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...s, then in one lifetime we experience the wisdom wind for a total of three years and three fifteen day periods. ...the state of the Buddha [[Vajradhara]] is achieved by meditating for three years and three fortnights.<ref>Zangpo (1994), pp.19-20</ref> ...

When Lama Jamphel Sherap Rinpoche was 17 years old, he left his home and went into pilgrimage to different spiritual place ==Recent Years== ...

...n the caves of Tso Pema for 30 years. In solitary retreat during the early years, he was joined over time by more than fifty cave-dwelling [[yogin]]s and yo ==Recent Years== ...

...e 16th year | a fool, simpleton | any young animal | a colt, foal | a five years old elephant | Cyprinus Denticulatus or Rohita | N. of a Rakshas | of a pri ...

...ce near [[Sarnath]] where the Buddha gave teachings in the sixth and ninth years after his [[enlightenment]]. ...

...o full time spiritual retreat, and studied with [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] for 10 years. ==Final Years== ...

...masters. In 1992 he entered the Retreat Centre where he stayed for sixteen years of intensive meditation practice. ...l to pass on some spiritual instructions and transmissions achieved in his years of practice. ...

===More than 55 years in retreat=== ...a Rigdrol were the first two lamas in Humla (in Lathok) to stay in a three-years retreat under the guidance of Second Degyal Rinpoche. ...

...direction of Degyal Rinpoche (a student of Dudjom Lingpa) for over thirty years. In addition to completing 1,200,000 prostrations during his lifetime, he a His wife [[Sherab Yeshe Zangmo]] completed twelve years of retreat under the guidance of her own husband. Their son is [[Lama Yeshi ...

Accordingly in the Tibetan system, years are identified by one of the 60 names formed with an element (earth, fire, *[http://www.kalacakra.org/calendar/tiblist2.htm Tibetan calendars for the years 1450-2049 according to the Tsurphu tradition] ...

...Rinpoche]] and [[Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche]] in particular, and over the years held a number of leadership roles in [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] UK and in [[Lera ...she also served as vice-president of the European Buddhist Union for five years. As a Senior Teacher in Rigpa, she specializes in making Buddhist thought a ...

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...nual | after a numeral | lasting a certain number of years, being so many years old | N. of various works. {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatt ...

...travelled to Orissa, India, where he stayed studying and practicing for 32 years. It was there that he received many teachings and empowerments from Dudjom ==Final Years== ...

...two other temples at Urgyen Sangnag Choling which are several hundreds of years old. One temple is dedicated especially to [[Guru Rinpoche]] and the other ==Recent Years== ...

==Activity & Final Years== ...

==Recent Years== For many years since its founding by Dudjom Rinpoche, the Zangdokplari Monastery was run b ...

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Lama Pema Longdrol served Dudjom Rinpoche in Tibet for almost 15 years. After, Lama Pema Longdrol and his wife came to Kalimpong in West Bengal, I ==Final Years== ...

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..., Kyabje [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], with whom she studied and practised for many years. Sangye Khandro is one of the founders of the Light of Berotsana Translatio ...

...i Deleg enrolled in The Varanasi Higher Tibetan Institute. Completing nine years of Tibetan Buddhist studies, he graduated with honor as Acharya in 1979. ...onastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, serving as Vice-Principal for the next eight years. ...

He attended Dudjom Rinpoche for almost 30 years from the age of 26 to 55 during which he received the complete Buddhist tea ==Final Years== ...

...He studied for seven years and at seventeen went into [[retreat]] for ten years, receiving teachings from the 8th [[Khamtrul Rinpoche Dongyü Nyima]]. In 1 ...owerment]]s from 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche and other realized masters over the years, being in retreat whenever he could. In 1986 he was appointed as personal a ...

...certain astrologically inauspicious times. For example, there are obstacle years, obstacle months, obstacle days, and so on. ...

...system in the [[Gelug]] school. The curriculum requires more than fifteen years of intensive study. ...

...chos sku rdo rje '') — son of [[Ngok Chöku Dorje]]. When he was only eight years old, he received the Hevajra lineage directly from [[Marpa Lotsawa]]. He wr ...

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...only seven students. [[Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche]] studied there for five years. ...assed away. Khenchen Sonam Gyatso then followed as head abbot for fourteen years. ...

...'legs pa'i skar ma'') — the [[Buddha]]'s cousin, who followed him for many years and learned a great many teachings by heart, but still developed wrong view ...

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...n was thirty thousand years. His sacred [[Dharma]] remained for a thousand years. His [[relics]] remained in a single collection. There was also only one [[ ...

...Tibet. Lama Yeshi's father practised under Degyal Rinpoche for over thirty years. In addition to completing 1,200,000 prostrations during his lifetime, he a Lama Yeshi Phuntsok's late mother, Sherab Yeshe Zangmo, completed twelve years of retreat under the guidance of her husband, Lama Thikchok Dorjee. ...

...s twenty thousand years. His sacred [[Dharma]] remained for seven thousand years. His [[relics]] remained in a single collection. There was also only one [[ ...

...Phakpa Lha built the first temple and a stupa on this very spot. For many years after its completion, the temple and stupa were the sites of monthly and an ==Final Years== ...

