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According to Dudjom Lingpa himself, 'Ngawang Gyatso—and [Lama] Puntsok Tashi—was “a [[Chödak|custodian]] of his teachings”.<Ref>Dudjom Lingpa, ‘A Clear Mirror’, The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master’, The Outer Biography, translated by Chönyi Drolma, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2011, page 72.</Ref><Ref>'''Gyatso''' can refers to several students of Dudjom Lingpa whose future accomplishments were revealed by the Dakini Kuntu Gyuma to him in 1882. In his autobiography, Dudjom Lingpa recounts: ''[In 1882], on the tenth day of the middle winter month, a woman appears saying she was Dakini Kuntu Gyuma Saljéma, Wandering All-Illuminator, and sang to me, ‘A superb person named Gyatso, Ocean, should apply himself to the essential practices. If he has practiced his whole life long, he will attain true and perfect enlightenment.’ ''(Traktung Dudjom Lingpa, ‘A Clear Mirror’, The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master’, The Outer Autobiography, translated by Chönyi Drolma, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2011, page 158).</Ref>
According to Dudjom Lingpa himself, 'Ngawang Gyatso—and [Lama] Puntsok Tashi—was “a [[Chödak|custodian]] of his teachings”.<Ref>Dudjom Lingpa, ‘A Clear Mirror’, The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master’, The Outer Biography, translated by Chönyi Drolma, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2011, page 72.</Ref><Ref>'''Gyatso''' can refers to several students of Dudjom Lingpa whose future accomplishments were revealed by the Dakini Kuntu Gyuma to him in 1882. In his autobiography, Dudjom Lingpa recounts: ''[In 1882], on the tenth day of the middle winter month, a woman appears saying she was Dakini Kuntu Gyuma Saljéma, Wandering All-Illuminator, and sang to me, ‘A superb person named Gyatso, Ocean, should apply himself to the essential practices. If he has practiced his whole life long, he will attain true and perfect enlightenment.’ ''(Traktung Dudjom Lingpa, ‘A Clear Mirror’, The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master’, The Outer Autobiography, translated by Chönyi Drolma, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2011, page 158).</Ref>


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Revision as of 13:58, 31 March 2016

Ngawang Gyatso was one of Dudjom Lingpa's first and most valued disciples. Ngawang Gyatso was a nephew of Gili[1] Wangli, of Golok, one of the two major patrons of Dudjom Lingpa (the other patron being Gönten).

According to Dudjom Lingpa himself, 'Ngawang Gyatso—and [Lama] Puntsok Tashi—was “a custodian of his teachings”.[2][3]

Notes

  1. Dudjom Lingpa is still commonly known as Gili Tertön due to his steadfast connection with that family (source: Appendix of 'A Clear Mirror', Translated by Chönyi Drolma)
  2. Dudjom Lingpa, ‘A Clear Mirror’, The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master’, The Outer Biography, translated by Chönyi Drolma, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2011, page 72.
  3. Gyatso can refers to several students of Dudjom Lingpa whose future accomplishments were revealed by the Dakini Kuntu Gyuma to him in 1882. In his autobiography, Dudjom Lingpa recounts: [In 1882], on the tenth day of the middle winter month, a woman appears saying she was Dakini Kuntu Gyuma Saljéma, Wandering All-Illuminator, and sang to me, ‘A superb person named Gyatso, Ocean, should apply himself to the essential practices. If he has practiced his whole life long, he will attain true and perfect enlightenment.’ (Traktung Dudjom Lingpa, ‘A Clear Mirror’, The Visionary Autobiography of a Tibetan Master’, The Outer Autobiography, translated by Chönyi Drolma, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2011, page 158).

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