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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. ...

...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 ...

===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] ...

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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 ...

==Recent Years== ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

...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 fam ...

...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 ...

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...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> Khenpo Tsewang Namgyal ‘Light of Fearless Indes ...

...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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...out ten years, fleeing with him to Bhutan and then India in 1959. Over the years, he received many teachings from him, including the ''[[Guhyagarbha Tantra] ...he shedra was finally established in 1978 and from then until 2003, for 25 years, Khenpo Pema Sherab taught there tirelessly while also managing the institu ...

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 ...

...closely supervised by His Holiness the [[Dalai Lama]], and he spent seven years at the [[Buddhist School of Dialectics]] before graduating with the degree ...

...'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 ...

...didn't know if this was a good or bad sign. When Lama Pema Dorje was four years old, his father consulted with his guru, Golok Serta Rinpoche, who confirme For many years, Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche spent most of his time practising, not teaching, ...

A few years after his brother’s enthronement as the Third Dodrupchen Rinpoche in 1870 ...

...would become one of the main events for the German sangha for the next 25 years, attracting international audiences from the very beginning. The very first ...ab Gar]]. "With the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the work of many years has come to fruition," Sogyal Rinpoche explained at the Kirchheim retreat o ...

:Do not speak of this for three years!" ...He said that he would be unable to keep these a secret for more than three years. ...

...bet in 1959. Rinpoche first stayed at monasteries like Thangmé for several years, while hoping to return to his own monastery of [[Rongpuk Monastery]]  in ...

.... In the meantime, Shiva was practicing austerities alone for thousands of years. Finally Durga took birth as the daughter of a king and performed many prac ...

...astery]] succeeding [[Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen]]. He held the office for six years, passing away in 1438. ...

...d was told not to reveal them to others or to write them down for eighteen years. Before this time had passed however, he fell sick, and forgot some of the ...

...body dissolved into light, his wrinkles vanishing, he seemed like an eight-years old child with a beautiful complexion. After a week had passed, when people ...

*489 B.C.E. based on the reign of [[Ashoka]] being 218 years after the parinirvana *371 B.C.E. based on the reign of Ashoka being 100 years after the parinirvana ...

...vity of Dudjom Rinpoche. He stayed and was fully trained there during many years. ==Final Years== ...

...ns and indications appeared. According to the story, Namgyal Drolma was 16 years old at the time they met. Dudjom Rinpoche was born in 1904. According to th ...rst son, Düdjom Rinpoche, amidst innumerable auspicious signs. After three years, many students of Dudjom Lingpa arrived in Pemakö, led by [[Gyurme Ngedön ...

Sangyum Rigzin Wangmo spent many years in strict retreat and was considered a true hidden [[dakini]]. She passed a ...ed this divine prophecy from the [[dakini]]s when my mother was just eight years old. At the same time, at that young age, my mother received dakini teachin ...

:In Tibet, 1200 years ago when the teachings of Indian Buddhism were being transplanted, there we ...

...onk who spent most of his life in retreat at [[Tharlam Monastery]]. At ten years old, he met the great Sakya master [[Gatön Ngawang Lekpa|Jamgön Ngawang L ...amdré]] and the ''[[Compendium of Sadhanas]]''. He also completed over ten years of retreats and travelled widely throughout Tibet teaching and giving empow ...

...n Jikmé Lingpa practised, focusing on the Omniscient Longchenpa, for three years in the Sangchen Metok Cave at [[Samyé Chimphu]], Longchenpa actually appea ...

...race to which his family belonged | he is said to have died when he was 80 years of age, prob. about 420 B. C. | he was preceded by 3 mythical Buddhas of th ...

...young girl (in whom menstruation has just commenced) | others’a girl nine years of age’| N. of various plants (= Helleborus Niger | Acacia Arabica | Gme ...

...in the Wood Mouse year (1084), Milarepa went to Upper Tibet, and for nine years, moved through Kyirong and Nyal. There he endured hardships, such as wearin ...