...th instructions of the [[Nyingtik]], following which he studied for twelve years with Pöpa Tulku, becoming therefore both a great scholar and highly realiz ...

==Recent Years== ...

...s forty thousand years. His sacred [[Dharma]] remained for eighty thousand years. His [[relics]] remained in a single collection and were contained in a sin ...

...sok''' — a student of [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] and his private secretary for 15 years. He is also a [[Nyingma]] teacher, scholar and meditation master. ...es, he served as private secretary of [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] for over fifteen years. During that time he received all the important [[empowerment]]s, transmiss ...

...e do not appear when the human life span declines to less than one hundred years, because that period sees an increase of the five degenerations of life spa ...

...m for nine years — first for a period of six years and then for three more years later on — and focused entirely on this practice, receiving teachings and ...

==Recent Years== ...

...Tibet. In 1959 his family left Tibet and traveled to India. After several years, the family resettled in Orissa near [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]’s monastery, [[D ..., Dudjom Rinpoche’s shedra, where he was educated and graduated after nine years of intensive study. He also received teachings from many other great [[nyin ...

...in Gangtok, Sikkim, where [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]] spent the last years of his life, and where [[Khandro Tsering Chödrön]] then remained, in the ...

...öpöns (''chöyok'') are selected from young monks aged between seven to ten years old. Their role is to assist the chöpön and learn how to prepare for, and ...ually progress to the role of chöpön and will hold this position for three years. Once they have completed their training they may be selected to go onto tr ...

==Recent Years== In the last few years, Dudjom Tenzin Yeshe Dorje has performed many [[drubchen]]s and conferred [ ...

...Six years later he was arrested by the Chinese and imprisoned for fifteen years. When he was finally released in 1979, he returned to Dzogchen monastery an ...ter Dzogchen Monastery. Tulku Pegyal agreed and spent most of the next ten years in India, with a three year period in Sikkim. In 1995 he moved to Nepal and ...

...amtrul Rinpoche was closely cared by Shouchen Kunzang Nyima. When he was 9 years old, oral stories recount that her mother came to see him, and that he anno During almost 20 years, Namtrul Rinpoche and Tare Lhamo went through all over Tibet to give empowe ...

...for at least three years. In Khenpo Dawé Paljor's case he taught for four years on Vajrayana, Tibetan grammar and other subjects. After teaching at the nun In the last three years he has been teaching at [[Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]]'s [[Shechen Mon ...

...m, as he constantly asserted in his poems.<Ref>Josep Lluis Alay, The Early Years of Khyung sprul rin po che: Hor (1897-1919), Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, ...poche, without any sectarian connotation.<Ref> Josep Lluis Alay, The Early Years of Khyung sprul rin po che: Hor (1897-1919), Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, ...

Lama Rangrig spent the first seven years of his life with his revered grandfather Golok Sertar Rinpoche, who taught ===Being trained during 25 years by his father Tsokhang Choktrul Tsewang Dorje=== ...

...ent almost all his life in retreat, having completed six traditional three years cycles of closed retreat. He is one of the greatest expert of the [[Tröma Until recent years, Lama Ngodrub Gyatso was spending most of his time in retreat or leading [[ ...

...nskrit:''}} raining, falling like rain | or | a summer-house | a year | 5 years old {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatti]]}} {{Context|[[:Cate ...

Chhoje Rinpoche studied many years with Soktse Rinpoche, an incarnate lineage lama closely related to the Chho Later on, Chhoje Rinpoche spent a number of years with Dudjom Rinpoche, studying closely with him and practising under his gu ...

..., for example, the full programme lasts for nine years, with the first six years devoted to a study of the sutras and the final three focused mainly upon th ...

...the [[Dzogchen]] pith instructions to students while in prison for twenty years. ===Twenty years in prison=== ...

==Final Years== ...

...belonging to any species or genus or tribe or order or race of | aged | 8 years {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatti]]}} {{Context|[[:Category ...

...d the [[sutra]]s and [[tantra]]s at [[Palpung Monastery]] for four or five years, and also received all the oral instructions of the [[three-year retreat]] ...until the [[Sixteenth Karmapa]] passed away in 1981. At about seventy-five years of age, he went to Sherab Ling Monastery to be close to Tai Situ Rinpoche. ...

...o Puntsok Namgyal''' (b. 1965) learned to read and write when he was seven years old. He was ordained when he was fourteen and studied with Khenpo Pema Damc In recent years Khenpo has been invited to teach at five other monasteries or Buddhist acad ...

...d until the age of twenty-nine when he renounced worldly life. Later, some years after his [[enlightenment|awakening]], the Buddha returned to Kapilavastu, ...

==Recent Years== ...

Fifty human years equal one day in this realm. A hundred human years equal one day in this realm. ...

...labha}}. From {{Color|#006060|''Sanskrit:''}} a young elephant (one thirty years old) | a young camel | Datura Fastuosa {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti| ...

==Final Years== ...

...pent twelve years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those years in strict meditation retreat. ...

...oche]] to undertake a retreat in Yu Khyem. There, after he had spent three years in a [[Tröma Nakmo (Dudjom)]] retreat, a natural spring (Wyl. ''drupchu'') ...Nepal, as the result of a prayer by Golok Serta after he spent there three years in a Tröma retreat. Commanded by his guru Degyal Rinpoche to undertake thi ...

