Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé

Today we remember the unsurpassed master Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé (1813-1899). Jamgön Kongtrul was widely known for synthesizing the knowledge and experience of the many lineages of Buddhism in Tibet. This synthesis is recorded in 'The Five Great Treasures'. He was recognized by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet as one of the greatest masters of the Rimé (ecumenical) movement, and is also known for writing and compiling one hundred volumes of teachings.

In the what is probably the most famous of his five treasuries, the Rinchen Terdzö or Treasury of Precious Termas, he included four of the many cycles of sadhanas of the Longchen Nyingtik:

  • The Fierce Guru Practice of Takhyung Barwa

  • The inner practice of Rigdzin Düpa

  • The innermost secret, unsurpassed practice of Tiklé Gyachen

  • Yumka Dechen Gyalmo

Longchen Nyingtik texts composed by Jamgön Kongtrul found in the Shechen Core Texts:

  • A Necklace of Lotus Flowers: An [Empowerment manual] which is Easy to Perform, Connected with the King’s Coronation Kamandalu Vase Root Empowerment, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (rtsa dbang - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ rig 'dzin 'dus pa'i rtsa dbang rgyal thabs spyi blugs kyi mtshams sbyor khyer bdes brgyan pa pad+ma'i do shal)

  • An Arrangement of the Activity Manual for the Blazing Fierce Guru, Hayagrīva and Garuda, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (Takhyung Barwa)(rta khyung las byang - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ bla ma drag po rta khyung 'bar ba las byang bklags chog tu bsdebs pa)

  • The Vajra Crystal: A Blessing Ritual of the Blazing Fierce Guru, Hayagrīva and Garuda, from Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (Takhyung Barwa)(sbyin rlabs - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ bla ma drag po rta khyung 'bar ba'i byin rlabs kyi cho ga rdo rje'i rdo shel)

  • The Cascading Essence of Great Bliss: An Empowerment Ritual for the Female Practice of the Queen of Great Bliss, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (Yumka Dechen Gyalmo)(dbang chog - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ yum bka' bde chen rgyal mo'i dbang gi chog bsgrigs bde chen bcud 'bebs)

 

ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་གཟིགས་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་གཏེར། །

Knower of all, treasury of an ocean of qualities,

རྒྱལ་བས་ལུང་བསྟན་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་ཞབས། །

Lodrö Taye, the one prophesied by the Victorious One;

རིགས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་བདག་པདྨ་གར་གྱི་དབང་། །

Pema Gargyi Wangpo, holder of all lineages,

འཇམ་གླིང་ཤིང་རྟ་ཆེན་པོར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། །

Great Charioteer of the world, I supplicate you.

From the Supplication to the Lineage of the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse, compiled by Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Note: Ocean of Qualities (Yönten Gyatso) is one of the several names of Jamgön Kongtrul. Two other names are mentioned in this supplication, Lodrö Taye and Pema Gargyi Wangpo.



Image from 'jam mgon kong sprul gyi gsung 'bum rgya chen bka' yi mdzod (bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 2012)


Sources: Rigpa Wiki, BDRC

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