...le | the zodiac | a mystical circle or diagram, Tantr. | a cycle, cycle of years or of seasons | 'a form of military array (in a circle)' | circular flight ...

...ician of [[Dakpo]] (the name of the province in which he was to spend many years), became ordained at the age of 26 after his two children and wife died in ...

In 2005 he completed the traditional nine years of [[shedra]] studies and began to teach texts such as Chandrakirti's ''[[M ...

From 1953 he spent two years at [[Dzongsar Monastery]] where he met his principal guru, [[Jamyang Khyent ...

Later, when he was 25 years old, he left Repkong and became a wandering practitioner, and went for a pi :One night, when he was twenty-five years old, he jumped out of the window and he escaped. He left everything, and be ...

...[[Amdo]], who spent much of his life in mountain retreats, including three years on the inaccessible island of Tsonying Mahadewa in the middle of Lake Kokon ...

...hro phu lo tsA ba rin chen seng+ge'', b. 1173). Shakyashri remained for 10 years in Tibet, during which time he gave many [[empowerment]]s and teachings. Li ...

...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 ...

...d places in the world with an archaeological record spanning four thousand years, and is the most important place in India for followers of Hinduism. The he ...

...Buddhist murals in western Sichuan. Its paintings, which are more than 270 years old and cover more than 370 square meters, survived the destruction of the ...

...that those buddhas can bring to beings who live in the final five hundred years, when the holy Dharma is on the verge of disappearing. Shakyamuni agrees to ...

...were urging him to take a consort to prolong his life. For the next eleven years she served as his attendant and devoted companion, receiving countless teac Khandro continued to live there for many years after Jamyang Khyentse passed away in 1959, quietly devoting her life to co ...

...935. He left Tibet in 1959 following the Chinese invasion which began some years earlier. Since then, His Holiness has resided in Dharamsala, India, the sit ...d with sincere devotion, I wish that His Holiness live for many, many more years in the very best of health, and so see all his aspirations come alive and b ...

:Years later, [[Gyurme Ngedön Wangpo]], Dudjom Lingpa’s disciple, informed me h ...

...ktik], but later said that these three hours had extended his life for ten years.' [source?] ...water from a full vase into an empty one. It was not a dream. After three years of retreat, practising the long life methods in the cave, the two of them, ...

During the forty-five years the Buddha taught, he granted thousands of sutra teachings to his disciples ...

...passed away deliberately and reincarnated as [[Sakya Trizin]] who for many years was the throne holder of the Sakya tradition. ...

..., or one to which they are tied | N. of the forty-second year of the sixty years' cycle of Jupiter | N. of certain Ketus {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti ...

...e text, Dudjom Lingpa reports that his vision remained secret for eighteen years until the circumstances were appropriate for it to be written down:<Ref>Ala :The above [the Neluk Rangjung] remained as a command for eighteen human years. At the end of that time, when the appropriate circumstances came to pass, ...

After he passed away, his corpse remained for three years without decay, during which time it continued to benefit beings by speaking ...

...[[yidam]] and [[dakini]] practices from the Dudjom Tersar fully for three years. I have done absolutely everything I could to fulfill whatever Rinpoche ask ==Recent Years== ...

...water from a full vase into an empty one. It was not a dream. After three years of retreat, practicing the long life methods in the cave, the two of them, ...berated throughout space along with countless other wonders. Then for many years he kept the terma secret. It was meant to be revealed for the first time to ...

He has spent years in retreat in remote caves and monasteries in the Himalayas, with hidden yo ...

.....] Since these pretas do not find anything to eat or drink for months and years on end, their bodies are emaciated like skeletons and they lack even the st ...

...g of the Sakya nation. It then recounts his escape from the palace and the years of hardship he faced in his quest for spiritual awakening. Finally the sutr ...ly any new research on this sūtra has been published during the last sixty years. As such the only thing we can currently say concerning the sources and ori ...