When he was three years old, oral stories recount that Shiva Rinpoche “could precisely describe h ...en]]. When he was only 10 years old, he accomplished the traditional three years retreat, after which he began to guide practitioners. ...

...anslators in world history, he travelled to India, where he lived for many years, studying Sanskrit and all the sciences of the day. On his return to China ...

==Recent Years== ...

...' is a contemporary [[nyingma]] [[lama]], based in Nepal, who studied many years with [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] and [[Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche]]. ...raduation, Yeshe Sangpo Rinpoche served as Khenpo of the institute for two years. ...

...re (NNRC), the research unit of NNI, and worked for the committee for five years. Beside this, he has also represented Namdroling Monastery in various platf ...

...mber of other great masters and [[tertön]] restored these temples over the years. ==Recent Years== ...

...krit:''}} 70 | with the counted noun in apposition or in | or | or | ; 70 years | N. of •wk. | 2 seventies | many seventies {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyu ...

...ar Monastery]] for eight years, and as the monastery's president for three years. ...

...number (100,000 billions) | the number of mortal days corresponding to 50 years of Brahmā's life | as | for {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpa ...

...ng]] in western Tibet, where the previous Chhoje Rinpoche accomplished six years of retreat under the guidance of [[Degyal Rinpoche]], a senior student of [ ==Final Years and Reincarnations== ...

...quare in shape. Its human inhabitants enjoy a fixed lifespan of a thousand years and do not hold personal property or marry.<ref>84000 Translating the Words ...

...g Rinpoche]], who supported it joyfully, as Dudjom Rinpoche did. During 12 years, Tulku Tsephel followed Dudjom Rinpoche wherever he went, and thus received ==Final Years== ...

...left Tso Na monastery and went to Bhutan, where he worked for about three years. He then returned back to his monastery in Tibet, where he became a tutor, ...]] and [[Sera Monastery|Sera monasteries]], and then he stayed for several years at the Ganden Jangtse Dratsang as an unofficial secretary and disciplinary ...

...in the Nyingma tradition, who also lived in Thekchok Ösel Chöling for many years.<Ref> Tertön Chöjé Lingpa was an incarnation of one of the three reveale ==Recent Years== ...

...tary on the ninth chapter of the ''[[Bodhicharyavatara]]''. After his nine years of intensive study at Serjong Shedra, Khenpo Appey went to the shedra at Dz ...ere only seven students. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche studied there for five years. From 1972 to 1985, Khenpo Appey worked full time to look after the college ...

...ullest of the seven types of [[pratimoksha vows]]. One must be at least 20 years of age to take this set of vows. ...

...ledrum | a sort of poison | N. of the 56th year in the Jupiter cycle of 60 years | of Kṛishṇa | of Varuṇa | of Asuras, a Rakshas, a Yaksha | of a son ...

...ned as beginning the year) | a churning-stick | the seventh year in the 12 years' cycle of Jupiter {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatti]]}} {{C ...

...nd where the second council (see [[Three Buddhist Councils]]) was held 100 years after the [[parinirvana]] of the Buddha. It is also near Vaishali that [[An ...

...end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, Ribur Rinpoche spent more than 10 years in Chinese labor camps and was given a job with the Religious Affairs Offic ...tory of Tibet, which includes his autobiography. Ribur Rinpoche spent many years living in northern California where he gave teachings and led retreats, bef ...

...lang pa''), was one of the five ascetics who practised austerities for six years with [[Buddha Shakyamuni|Shakyamuni Buddha]] before his [[Enlightenment|enl ...

...ecame the tenth khenpo of [[Dzongsar shedra]], a position he held for five years. According to reports, he passed away on March 3rd, 2016. ...

...ounded in 1880 as a mountain hermitage by [[Dudjom Lingpa]] when he was 45 years old. The site, where the [[Dudjom Tersar]] was propagated by Dudjom Lingpa, ==Recent Years== ...

...en the full moon is in the asterism Pushya) | N. of the 3rd year in the 12 years' cycle of Jupiter {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatti]]}} {{C ...

...ing chen'') was one of the five ascetics who practised austerities for six years with [[Buddha Shakyamuni|Shakyamuni Buddha]] before his [[enlightenment]]. ...

...with mutilation | sick, diseased. | the 24th year in Jupiter's cycle of 60 years | N. of a Prajā-pati | and | of a demon (the son of Pari-varta) {{Context| ...

...stayed in a life-long retreat since a young age. It has been more than 50 years that Lama Rikdrol is in retreat.<Ref>Private conversation with Thinley Dorj ...

...icharyavatara|Guide To the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life]]'' when he was eight years old. It’s only right that the father should give this teaching at the age ...

...he first spent two years on retreat. Then he went to Japan to teach for 10 years at the request of Kyabjé [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]. Back in India he became in c ...

...destruction, ruin | N. of the 40th (or 14th) year in Jupiter's cycle of 6o years {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatti]]}} {{Context|[[:Category ...

...ter leaving the royal palace, [[Shakyamuni]] practised austerities for six years on the shore of this river in the forest near the village Uruvela. Eventual ...

