchen Jikmé Phuntsok by His Holiness the Dalai Lama]
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