...carnation. My own [[tulku]] lineage is an example of this. There was a 130 years hiatus between the death of the First Pema Norbu in 1757 and the birth of t ...

...hem he also gives his age in that year. However, he only gives the Tibetan years and doesn't supply the Rabjung cycle, so the following are estimates. Yet i ...

...a) (1922-2002) was born in 1922 in the Kham Region of Tibet. When he was 4 years old, several lamas, including the [[Thirteenth Dalai Lama]], [[Minling Tric ...

...n five times, three times as an individual scripture, over a period of 500 years.<ref>Thomas Cleary, ''The Flower Ornament Scripture''.</ref> ...

...clinic became Dzongsar Tibetan Hospital in 1981. Over the past twenty five years, has provided free medicine and health care to monks and villagers. Has bee ...

...i Sangye Gyatso kept the death of the [[Fifth Dalai Lama]] secret for many years, one reason being to complete the [[Potala]] palace and to keep the adminis ...

...ing’s eldest son, assumed the throne of Tibet. But he only ruled for three years and six months because he was murdered–poisoned–by one of Trison Deutse ...

...er Chinese pilgrim, who visited after Hsüan-tsang and stayed for about ten years, reports that there were about 3500 monks in residence at that time. ...

...nd met all the great teachers who passed through the centre in those early years. He received teachings and empowerments from Kyabje [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] and ...

...n badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution and then neglected over the years, fulfilling another of the duties of a Karmapa. During the 13 years he has lived in India, His Holiness has followed his traditional monastic t ...

...forced to ask myself, where is this “me” I’ve been pursuing? At twenty-one years old, after dropping out of school, leaving a new marriage, barely able to t ...

==Final Years== ...

...senior student of Dudjom Rinpoche and has been his personal attendant many years ago. Ani Kuzang is a very strong practitioner and lama and now leads a grou ...ings from beings from the three other realms of existence . After about 25 years in meditation, at the age of 87, he passed away from this realm in Khawalun ...

...[[Mindroling Monastery]] in Dehra Dun. After six years there he spent two years in Varanasi, teaching at the [[Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies] ...

...it was notoriously difficult to meet Dodrup Jikmé Tenpé Nyima in his later years, Tsullo was able to do so because of his work as a scribe. He copied many t ...told of the problem, he felt, "I have been teaching for more than 30 over years and yet my teachings have not helped those people, even my own people are n ...

...outh he practised intensively, and stayed in retreat for a total of twenty years. He had four sons, each of whom is now an important Buddhist master in his ...rk, Holland, Great Britain, the USA, Hong Kong and Singapore. In his later years, however, he did not travel much and his many students, both Eastern and We ...

...speech, answer, reply | subsequent result, future consequence | in future years | followed by | N. of a son of Virāṭa | of a king of the Nāgas | N. of ...

...as the activity emanation of [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]]. In the following years of his youth he was tutored by Khenpo Thupten in grammar, astrology, Sanskr ...urme Pema Namgyal]], who became one of his principal masters. The next few years of his life he visited many monasteries of the [[four schools|four main sch ...

::*Ralwa (Wyl. ''ral pa''), a breakage not confessed within three years. :Once three years have elapsed, according to some tantras, a breakage is ‘irrevocable’. ...

...for his strict discipline and for the hardships he endured during fifteen years in retreat. It is said that he accomplished 4,100,000 [[prostration]]s duri ...

...enpo]]. When he was thirteen he went to Lopön Tatang Jawa. He stayed three years studying the [[Abhidharma]], the [[Shyijé]] yogas and so on. At fifteen he ...

...gence is never being satisfied by a little, or a few months, or even a few years of virtuous practice, and instead exerting yourself to practise throughout ...

...revious) incarnation of Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche lived near Medok for several years and had many local liaisons. When Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche travelled through P ===First years in Powo=== ...

