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Jikme Lingpa Timeline

1730

• Birth (age 1 according to Tibetan counting)

1735

• At the age of five (six according to Tibetan counting) he joins Palri Ösal Tekchen Ling

1742

• At the age of thirteen he meets Tukchok Dorje.

1744

• He becomes a novice monk at the age of 14 (15 according to Tibetan counting)

1757 Fire Ox year

• Starts first three year retreat
• Composes his first major writing, the Detailed Commentary on the Lama Gongdü
• Discovers the Longchen Nyingtik. In the evening of the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month of the Fire Ox year of the thirteenth Rabjung cycle he has his vision where he flies to the Boudha Stupa.
• One scroll was the Dukngal Rangdrol and another A Casket of Enlightened Mind, a Manual of Essential Instructions

1760

• Starts second three year retreat at Chimphu. During the retreat he has three visions of Longchenpa.
• Composes Words of the Omniscient One
• Reveals The Spontaneous Vajra Song of Fulfilment and Confession while he was staying at Samye Chimphu.
• He receives the Seventeen Nyingtik Tantras, the Vima Nyingtik, Lama Yangtik and other transmissions from Drubwang Orgyen Palgön (Shrinatha) of Mindroling Monastery.
• After his retreat his has a vision of Th

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Jigme Lingpa

Nyingma Buddhist Lama (1730–1798)

Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798) was a Tibetan tertön of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the promulgator of the Longchen Nyingthig, the Heart Essence teachings of Longchenpa, from whom, according to tradition, he received a vision in which the teachings were revealed. The Longchen Nyingthik eventually became the most famous and widely practiced cycle of Dzogchen teachings.

Career

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Jigme Lingpa's childhood monastery was the Nyingma school's Palri monastery, or Pelri Tekchen Ling, in Chonggye, established by Sherab Ozer.

Prefiguring Jamgon Kongtrul's creation of the Five Collections, Jigme Lingpa gathered Nyingma texts that had become rare, starting with Nyingma tantras held in the manuscript collection of the Mindrolling Monastery. This collection of the Nyingma tantras led to the amassing of the Nyingma Gyübum (Wylie: rnying ma rgyud 'bum, "Collection of Nyingma Tantras") for which Getse Mahapandita wrote the catalogue, proofread and arranged for its printing by soliciting the expensive and labour-intensive project of carving the woodblocks for the woodblock printing. The wood block carving was forded through the patronage of the royal family of Derge (Wylie: sde dge) of Kham, who favoured