Pema Lingpa or Padma Lingpa (Tibetan: པདྨ་་གླིང་པ་; Wylie: pad+ma gling pa) (1450-1521) was a famous saint and siddha of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a preeminent terton (discoverer of ancient texts), and is considered to be foremost of the Five Terton Kings. In the history of the Nyingma school in Bhutan, Pema Lingpa is second only in importatace to Padmasambhava himself.
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Biographical Details
Pema Lingpa, was born in Bumthang of Lhomon (the former name of Bhutan) in 1450. His father was Dondrup Zangmo, a descendent of the ancient Nyo clan; and his mother was Khandro Drogmo Pema Drolma, the daughter of a blacksmith. His childhood name was Paljor.
He was recognized as the immediate reincarnation of Kunkhyen Longchenpa Drime Ozer (1308-1363), whose prior incarnations included Pema Ledreltsal (1291-1319) and Princess Pemasal, a consort and disciple of Padmasambhava.
In the Biography of Padmasambhava known as the Padma Thangyig the following prophesy concerning Pema Lingpa occurs:
The most famous story of Pema Lingpa tells of his diving with a lighted butter lamp into Membartsho, the so-called flaming lake in the Bumthang district of Bhutan (actually a deep pool in a river). He told onlookers that if he was a false spirit his lamp would be extinguished. Disappearing to the bottom of the dark pool and feared drowned, he returned to the surface with his butter lamp still burning brightly, bringing with him a new sacred text.
He founded a number of temples in the Choekhor valley of Bumthang including Tamshing Lhakang.
Notable descendants of Pema Lingpa include the Bhutanese royal family and the 6th Dalai Lama.
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Emanation Lineages
Traditionally, there are three main emanation lineages of Padma Lingpa recognized: the Peling Sungtrul incarnations who are considered to be the speech emanations; the Peling Tukse incarnations, the mind incarnations; and the Gangteng Tulku or Peling Gyalse incarnations who are considered to be the combined body and activity incarnations.[1]
Peling Sungtrul incarnations:[2]
- Tenzin Drakpa བསྟན་འཛིན་གྲགས་པ (1536-1597)
- Kunkhyen Tsultim Dorje ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྡོ་རྗེ (1680-1723)
- Dorje Mikyō-tsal རྡོ་རྗེ་མི་སྐྱོད་རྩལ aka Ngawang Kunzang Rolpai Dorje ངག་དབང་ཀུན་བཟང་རོལ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ (1725-1762)
- Kunzang Tsewang ཀུན་བཟང་ཚེ་དབང aka Tenzin Drubchog Dorje བསྟན་འཛིན་གྲུབ་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ (1763-1817)
- Kunzang Tenpai Gyaltsen ཀུན་བཟང་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན (1819-1842)
- Pema Tenzin པདྨ་བསྟན་འཛིན aka Kunzang Ngawang Chokyi Lodro ཀུན་བཟང་ངག་དབང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས ()
- Kunzang Dechen Dorje ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེ
- Tenzin Chōki Gyaltsen བསྟན་འཛིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན (1843-1891)
- Pema Ōsal Gyurme Dorje པདྨ་འོད་གསལ་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ (1930-1955)
- Kunzang Pema Rinchen Namgyal ཀུན་བཟང་པདྨ་རིན་ཆེན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ (b. 1968) ~ the present Peling Sungtrul Rinpoche
Peling Tukse incarnations[3]
- Tukse Dawa Gyaltsen ཐུགས་སྲས་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱལ་མཚན (b. 1499) - son of Pema Lingpa
- Nyida Gyaltsen ཉི་ཟླ་རྒྱལ་མཚན
- Nyida Longyang ཉི་ཟླ་རྒྱལ་མཚན
- Tenzin Gyurme Dorje བསྟན་འཛིན་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ (1641-ca.1702)
- Gyurme Chogdrub Palzang འགྱུར་མེད་མཆོག་གྲུབ་དཔལ་འབར་བཟང་པོ (ca. 1708-1750)
- Tenzin Chokyi Nyima བསཏན་འཛིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ (ca. 1752-1775)
- Kunzang Gyurme Dorje Lungrig Chokyi Gocha ཀུན་བཟང་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལུང་རིགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གོ་ཆ (ca.1780-ca.1825)
- Kunzang Zilnon Zhadpa-tsal ཀུན་བཟང་ཟིལ་གནོན་བཞད་པ་རྩལ
- Thubten Palwar ཐུབ་བསྟན་དཔལ་འབར (1906-1939)
- Tegchog Tenpa'i Gyaltsen ཐེག་མཆོག་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན (b. 1951)
Peling Gyalse (Gangteng Tulku) incarnations[4]
- Gyalse Pema Tinley རྒྱལ་སྲས་པདྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས (1564-1642)
- Tenzin Lekpai Dondrup བསཏན་འཛིན་ལེགས་པའི་དོན་གྲུབ (1645-1726)
- Tinley Namgyal འཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ aka Kunzang Pema Namgyal (d. ca. 1750)
- Tenzin Sizhi Namgyal བསྟན་འཛིན་སྲིད་ཞི་རྣམ་རྒྱལ (1761?-1796)
- Orgyen Geleg Namgyal ཨོ་རྒྱན་དགེ་ལེགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ (d. 1842 ?)
- Orgyen Tenpai Nyima ཨོ་རྒྱན་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ (1873-1900?)
- Orgyen Tenpai Nyinjed ཨོ་རྒྱན་བསྟན་པའི་ཉིན་བྱེད
- Orgyen Thinley Dorje ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ
- Rigdzing Kunzang Padma Namgyal རིག་འཛིན་ཀུན་བཟང་པདྨ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ (b. 1955) ~ present Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche
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- Harding, Sarah (2003). The Life and Revalations of Pema Lingpa. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion. ISBN 1-55939-194-4.
- Aris, Michael (1988). Hidden Treasures and Secret Lives: A Study of Pemalingpa (1450- 1521) and the Sixth Dalai Lama (1683-1706). London: Keagan Paul. ISBN 0710303289.
- Tshewang, Padma; Tashi, Phuntshok; Butters, Chris; Sætreng, Sigmund K. (1995), The Treasure Revealer of Bhutan: Pemalingpa, the Terma Tradition and Its Critics, 8, Biblotheca Himalayica Series III, Kathmandu: EMR Pulishing House
- Gangteng, Literary Committee (2008). The Rosary of Jewels: Biographies of the Successive Throne Holders of Gangteng. Bhutan: Gangteng Monastery.
References
- ^ Gangteng (2008) p.15 (English)
- ^ Harding (2003) p. 138
- ^ Harding 2003 p.138-9
- ^ Harding 2003 p.139-140
External links
- Tertön Pema Lingpa’s Dharma Activities - at Gangteng Monastery, Bhutan.
- TBRC P1693 Padma Lingpa - at The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
- Pema_Lingpa - at Rangjung Yeshe
- The Pema Lingpa Lineage - at Yeshe Khorlo U.S.A.
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