Klong chen pa
ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་
Longchen Rabjam Drime Özer (1308 - 1364) Born in: g.yo ru <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Earth Monkey, 5<sup>th</sup> sexagenary cycle. <br>
Longchen Rabjam Drime Özer (1308 - 1364) Born in: g.yo ru <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Earth Monkey, 5<sup>th</sup> sexagenary cycle. <br>
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File:Longchenpa (Nyingthig Lineage).jpg|\n|@@@|thumb|none|x200px| }}Also known as Klong chen pa (Longchenpa). An esteemed master and scholar of the Rnying ma sect of Tibetan Buddhism known especially for his promulgation of rdogs chen. Klong chen pa is believed to be the direct reincarnation of Padma las 'brel rtsal, who revealed the Rdzogs chen snying thig, and also of Padma gsal, who first received those teachings from the Indian master Padmasambhava. Born in the central region of G.yo ru (Yoru), he received ordination at the age of twelve. At nineteen, he entered Gsang phu ne'u thog monastery where he engaged in a wide range of studies, including philosophy, numerous systems of sūtra and tantra, and the traditional Buddhist sciences, including grammar and poetics. Having trained under masters as diverse as the abbots of Gsang phu ne'u thog and the third Karma pa, Rang 'byung rdo rje, he achieved great scholarly mastery of numerous traditions, including the Rnying ma, Sa skya, and Bka' brgyud sects. However, Klong chen pa quickly became disillusioned at the arrogance and pretention of many scholars of his day, and in his mid-twenties gave up the monastery to pursue the life of a wandering ascetic. At twenty-nine, he met the great yogin Kumārarāja at Bsam yas monastery, who accepted him as a disciple and transmitted the three classes of rdzogs chen (rdzogs chen sde gsum), a corpus of materials that would become a fundamental part of Klong chen pa's later writings and teaching career . . . Among the most important and well-known works in Klong chen pa's extensive literary corpus are his redaction of the meditation and ritual manuals of the heart essence (Snying thig), composed mainly in the hermitage of Gangs ri thod dkar. Other important works include his exegesis on the theory and practice of rdzogs chen, such as the Mdzod bdun (“seven treasuries”) and the Ngal gso skor gsum (“Trilogy on Rest”). (Source: “Klong chen rab 'byams.” In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 439. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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| BDRC | https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P1583 |
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| Treasury of Lives | http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Longchenpa-Drime-Ozer/P1583 |
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