==Final Years== ...

...Tamdrin Wangyal recognized Tulku Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche (when he was 15 years old) as he was recognized as the reincarnation of [[Longsal Nyingpo]]. Tulk ...

...al defense of Lhasa as His Holiness escaped. Tsipon Shugba, after nineteen years of imprisonment, was brought to America by his sons in 1980. During his imp In his latter years Khen Rinpoche resided in Berkeley, California, where he lived until he depa ...

...ere. They lived together at Dzigar Monastery and Wangdor Rinpoche spent 12 years receiving Dzogchen teachings from Thuksey Rinpoche. Thuksey Rinpoche was th Wangdor Rinpoche meditated spontaneously early in life and spent over 60 years in cave retreat, under the direction of [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] and [[Khunu Lam ...

...drakirti famously debated with [[Chandragomin]] in [[Nalanda]] for several years before realizing that the lay master was secretly receiving help each night ...

...t of [[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], he was imprisoned by the Chinese for many years, during which he gave [[Dzogchen]] teachings, such as ''[[Yeshe Lama]]'' an ...

...as a student of [[Orgyen Tendzin Norbu]] with whom he studied for thirteen years and from whom he received the oral explanation lineage of Paltrul Rinpoche. ...

...Exile for 13 years before moving to the United States in 1979. In those 13 years, Rinpoche worked at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala ...

..., in a tent of white wool, a wisdom-space Dakini prophesied, 'After three years have passed, three supreme heart sons will appear. One will bear the name o ...

...n 1891 in [[Golok]] Serta, a part of Eastern Tibet. In 1899, when he was 8 years old, he was blessed by the great tertön Dudjom Lingpa who had established ...tions of the ngondrö in Shukgang hermitage, staying there during about two years. ...

At around fifteen years old, around 1935, Lama Chime Rinpoche met for the first time Dudjom Rinpoch During six years, Lama Chime Rinpoche stayed in the region of Kongpo. ...

...re of mind. He was awarded the title of [[khenpo]] after taking just seven years to complete the traditional nine-year curriculum in Buddhist philosophy at ...

...urned to Kham in 1750. He visited Lhasa again in 1762, and spent the final years of his life travelling throughout Kham. He passed away on the 24th of the s ...

...eft Tibet and went to [[Sikkim]] with his parents where he lived for a few years. People say that he used to follow his father wherever he went. In 1967 Cho Rinpoche also attended [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] for many years, and it was with him that he first went to the West. After he first taught ...

...t, studying with various masters in different monasteries during seventeen years. ==Final Years== ...

...Sogan Rinpoche Natsok Rangdrol, and staying with him at Awo Sera for many years, teaching and revealing terma to an ever-growing circle of disciples. ...

...ce of other material belongings. Thus, his departure was delayed for a few years’ time. ==Final Years== ...

At twelve, he studied the [[sutra]]s for three years at [[Lumo Rab]], a monastery which has a very strong connection with the gr ...

...Nyingtik]]. Nyang Tingdzin Zangpo practised these teachings for fifty-five years, totally purifying his mind and attaining ultimate realization. After havin ...

==Final Years== ...

...Guenther]]. He lectured on Buddhist and comparative philosophy for over 25 years in the United States, Asia, and Europe. In 1994 he was awarded a Rockefelle ...

...purity of his teaching. He arrived in Tibet in 1042 and spent the last ten years of his life there, teaching and translating texts, and was instrumental in ...

He spent more than fourteen years in retreat, and was a [[tertön]].<ref> According to the [http://www.mindro ...

...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 ...

...dorn the body of a buddha, which had become somewhat indistinct during his years of austerity, immediately became distinct and resplendent. ...Lekshe, his physical form, which had become emaciated from his six years of austerity, was restored to its full vigor and majesty, causing ...

...ley in 2011. As advised by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, he served for three years as Shedra principal from 2013. ...