...ts, [[Lama Rigdzin Phuntsok]] took charge of Deden Tashi Chöling. Over the years, the Dudjom Tersar practices have been continuously maintained, especially ==Recent Years== ...

==Recent Years== ...

...athering that could shape the work of Tibetan translators for the next 100 years ...ion that Rigpa’s Spiritual Care Programme has made since it was founded 20 years ago. ...

...rteen years in Tibet, and then, promising to return to Tibet every hundred years as an emanation to further the Clear Light teaching of Dzogpachenpo, he lef ...

...ter to a Friend]]''. Much of this work was likely carried out in the first years of the ninth century and may have continued into the reign of [[King Tri Ra ...

==Final Years== ...

...ahmā is supposed to contain thirty such Kalpas. | according to the | fifty years of Brahmā's are supposed to have elapsed, and we are now in the | of the f ...

A few years later, Spiti Tulku moved to Kalimpong and lived with Dudjom Rinpoche, who t Tulku Rinpoche has been working tirelessly for the Dharma for many years and his activities benefit numerous monks, nuns and laypeople. ...

==Recent Years== ...

Tulku Orgyen Phuntsok spent his early years in retreat in Pemakö, at his own monastery, under the blessings of his fir ...taught various Buddhist philosophies to monks. Over the course of his nine years of study, he also received empowerments and transmissions from many masters ...

...ahmā is supposed to contain thirty such Kalpas. | according to the | fifty years of Brahmā's are supposed to have elapsed, and we are now in the | of the f ...

...pon the ruins of an old palace and hermitage, erected more than a thousand years before by [[King Songtsen Gampo]]. Up until the Chinese invasion, it also h ...

...r studies are completed students are required to teach for a further three years in a shedra before they can be awarded the title of khenpo.<br> ...

When he was six years old, Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche went with his mother to Dechen Chöling, ...this tantric ordination flourish in the West as it has for over a thousand years in the Himalayas and Tibet. He is the spiritual director of Ogyan Chokhor ...

...his immediate successor as ruler of Tibet. His reign lasted less than two years during the late 790s, before he was poisoned by his own mother, Queen Tsepo ...

...Tsalgyi'''</Ref>, is a monastery built by [[Dudjom Lingpa]] when he was 55 years old. ...age of 54, Dudjom Lingpa moved to the Li Gorge in the Upper Do Valley. Two years later, Dudjom Lingpa built the Dartsang Kalzang Gompa, which was to become ...

:''When [[Tertön Mingyur Dorjé|Tulku Mingyur Dorje]] was thirteen years old, on the 7th day of the month of [[Saga Dawa]], Fire Bird year (1657), h ...

...how long Dangma Lhungyal lived, it seems more likely that he was born 100 years after, rather than 8.</ref>, Dangma Lhundrup Gyaltsen, received a prophecy ...

Until the age of 17 years old, Pema Jigme Chöying Rangdrol studied the tradition of Namkha Khyoung D ==Final Years and Reincarnation== ...

...yalwang Karmapa]]. There he served the Karmapa for 17 years, the last nine years of which he acted as ''dorje lopön'' ([[vajra master]]). He was also an ex ...

...ho live there are very tall, about 7.3 metres on average, and live for 500 years. It is known by the Sanskrit names: Godānīya, Aparāntaka, Aparagodānīy ...

...nt ceremony is conducted, it may take place soon after recognition or some years later. If the tulku is too young to assume their responsibilities upon enth ...ally, a tulku needs to complete a formal course of training which includes years of study and meditation. This training reawakens the tulku's powers of insi ...

...N. of a plant | Bṛihaspati (regent of Jupiter) | the 3rd lustrum in the 60 years' Bṛihaspati cycle | N. of one of the 8 Maruts | Karṇa | N. of a metre { ...

...Westerner to receive the [[Geshe Lharampa]] degree, after spending fifteen years studying in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. He currently is Jackson Professor ...

...faces; peaceful and vegetarian, they enjoy long and pleasurable lives (250 years) but devoid of any true [[Dharma]]. The principal attribute of this contine ...

...ien Brohon''' (b. 1969) has been studying and practising [[Dharma]] for 30 years in the [[Kagyü]], [[Nyingma]] and [[Bön]] lineages, and has followed cour ...in focus is on Buddhist philosophy. He has taught on this subject for many years in courses, weekends and retreats in French-speaking countries, as well as ...

...ceive teachings from Dudjom Rinpoche. Sherab Yeshe Zangmo completed twelve years of retreat under the guidance of her husband Lama Tekchok Dorje.<Ref>Privat ...

...m]]. Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön also escaped to Sikkim where she lived for two years teaching and giving [[empowerment]]s and transmissions at [[Pemayangtse]] a After the Mongols left Tibet, Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön, who was then twenty years of age, and her younger brother Drinchen Rinchen Namgyal, returned to Mindr ...

...tion Center in Memphis, Tennessee. He holds a [[khenpo]] degree after nine years of study at [[Namdroling Monastery]] in South India. In April 2006, Khenpo ...

...e eldest wife | a preferred wife | the 8th year in the Jupiter cycle of 12 years | the middle finger | a kind of stringed instrument | misfortune | personi ...

