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[[Image:Rigdzin Godem.jpg|frame| | [[Image:Rigdzin Godem.jpg|frame|Rigdzin Gödem, revealer of the [[Northern Treasures]]]] | ||
'''Rigdzin Gödem''' (''rig 'dzin rgod ldem'') (1337-1408) | '''Rigdzin Gödem Ngödrup Gyaltsen''' (Tib. རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, [[Wyl.]] ''rig 'dzin rgod ldem dngos grub rgyal mtshan'') (1337-1408) — a major [[tertön]] who discovered the [[Northern Treasures]] (Tib. བྱང་གཏེར་, ''Chang Ter''; Wyl. ''byang gter''). He became known as Rigdzin Gödem because, at the age of twelve, three vulture feathers spontaneously grew from the crown of his head. When he was twenty-four, five more grew. Rigdzin Gödem literally translates as "[[Vidyadhara]] Vulture Feathers". | ||
He was an emanation of [[Nanam Dorje Dudjom]] and a previous incarnation of [[Tertön Sogyal]]. | He was an emanation of [[Nanam Dorje Dudjom]] and a previous incarnation of [[Tertön Sogyal]]. | ||
==Further Reading== | |||
*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History'', trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), pages 780-783. | |||
*Dr. Rigzin Ngodrup, རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེམ་འཕྲུ་ཅན་གྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་མདོར་བསྡུས་, ''rig 'dzin rgod kyi ldem 'phru can gyi mdzad rnam mdor bsdus'', Gangtok: Bulletin of Tibetology, No. 2, 1999 | |||
*Jurgen Wilhelm Herweg, ''The Hagiography of Rig <nowiki>'</nowiki>dzin Rgod kyi ldem <nowiki>'</nowiki>phru can and Three Historical Questions Emerging from It'' (M.A. thesis), University of Washington, 1994 | |||
==Internal Links== | ==Internal Links== | ||
*[[Throneholders of Dorje Drak Monastery]] | *[[Throneholders of Dorje Drak Monastery]] | ||
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*{{TBRC|P5254|TBRC profile}} | |||
*{{LH|tibetan-masters/rigdzin-godem/|Rigdzin Gödem on Lotsawa House}} | |||
*[https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Rigdzin-Godemchen-Ngodrub-Gyeltsen/7767 Biography at Treasury of Lives] | |||
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | [[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | ||
[[Category:Tertöns]] | [[Category:Tertöns]] | ||
[[Category:Northern Treasures]] | |||
Latest revision as of 08:42, 8 May 2018
Rigdzin Gödem Ngödrup Gyaltsen (Tib. རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wyl. rig 'dzin rgod ldem dngos grub rgyal mtshan) (1337-1408) — a major tertön who discovered the Northern Treasures (Tib. བྱང་གཏེར་, Chang Ter; Wyl. byang gter). He became known as Rigdzin Gödem because, at the age of twelve, three vulture feathers spontaneously grew from the crown of his head. When he was twenty-four, five more grew. Rigdzin Gödem literally translates as "Vidyadhara Vulture Feathers".
He was an emanation of Nanam Dorje Dudjom and a previous incarnation of Tertön Sogyal.
Further Reading
- Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History, trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), pages 780-783.
- Dr. Rigzin Ngodrup, རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེམ་འཕྲུ་ཅན་གྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་མདོར་བསྡུས་, rig 'dzin rgod kyi ldem 'phru can gyi mdzad rnam mdor bsdus, Gangtok: Bulletin of Tibetology, No. 2, 1999
- Jurgen Wilhelm Herweg, The Hagiography of Rig 'dzin Rgod kyi ldem 'phru can and Three Historical Questions Emerging from It (M.A. thesis), University of Washington, 1994