...fteen, he went to study logic and philosophy at Gomang Monastery for seven years. He left the monastery at the age of twenty-two in order to wander in searc ...

...n | N. of the 27th Kalpa | of the 8th (42nd) year in Jupiter's cycle of 60 years | (in gram.) the fundamental notion of the verb, the sense conveyed by the ...

#practicing austerities for six years (''dka' ba spyad pa''), ...

...3 with the arrival of [[Khenpo Kunga Wangchuk]] who had spent more than 20 years in prison under the Chinese. ...

...Ref>Tashi Chöling was founded in 1980 by [[Gyatrul Rinpoche]]. For over 20 years, students have gathered here to study and practice the ancient spiritual tr ...

..., she married Chatral Sangye Dorje, and they remained together for over 50 years until the passing of Chatral Sangye Dorje in 2015. ...

...particular treasure was revealed by Dudjom Lingpa, and kept secret for 44 years. When Dudjom Lingpa felt it was the right time, he opened the practice, rec ...

...secret and the texts were left at [[Mindroling]] monastery and later lost. Years later in exile in Nepal, [[Trulshik Rinpoche]] heard about this practice as ...

At the age of 13, he entered [[Rumtek Monastery]] and spent the next eleven years studying the Karma Kagyü, Drikung Kagyü and Nyingma traditions under the ...

...ref> on the northern slopes of [[Mount Everest]]. He also studied for many years at [[Mindroling Monastery]]. ...

...ted head lama to Phulung along with his two servants for a period of three years. Shatrul and Sangtrul (Sangs sprul), the second incarnate lama of Phulung R When [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] was thirty years old [1933-34], he resided at the hermitage of Ösel Tekchok Ling at Pulung ...

...im, and slowly the [[Namkha Khyung Dzong]] place was established. Over the years, this tradition became known as the Namkha Khyung Dzong Tradition. #Chhoje Rinpoche 7th, (Wyl. ''chos rje rin po che'') who accomplished six years of retreat under the guidance of Degyal Rinpoche ...

[[Chak Lotsawa]] spent eleven years in Magadha from 1232 to 1241, mainly in Bodhgaya and Nalanda, as the sacred ...

...odhisattva Asanga performed the practice of Lord Maitreya for twelve human years, he met Maitreya face-to-face and was led to the heavenly realm of [[Tushit ...

:'In the past, I was twenty-three years old, one night in a dream a white man with a gold topknot appeared saying h ...

For several years now, following the advice of [[His Holiness Sakya Trizin]], the [[About Rig ...

In 1893, when he was 9 years old, Tulku Lhatop was brought by his father Dudjom Lingpa to Taktsé Samdru ...

...the Buddha. According to [[Patrul Rinpoche]], King Dza had his visions 28 years after the [[parinirvana]] of the Buddha.</ref> After praying to Vajrapani, ...

...Rinpoche left Domang, but was later captured and imprisoned for twenty-two years. After his eventual release in 1981, he returned to Domang to find his mona ...

...ed him in November 1979, and remained his devoted student for twenty-three years. At the time of her ordination as a [[lama]] in 1997, Rinpoche invested her ...

...ng Jampa; a unique archive film documenting lamas who have taught over the years at Rigpa’s centres and retreats was shown; and a brief presentation of Ri ...at [[Prapoutel]], near Grenoble in France. And it was exactly one hundred years, in the very same week according to the Tibetan calendar, since Lerab Lingp ...

:In the past, I was twenty-three years old [1867]. For a while I stayed in retreat relying on the meditation and r ...

By the time he was three years old he was recognized as the incarnation of the previous Chagdud Tulku, [[C :“For the next seven years, until I went into [[three-year retreat]] at the age of eleven, my life wo ...

...]'s history of the teachings, the list pre-dates the movement by about 200 years. The list may be derived from an earlier list of the most important figures ...