...from Suvarnadvipa'. [[Atisha]] is said to have stayed with him for twelve years receiving teachings on [[Lojong]]. ...

Based in Nepal, he spent more than 40 years in retreat. After Lama Döndrup Chungma passed away on September 9th, 2019, ...

...''). At the age of 63, he retained the seat of Sakya for a period of eight years (1102-1110). He is one of the main lineage figures in the transmission and ...

...hallenged [[Chandrakirti]] to a debate in [[Nalanda]] that lasted for many years. His writings include ''[[Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow]]'' and ''[[ ...

...essel | a •partic. Agni | the 19th (or 53rd) year in Jupiter's cycle of 60 years | N. of a family belonging to the Kauśikas {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutp ...

...hilhunpo Monastery]] and took full ordination when he was twenty-two. Nine years later, aged 31, he became abbot. He was also abbot of [[Shalu Monastery]] for twenty years and composed five volumes of commentaries on the sutras and tantras and amo ...

...stery]] at the time, Dordzin Gaje Rinpoche, had also predicted a couple of years before where the reincarnation would be born and the eighth Drukpa Yongdzin Soktse Rinpoche spent several years studying with Yongzin Rinpoche, receiving many [[Kagyü]] and [[Nyingma]] t ...

...winter | a •partic. Ketu | N. of the 54th year of the Jupiter cycle of 60 years | N. of a people | heat, warmth, sunshine | N. of the Nakshatra Ārdrā whe ...

...den Lhamo is also related to the Lhamo Lhasto lake, in [[Dakpo]]. Over the years, many of the Dalai Lamas and their regents went to practise around this lak ...

...ctions taken from [[Jikme Lingpa]]'s [[Yeshe Lama]]. For a period of three years, Lama Chönam practised meditation under the guidance of Khenpo Munsel. Fol ...went to study with the scholar Delek Rabgyay, staying with him for several years; he studied grammar, poetry, history, the tenets of various Buddhist school ...

...th of the great [[Fifth Dalai Lama]], an event which he kept secret for 14 years. A celebrated scholar, he wrote treatises on medicine, astrology, history a ...

...the position alternates between these two, it usually takes up to fourteen years to become Ganden Tripa having become either Sharpa Chöjé or Jangtsé Chö ...

:Guru Rinpoche remained in [[Oddiyana]] for thirteen years to teach, as a result of which the king, queen and many others attained rea ...

...eleven (Dudjom Rinpoche), some (''Ming mdzod'') say one hundred and thirty years, remaining alive until the reign of Pelkhortsan (r. 906-924).</ref>. He bro ...

...eded to [[Mune Tsenpo]] as King of Tibet. He reigned for approximately ten years (from 804 to 814 or 817) and further encouraged the propagation of the Budd ...

...angsi and [[Gyurme Kunzang Tenpé Nyima|Shechen Rabjam]]. When he was three years old, the [[Sixteenth Karmapa|16th Gyalwang Karmapa]] recognized him as the ...s from Ayu Khandro Dorje Paldrön (1839-1953), a woman who spent over fifty years in dark retreat and was a disciple of [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]]. ...

...zer, who, it is said, taught exactly like [[Khenpo Shenga]]. He spent many years in prison, were he was tortured, but he taught his fellow inmates whenever ...

...mi pham mgon po'') was a student of [[Vairotsana]]. He was already eighty years old when he met his famous teacher but by practising diligently with the ai ...

...s, visit the holy [[Maratika cave|cave of Maratika]] in Nepal in his later years, to do Long-life practices. ...

...e [[Golok]] region of [[Amdo]], Eastern Tibet. Built more than two hundred years ago, it is one of the four main branch monasteries of [[Katok]] Monastery, In his outer autobiography, Dudjom Lingpa recounts how in 1891, at 56 years old, he was told by Dakini Yeshe Wangdenma to go back to Mardo Tashi Chill ...

...speech, answer, reply | subsequent result, future consequence | in future years | followed by | followed by `'¨#{sma}¨'' | superior, chief, excellent, do ...

...ell as the common teachings of three yanas of Buddhism continuously for 18 years. Tulku Tsultrim Zangpo qualified him as a lineage master and asked him not Years later, Zhichen Ontrul Rinpoche went to Tibet to fulfill his final responsib ...

...of [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]. He accompanied and served Dudjom Rinpoche for many years during his life in exile. While serving as his personal secretary, Lobpön ...

...a cafe, and even an internet connection, when power allows. Still after 50 years in exile the vitality of the community's faith, devotion, and determination ...ing. This dance ritual, was first performed in Tibet more than 300 hundred years ago. In 1958, the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche a master of sacred dancing, carried ...

...ht tirelessly, manifesting many miracles. He is said to have lived for 150 years. ...

...there are three periods, each consisting of five hundred parts.<ref>Lit. "years," but this does not refer to precise units of time but to periods of growth ...

...fluent in spoken Chinese as he has been teaching throughout China for many years. ...

==Final Years== ...

...ng contribution to the Dalai Lama’s work and to help safeguard it over the years to come. An international non-profit organization, the Tenzin Gyatso Instit ...

...modelled on [[Mindroling]] in Tibet, where Jikmé Pawo had spent his early years, and it retained an important connection with Mindroling thereafter. [[Jets ...

