klong chen rab 'byams pa

longchen rabjampa (1308-1364) the great nyingmapa master

longchenpa drimey oser- longchenpa, longchen rabjampa (1308-1364) the great nyingmapa master longchenpa drimey oser; rnying ma'i slob dpon klong chen pa dri med 'od zer zhes pa dbus lho gyo ru gra'i cha stod grong du rab byung lnga pa'i sa sprel lor 'khrungs, rab byung drug pa'i chu yos lor 'das, ta'i si tu byang chub rgyal mtshan dang dus mnyam yin, khong gis mdzad pa'i mdzod chen bdun dang, snying thig ya bzhi, ngal gso skor gsum, rang grol skor gsum, sogs chos tshan brgya phrag gnyis lhag tsam yod [IW]

The date for Klong-chen rab-‘byams-pa’s parinirvāṇa (his relinquishing of the appearance of his physically manifest form to others–or, in common parlance, his "death" or "demise") is often incorrectly given as having been during the year 1363. However, Klong-chen rab-'byams-pa did not "die" in the year 1363; he "died" in the year 1364. The discrepancy is due to carelessness in assessing the year, which is, with little trouble, validly interpretable; having, himself, been (as implied by some other entries here) a remarkable scholar, his entire life has been (by himself, therefore) well chronicled. Klong-chen rab-'byams-pa was born at Gra-phu stod-gron in g.Yo-ru in Eastern dBus in Central Tibet on the eighth day of the second lunar month of the Earth-Male-Ape year (i.e., Friday, 1st of March, 1308; which was at the begining of that Tibetan calendrical year) The date of Klong-chen rab-'byams-pa's 'parinirvāṇa' was on the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the Water-Female-Hare year (i.e., Wednesday, the 24th of January, 1364; which was at the end of that Tibetan calendrical year) at O-rgyan-rdzong in Gangs-ri thod-kar, Tibet. [LP]

Longchen Rabjampa [IW]

Longchen Rabjampa. [1308-1364] the great Nyingmapa master Longchenpa Drimey �zer [RY]