...full moon day in the Trumtö month, I, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, was thirty-four years old and doing practice to make the dharma nectar medicine according to the In 1948, eleven years after its discovery, Dudjom Rinpoche wrote a very clear, condensed version ...

...objects were completely destroyed, and Rinpoche was imprisoned for fifteen years. Although Adeu Rinpoche suffered a great deal, the period in prison gave hi ...

In recent years, the text was taught and commented upon extensively by [[Ngawang Tendzin No ...

...he printing of Gorampa’s writings, Lama Jamyang Gyaltsen had to spend many years searching throughout [[Central Tibet]] before he had found all the texts an ...

...g as the Fifth Dalai Lama was born in a Nyingma family. In 1676, just four years before the discovery of the Lord of the Dance terma, the relatively small i .... Two to three years later, Chiwong gaves its first performance. Only many years later did Mani Rimdu came to Thami (the first complete performance in 1950, ...

In recent years, Master Tam initiated the organization of the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies ...

He gave teachings for many years, after which because of ill-health he lived in seclusion at a hermitage cal ...

...an influential commentator of Buddhist scriptures, having resided for ten years at Wutai Shan wrote: ...s with Bhelakirti. After taking ordination, he practised discipline for 30 years.<ref>[[Tulku Thondup]], ''Masters of Meditation and Miracles'', p.62.</ref> ...

...close to his own Dhondenling residence. Work began in 1985, three hundred years after the completion of the original Dzogchen Monastery in eastern Tibet. ...

..., after completing a two and a half year retreat, he was imprisoned for 20 years during the political turmoil of China's Cultural Revolution. While in the l ...

...are Hinduism and Buddhism which have coexisted peacefully for hundreds of years. ...

When he was eight years old, Kunga Yeshe began his study of grammar and poetics and first received ...ere in the Water Hare year (1423), at the age of 27. For the next thirteen years, he put all his energy into practising the teachings he had received in Cen ...

===Training in Mindrolling from 8 to 17 years old=== In his youth in Tibet he studied for nine years at [[Mindroling Monastery]]. According to Thinley Norbu Rinpoche himself<Re ...

...with the whole land of Tibet from Ladakh to Tachienlu under his rule. Ten years later he was invited to Beijing by the emperor Shun-chih, where he was trea ...

In 1851, during a night, Dudjom Lingpa, then aged only 21 years old, was foretold by a [[dakini]] that he will forge a meaningful connectio ...

...pa|Six Yogas]], [[Lamdré]], [[Kalachakra]] and [[Chöd]], and spent several years studying at [[Katok monastery]], all the while combining his studies with m ...o. He travelled to Switzerland for medical treatment, and then spent eight years in the Dordogne area of France, sometimes teaching at the three year retrea ...

...hadra]] to [[Dudjom Lingpa]] in a [[pure vision]] when he was twenty-seven years old (the year 1862). ...

...event is something we can hardly comprehend. Only in the future, over the years to come, and as its reverberations are felt, will a realization slowly dawn ...

More than a thousand years ago, Tibet’s great Buddhist king, [[King Trisong Detsen]], ascended the t ...

==Final Years== ...

...lected and meditated upon today, and have not diminished after almost 2550 years, is due to the kindness of these great scholars. I therefore composed this ...Snake year in the seventeenth calendrical cycle (15th December 2001), 2545 years after the Buddha according to the [[Theravadin]] system.'' ...

...sions of the [[Kangyur]] and [[Tengyur]], he entered into retreat for four years during which his master gave him all the transmissions of the Palyul tradit ...stery]], with its more than four hundred branch monasteries. He spent many years at Palyul, studying and receiving teachings from numerous masters and schol ...

[[Chagdud Khadro]] was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1946. Thirty-one years later she left her life as magazine fact-checker and free-lance writer in N ...bell]] at him when he blew his [[kangling]] badly during a ceremony. Fifty years later, for him that moment was still vivid. ...

