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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==
 
1933. 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]].
 
1937. [[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]].
 
1940. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's father dies.
 
1947. 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 .
 
1951. 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.
 
1949. China's invasion of Tibet begins in and around Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's
home area.
 
1950. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's mother dies.
 
1955. At twenty two, he became a fully ordained monk maintaining over 250
vows.
 
1957. At twenty four, Khenpo returned to his home monastery of [[Nubzor]], where
[[Terton Sogyal]] had passed away, to resume his spiritual and administrative
role.
 
1959. [[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.
 
1960-1980. 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.
 
1980. 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]].
 
1981. 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.
 
1983. 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.
 
1982-1986. 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.
 
1987. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok meets the [[Panchen Lama]] in Beijing.
 
1987. 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]].
 
1988. 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.
 
1988. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok visits holy places in and around [[Lhasa]] and
[[Shigatse]] at the invitation of the Panchen Lama.
 
1989. In June, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok travels to Nepal on pilgrimage and
makes arrangements to travel to India.
 
1989. 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]].
 
1990. 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.
 
1991. 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.
 
1993. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok teaches and gives empowerments at the invitation
of Buddhist centers in Singapore, Malaysia, France and the USA.
 
1994-1998. 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.
 
1998. The number of Chinese students of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's residing at
Larung Gar approaches 1,000.
 
2001. 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.
 
2001. 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.
 
2002-2003. 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..
 
2004. January 6. Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok dies in Chengdu in hospital
reportedly from heart failure.
 
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===Alternate Names & Spellings===
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*[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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