...first students at [[Sakya College]] when it was founded. For the next ten years, he studied there under Khenpo Appey Rinpoche. He received most of the majo ...

..., and sentenced to three years in prison. He passed away in 1951, only two years after his release. Perhaps his most famous and controversial work, ''[[An O ...

...'Bakula''; [[Wyl.]] ''ba ku la'') — one of the [[Sixteen Arhats]]. Born 70 years before the [[Buddha]], Bakula was first an accomplished scholar and then li ...

...ecret; now, however, his parinirvana has been made public. Rinpoche was 90 years old, and we rejoice greatly that he lived so long and touched the lives of ...sangha at [[Larung Gar]] (Serta). On several occasions in the last twelve years, many students from Chagdud Gonpa North and South also had the great good f ...

...Dzongsar Monastery]]. [[Mipham Rinpoche| Ju Mipham Gyatso]] spent thirteen years there in retreat. Monks from the Khamshe College currently use the hermitag ...

...ld, as well as the title and enthronement of a [[tulku]]. When I was eight years old I was given my dharma seat at the mother monastery Thubten Dorje Drak. ...on the nature of mind. I became the khenpo of Dodrak Monastery for several years, and then was requested to return to my own Taklung Monastery. ...

...dhyamaka]], [[Abhidharma]], [[Prajnaparamita]], and [[Vajrayana]] for five years at both of Namdroling’s monastic colleges for monks and nuns. He also ass ...

...tation]] throughout Europe and America since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the [[Dalai Lama] ...

...ontinent world system ranges from eighty thousand to a countless number of years. Universal monarchs are in possession of three sets of seven emblems: ...

...with a five day-retreat led by [[Sogyal Rinpoche]]. At the end of 2011, 25 years after the first [[Kirchheim]] retreat, [[Rigpa Germany]] was the main host ...

...place arranged for building a house upon, N. of the 25th year of the sixty years' Bṛihaspati cycle | a Daitya or demon | N. of the Asura Dhenuka | N. of a ...

...place arranged for building a house upon, N. of the 25th year of the sixty years' Bṛihaspati cycle | a Daitya or demon | N. of the Asura Dhenuka | N. of a ...

...he was appointed to be the supreme head of the Nyingma Tradition for three years. Katok Getse Rinpoche spent many years in retreat and was known for his mastery of [[Dzogchen]]. ...

...ng Rinpoche]] and His Eminence Namkha Drimé Rabjam Rinpoche. When he was 6 years old, he went to the local school and later attended High School in Darjeeli ...

...lished a drupchen practice at [[Chorten Monastery]], held once every three years. ...

...and Chinese. The actual use of this script was limited to about a hundred years during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, and it fell out of use with the advent of t ...

...He was abbot of the great monastic seat of [[Sangpu Neuthok]] for eighteen years. ...

...d by [[Dudjom Lingpa]] as advice in response to various disciples over the years. ...

Over the years, branch monasteries were also established south, across the Nangpa La pass ==Recent Years== ...

...an National Uprising in 1959. As a result of new recruits joining over the years, the monastery today numbers more than [350] monks, and the membership is s ...

...tery]] and in Dzachukha and had many extraordinary experiences. For twenty years he stayed in caves in the Trama valley in upper Dzachukha, eventually becom ...

...ath of intensive yogic practices and lifestyle. After spending at least 12 years in strict retreat, practitioners would receive their name of 'tokden', alon ...

...re he received the [[Geshe Lharampa]] degree. He taught at Ganden for five years. Jinpa also holds B.A. Honors degree in Western Philosophy and a Ph.D. degr ...

...ar, and was soon recognised as the incarnation of Lama Gulu. He spent many years in Tibet for his education. He returned to Tengboche Monastery in 1956. ...

Over the years, Drodul Dorje Tendzin studied with the following masters: *Tokden Yeshe Nyingpo, from whom he received Mahamudra teachings for three years. ...

...agyu]] master [[Shri Heruka]] spent a number of years in this temple. Many years ago a Nepalese master who also stayed at the temple had a vision in which h ...

...reat Sechilphuwa Özer Shyönnu received the teachings, spending twenty-four years in Chengyi Lhading and other places focusing entirely on these instructions ...

...g brtson 'grus'') (1187-1250) was an accomplished [[yogin]] who spent many years meditating in isolated retreat. An important master in the early history of ...

...ned to his original monastery, where he taught and worked for the next six years. In 1999, he settled in Dharamsala, Northern India. There, Rinpoche teaches ...

After 1959, he spent many years in prison, where he practised in secret and had a number of visions, during ...

When he was six years old the Buddha visited his homeland and was greeted by his family. Soon aft ...

...first excellent disciples were [[Shakyamuni]]’s ascetic companions for six years, until the Buddha to become, seeing asceticism was not the way, abandoned t ...

...ttis-Namgyel''' has studied and practised the [[Buddhadharma]] for over 30 years under the guidance of her teacher and husband, [[Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche]] ...uddhist Studies, but her learning is also grounded in practice. After many years of solitary retreat, Rinpoche appointed Elizabeth as Retreat Master at Long ...

...ic. vegetable poison | N. of a treasure | the 51st (or 25th) year in a 60 years' cycle of Jupiter | N. of Śiva or a kindred being | of an attendant of Śi ...