When he was twelve years old, the great Sakyapa lama spent six months in strict retreat<ref>The loca ...

...pchen Rinpoche vowed never to leave it again and stayed there for next ten years of his live.<ref>See Tulku Thondup, ''Masters of Meditation and Miracles'', ...

When Tulku Theglo Rinpoche was five years old, he was enthroned and entered the [[Dodrupchen Monastery]] in Golok. He ...

...n of [[Vimalamitra]], who foretold that he would appear once every hundred years. ...

...alizing all the teachings he had previously received. Later, he spent many years with his second root teacher [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]], also an i ...

After remaining in a strict meditation retreat for three years, according to the prophecy of Guru Padmasambhava, Jedrung Trinlé Jampa Jun ...

When Dudjom Rinpoche was eight years old, he began to study [[Shantideva]]'s ''[[Bodhicharyavatara]]'' with his In the final decade of his life, in spite of ill-health and advancing years, he devoted much of his time to teaching in the West, where he successfully ...

...inaugurated the shedra in 1918 and then taught there during its first two years. His students at the time included Khenpo Jamyang Gyaltsen, also known as K ...hrough founding shedras, teaching almost continuously for more than twenty years, and establishing the basis of the curriculum in many shedras through his w ...

...Maha Kyilung at the time was Akhu Gendün Gyatso, who had studied for five years at [[Dzogchen Shri Singha]]. ...his first of the three return visits to Tibet he was to make in his later years. Soon after, he travelled to Nepal and stayed at [[Shechen Monastery]] for ...

...her, before leaving Tibet. At that time I must have been only two or three years old, but I remember meeting her, staying with her at a restaurant. ...

When she was 7 years old, she received from her father Apang Tertön the whole transmission of t When she was only 9 years old, her father passed away. Khandro Tare Lhamo sold all the jewels she own ...

Several years later, when Dudjom Rinpoche was consecrating the newly built Trashigang Dzo ...

...ndredfold, and they would remain, without ever declining, for five hundred years. Now, when I see the work of Sogyal Rinpoche, I am convinced that he is the ...

...l''). The oldest, word-for-word commentary, probably composed within fifty years of the root text. It survives in two Sanskrit manuscripts and Tibetan trans ...

...le from floods. Unfortunately, the temple disappeared completely within 40 years after its constructions.<ref name="ftn2">Matthew Akester, “The ‘Vajra T ...

...hat several days participating in a drupchen can yield the same results as years of solitary retreat, and great contemporary masters such as Kyabjé [[Dilgo ...

...ndredfold, and they would remain, without ever declining, for five hundred years. Now, when I see the work of Sogyal Rinpoche, I am convinced that he is the ...

...ces. Together with [[Rangjung Dorje]], Longchenpa accompanied them for two years, during which time he received all of Rigdzin Kumaradza's transmissions and After several years in retreat, Lonchenpa attracted more and more students, even though he had ...

:Born in the Lhatok region of [[Kham]], in his early years Yongé Mingyur Dorje had visions of [[Padmasambhava]], [[Karma Pakshi]], [[ ...

...e perpetual torma (rtag gtor) is kept for a specific duration of months or years. The sādhana torma, (sgrub gtor) also called the offering torma (mchod gto ...

...nastery revitalized the Karma Kagyü lineage in Eastern Tibet. For over 500 years, the successive Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoches have served as Vajra Regents for ...the great yogi and siddha [[Khyungpo Naljor]] (990-1139), who spent fifty years studying in India, Nepal and Tibet. Among his many teachers were the two wi ...

...he was appointed to be the supreme head of the Nyingma Tradition for three years. ...

*2002-2003 Water Horse year 2129 includes a report of the first 25 years of Rigpa ...

...achieve the [[rainbow body]]. If not, then by living for eighty or ninety years, we become a good practitioner whose realisation is as vast as space, and w ...

