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Pema Lingpa - (padma gling pa) 1445-1521. Urgyen Padma Lingpa was a mind emanation of the great translator Vairotsana ; a reincarnation of Princess Pema Sal, the daughter of King Trisong Deutsen; and the immediate reincarnation of Longchenpa.
Note: Dorje Lingpa also sometimes used the name Pema Lingpa.
About Padma Lingpa
Over 2500 years ago Buddha Shakyamuni predicted that an even greater Buddha would follow him, one born from a lotus flower This „second buddha” is known as Padmasambhava, „The Lotus-Born” or simply as Guru Rinpoche and was instrumental in planting „tantric” or secret mantra” Buddhism in Tibet and Bhutan during the 8th and 9th centuries.
Guru Rinpoche not only taught in Bhutan, he also blessed it with many teaching treasures hidden for future generations, Ieft in mountains, trees, and in the minds of holiy ones. These „treasures” were ordained to be discovered by his chosen Regents - the 5 King Tertons, or ”Treasure Revealers”.
Of the five King Tertons, all named "Lingpa”, Padma Lingpa represents the direction of the west. the direction ruled by the Amitabha Buddha, of whom he is considered to be an emanation. In certain representations of the mandala of reafized beings in Akanistha, the pureland of Amitabha and Chenrezig Buddhas, Padma Lingpa is often represented by an empty space, because he vowed that he alone among Guru Rinpoche's Regents would remain to incarnate in this samsaric world for the sake of sentient beings until the very end of the coming dark kalpa.
Padma Lingpa, in additional to being the fourth of these 5 King Tertons, was the immediate incarnation of the supreme 14th century saint Longchenpa, "the All-Knowing," and was the last pure incarnation of the royal Tibetan Princess Pemasel, whom Guru Rinpoche had awakened from death centuries before, and to whom he had imparted the guardianship of his secret lineage of Great Perfection Teachings, „The Innermost Spirituality of the Dakini”. Guru Rinpoche empowered Pemasel to reveal these teachings in a future life
While Padma Lingpa taught and lived both in Bhutan and Tibet durung the late 15th - early 16th centuries, he was born, attained realization and discovered his first and many other termas in Bhutan. He is revered as a patron saint or Bhutan, and stories of his daring exploits in revealing termas and confronting skeptics abound among the laity and monastics alike.
According to the prophesy of Padmasambhava, Padma Lingpa's legacy was to reveal I08 Dharma treasures, but due to inauspicious circumstances, he successfully extracted only 32 terms. These fully intact teachings have until the present day formed the basis for most of the Buddhist practice in Bhutan Both the famiJy lineage and lineage of incarnations of Padma Lingpa have Continued to produce great masters and leaders. The present royal family and the King of Bhutan descend from Padma Lingpa as did the Sixth Dalai Lama. The three primary emanations of Padma Lingpa - Body, Speech, and Mind - continue the propagation of this extraordinary lineage in Bhutan and now, thanks to the Gangteng Tulku, in the west.
- Source: Yeshe Khorlo
Literary Works
At Samye Chimphu, he reavealed the treasure of the Great Completion Union of Samatabhadra’s Intentions (Dzogchen Kunzang Gongdu). From various other sacred places he revealed: the cycle of the Small Child Tantra belonging to the non-dual Great Completion; the Lama Jewel Ocean (Lama Norbu Gyatsho); the Great Compassionate One, Lamp Dispelling Darkness (Thukje Chenpo Munsel Drönme); the Eight Transmitted Teachings, Mirror of the Mind (Kagyé Thug-ki Melong); Kilaya, Most Secret Blade of Vitality (Phurba Yangsang Soki Pudri); the Elixir Medicine Sadhana (Dutsi Mendrup); Vajrapani as the Haughty Tamer, and as the Fierce Youth (Chador Dregdul and Tumchung), the Greater, Extensive and Abbreviated Sadhanas of Wrathful Guru (Drakpo Che Ring Chung Sum); the Adamantine Necklace of Insrutctions on Longetivity (Tsetri Dorji Trengwa), the Longetivity Practice, Applying Jewels on the Path (Tsedrup Norbu Lamcher); the Three Black Cycles (Nakpo Korsum); and numerous other teachings.
Main Teachers
Main Students
- Tukse Dawa Gyaltsen (thugs sras zla ba rgyal mtshan)
- Tukse Drakpa Gyalpo (thugs sras grags pa rgyal po)
- tshul khrims dpal 'byor
- Gotsang Repa (rgod tshang ras pa)
Emanation Lineages
There are traditionally three main emanation lineages:
- Peling Sungtrul (pad gling gsung sprul)
- Peling Tukse (pad gling thugs sras)
- Peling Gyalse (pad gling rgyal sras)
Main Lineages
Alternate Names & Spellings
- Padma Lingpa (padma gling pa)
- gter chen padma gling pa
- don grub rgyal po
- Urgyen Padma Lingpa (o rgyan padma gling pa)
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