...hen Rinpoche and eighth throne holder. When the second Pema Norbu was nine years old, [[Padmasambhava]] appeared to him in a vision and blessed him. He rece Before he died in 1932 at only 46 years of age, he appeared in a vision to Khenpo Ngaga, and told him that his only ...

...ikrama era | above | is used for the | the first in a cycle of five or six years | the Year personified (having the new and full moon for eyes and presiding ...

...mother of Sikkim, who made regular trips to Tibet, approximately every six years or so, in order to see her relatives. She was a Tibetan from [[Lhasa]], fro ...

...d in Powo but including Pemakö and other valleys, for almost two thousands years. They subdued outlaws and extended their loving protection to the weak, the ...

...oetry and also began his serious study of buddhist philosophy. After three years there, he went to Lhasa where he studied further and also taught literary s ..., Khunu Lama travelled to Kham, where he stayed for approximately fourteen years. During this time he studied with [[Katok Situ Chökyi Gyatso]], [[Jamyang ...

...s head khenpo at the Sakya monastery in Puruwala. He also taught for three years at the [[shedra]] in [[Namdroling Monastery]]. His students include [[Dziga ...

...ak, Kham. Most of the time with her husband and sometimes alone, she spent years in solitude in caves and mountains observing strict meditative practices an ==Final Years== ...

...yurme Ngedön Wangpo met Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and studied with him for 7 years, receiving the entire range of methods of the sutras and tantras, and in pa ...the reincarnation of their master: [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], who was then three years old. ...

...se they have failed to make progress despite exerting themselves for seven years. The bodhisattva Undaunted therefore requests the Buddha to bestow upon the ...

The Second Council took place 110 years after the parinirvana of the Buddha. The arhat Yashah chiefly gathered seve The Third Council took place 137 or 160 years after the parinirvana of the Buddha. Five hundred arhats led by Arya Parsva ...

...aler Sangye Lingpa, instituted a tradition of doing a drupchen every three years at [[Chorten Monastery]] in Sikkim. Except for some places in Bhutan, this ...

...ons of the secret [[Dzogchen]] approach from [[Guru Jober]]. He spent many years at mountain retreats and solitary places like Drowo Valley, devoting himsel ...

...]] (1430-1456)<ref>The dates for the early throneholders correspond to the years during which they were at the head of Ngor Monastery.</ref> ...(2000-present day)<ref>The Ngor abbot throne is nowadays shared every two years between Ngor abbot throne holders.</ref> ...

...Manali, in Himachal Pradesh, in a place called Pagan. There he spent many years in retreat and taught extensively. His students include [[Dzogchen Rinpoche ...

...new incarnation of their teacher, [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], who was only three years old at that time. ...base of the Mount Kalaish with some disciples, he did a retreat for three years at a place called the “Elephant Cave”, a meditation place used in the p ...

...nt in this for the first year and then officiated himself for the next two years. ...oth Mipham Rinpoche and Patrul Rinpoche, studied and taught there for many years. ...

...He was unable to return to Tibet until 2000, and in the intervening seven years he spent time in the [[Dzogchen Monastery]] in southern India and in Kathma ...

::At 28 years old, [in 1862], […] I went to the nomad pastures in the Hor area. I pract ...

...dents from all different schools and monasteries of East Tibet, for twenty years. He is thought to have died in the 1960s in a Chinese prison. ...

*Thirty Years of Buddhist Studies, Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1967 ...

...ons and continued to teach. The monastic community survived, and in recent years a new nunnery was constructed. With more than 10,000 [[Sangha]] members now ...

...gh six months retreats, hundred days retreats, and twice completed a three years retreat. Lama Bum completed many practices of the Dudjom Tersar lineage, su ...

...er of Nanda | of a poet | below | the 49th year in the Jupiter cycle of 6o years {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyutpatti]]}} {{Context|[[:Category ...

...struction was launched, but due to a lack of resources, it took another 10 years to complete. ...

...From {{Color|#006060|''Sanskrit:''}} a young girl, one from ten to twelve years old, maiden, daughter | or (in the Tantras) any virgin up to the age of six ...

...] that he brought from Bodhgaya. It is said that the temple, which took 34 years to be completed, contains 9,999 images of the [[Bhagavan]]. ...ether with Hindu religious representations. The museum is the result of 14 years of renovation work thanks to the funding and technical support of the Austr ...

...), founder of the Sakya school. [[Marpa]] Lotsawa also studied for fifteen years under the guidance of Drokmi Lotsawa, learning Sanskrit and other subjects. ...

...recitation and visualization. Later on, [in 1928], when I was twenty-four years old, and practicing the approach and accomplishment phases of Dudjom Drolö ...djom Rinpoche kept secret the Dudjom Traktung Pema Sokdrub Zabmo during 37 years, as he himself wrote<Ref> henpo Tsewang Namgyal ‘Light of Fearless Indest ...

...studied with [[Sachen Kunga Nyingpo]]—with whom he stayed with for twelve years, receiving the [[Lamdré]] teachings, [[Padampa Sangye]] and [[Chapa Chöky ...

Rangdrol Rinpoche studied first with Kangyur Rinpoche and later spent many years studying and receiving rare oral transmissions and empowerments from [[Dudj ...

..., but he does not specify his source. Tulku Thondup Rinpoche gives various years, but on pp. 271-272 he indicates that it was 1901.</ref> received the [[Dzo ...d for twenty-eight years.<ref>''Dzogchen and Padmasambhava'' says eighteen years, but this appears to be incorrect.</ref> During this time he acted as his a ...

After, and during more than ten years, Tulku Pema Rigtsal, accompanied by [[Khenpo Dawé Özer]], received teachi ...he [[Thirteen great texts|thirteen major philosophical treatises]] for ten years ...

He headed [[Tashilhunpo Monastery]] for sixty-seven years before passing away there in 1737. ...

...n Rinpoche was trained in [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]'s monastery, engaged in five years of solitary retreat and then completed the three year retreat with three ot ...

...ears.<ref>Nyoshul Khenpo (2005), but Terrone (2009) p. 73 says forty-three years</ref> During the military occupation of Tibet, Lama Akhyuk was his guru’s ...ons and continued to teach. The monastic community survived, and in recent years a new nunnery was constructed. ...

...'s cheek or the part between the tusks | N. of the teeth of an elephant 23 years old | Unguis Odoratus | a •partic. Mantra | a kind of metre, Ked. | a mil ...

In more recent years Thich Nhat Hanh conducted many [[mindfulness]] retreats in Europe and North ...

...along with other practices, to the king’s life being prolonged by thirteen years beyond the limit predicted by astrological reckoning. These accounts togeth ...

...eir lifespan will not be exhausted and they will be able to live a hundred years." ...

...another date elsewhere in the calendar that had been omitted. Every three years, a 13th month is added anywhere amongst the twelve months based on astrolog ...

...winter | a •partic. Ketu | N. of the 54th year of the Jupiter cycle of 60 years | N. of a people | heat, warmth, sunshine | N. of the Nakshatra Ārdrā whe ...

...n 1958 and 1961, but it has also been reported that he in fact survived 22 years of imprisonment, and passed away in 1980/1, before any of his former studen ...

He then studied for seventeen years with the Dzogchen master Sonam Wangpo, receiving the complete instructions He spent many years practising in some of the most remote and sacred pilgrimage places of centr ...

...Khangsar family in Konjo, and lived to a very old age, spending her later years in caves and hermitages high up in the mountains of [[Nyarong]]. She became ...

...tary on the ''[[Madhyamakalankara]]'', written in 1876 when he was just 30 years old. ...

...m his grandfather, who raised him, at the age of three. During twenty-five years, he received teachings and [[empowerment]]s and attended [[drupchen]] with ...is teachings and his vision of Tibetan Buddhist culture. Over the last ten years, [[Shechen Monastery]] has been enriched with a [[shedra]], a school for sa ...

...me one of his closest disciples. After Tsongkhapa's passing away only four years later Gendün Drup devoted himself to fulfilling his teachers vision and wo ...

Khenchen Dosib Thubten Gyaltsen taught for eight years at Dzongsar Shedra and Kunga Wangchuk was able to join the teachings for th ...]], and Yena Chöphel Rabgye. In total, Kunga Wangchuk studied for over ten years with Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodro and his uncle Khenchen Dosib Thubten G ...

Over the years, Rigzin Dorjee Rinpoche studied with the following masters: ...

...ering has served Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche as his translator for more than 11 years. After completing a three year retreat in 1995, she was ordained as a [[lam ...

...teach at Rigpa’s summer retreat. In this interview, he recalls the twenty years that he spent in a labour camp during the political turmoil of China’s Cu ====Rinpoche, you spent twenty years of your life in prison, yet you are clearly brimming with joy, and you dedi ...

...he]] ordained him and gave him the name Karma Rangjung Kunkhyab. After two years of studying the [[sutra]]s and [[tantra]]s, and receiving instruction and [ ...a Kagyü]] traditions. From the age of twenty-five, he practised for twelve years in solitary retreat in the mountains of Kham, wandering about without posse ...

...'s cheek or the part between the tusks | N. of the teeth of an elephant 23 years old | Unguis Odoratus | a •partic. Mantra | a kind of metre, Ked. | a mil ...

#Drum Khar Nagpopa: Khampa yogin who meditated in dark retreat for 18 years. ...

...rated, but I didn’t understand clearly what he meant. When I was seventeen years old and went to visit my parents in the center of Tibet, I still had the ha ...angsi is Sangyum Kusho Tseten Yudron's grand-daughter. She spent her final years in Kalimpong, looked after by her daughter Nordzinla. She was very devout, ...

...rteen years in Tibet, and then, promising to return to Tibet every hundred years as an emanation to further the Clear Light teaching of Dzogpachenpo, he lef Fifty-five years after Vimalamitra’s departure for Wutai Shan, Nyangben Tingdzin Zangpo, h ...

Upagupta spent his final years in Mathura, taking up residence in a cave. From there he issued a set of se ...

...new incarnation of their teacher, [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], who was only three years old at that time. The child recognised them and called each one by his name ...n his legs. At the foot of the sacred mountain, he remained secluded for 3 years in the “Elephant cave”, well-known for having been a meditation place o ...