...’ (Tib. རྗེས་དྲན་, ''[[jé dren]]''). When Jamyang Khyentse was twenty-four years old, he visited the sacred place of Uyuk in the [[Tsang]] province of Centr ...chings and kept them secret for many years. Then, when he was thirty-eight years old, the protectress [[Ekadzati]] requested him to disclose these teachings ...

...stay small for ever, they grow up and don’t always wait until they are 18 years old before they leave home. ...nk it’s so strange. But actually they can’t understand until they are four years old anyway. So, do a simple practice, not a strict one, and every so often ...

...tara]]'' with the Sakya Khenpo Khedrub, who stayed at Namdroling for three years. He decided to study the ''Bodhicharyavatara'' with [[Khunu Lama Tenzin Gya ...

...by his understanding. At the age of fifteen, he went into retreat for many years. ...in Terkong, in present day Upper Pemakö. There, he encountered the sixteen years old Dakini named [[Namgyal Drolma]], from the family line of [[Ratna Lingpa ...

...ma Gyurme|the third Neten Chokling Rinpoche]]. When Rinpoche was just nine years old, his father passed away. Soon after this His Holiness [[Dilgo Khyentse ...

...hom he happily spent the remainder of his time in Tibet before 1959. Three years before the Chinese army arrived, he moved to [[Lhasa]] with his wife and so ...is guru's guidance he did [[Richö]], a solitary mountain retreat, for four years including ngöndro, [[tsa-lung]] and [[Dzogchen]], progressing through the ...

#practicing austerities for six years (''dka' ba spyad pa''), ...

Following this, he remained for several years, doing his own practice in a small house which he had built in a place call Towards the end of his life, he returned for just four years to his former residence in Gangtok. He explained that he preferred to stay ...

...The Nyingma School'', p. 949, puts his birth in the Wood Monkey year, five years after the parinirvana of Lord Buddha, in the Iron Dragon year. </ref> on th ...ng Tsal, ‘The Powerful Lotus-born, with a Garland of Skulls’. For thirteen years Padmasambhava and Mandarava remained to teach in Oddiyana, as a result of w ...

...distinguished himself through his study and his intellect. The last thirty years of his life were dedicated to teaching, writing, founding monasteries and o ...

:[[Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche]] sent us the Wang Dü prayer by fax, many years ago, saying we should do it. It was also [[Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche]]‘s sugg ...

...ctice of [[Dzogchen]], the Great Perfection. He taught for over forty-five years and founded the international network of Buddhist centres and groups to whi After forty years as Spiritual Director of Rigpa, Sogyal Rinpoche stepped down following accu ...

...t could hold up to 700 people had just been erected. It would take 12 more years until the construction of the famous Lerab Ling temple. More than five hund ...s of being Lerab Lingpa's reincarnation. It was only when I was fifty four years old that I was able to travel to his seat, and there I tried, in every way ...

...la Pema Dündul’s other revelations from Anyé Tulku when he was twenty four years old, in 1946. ...

...ble. It is possible to count the number of raindrops falling during twelve years of monsoon, but the merit of uttering the Six Syllables just once cannot be ...

...de sure there would be no obstacles. It was finally concealed there twelve years after he departed from Tibet. Then centuries later Chokgyur Lingpa discover ...

...mind of the White Rhinoceros Werma was first written down during the three years of the Fire Ox (1877), Earth Hare (1879) and Iron Dragon (1880) of the 15th ...

...Rinpoche identified the child in of the village, and invited the then four years old Trulshik Rinpoche to visit him in [[Rongpuk Monastery]], in the Shelkar In Lhasa, around the years 1956-1959, Trulshik Rinpoche established a connection with Jamyang Khyentse ...

...ains, herding a small flock of goats and sheep. There, for the next twenty years, he secretly engaged in meditation and occasionally taught small numbers of ...

...lated a vast number of prostrations and other practices during his fifteen years of strict retreat.</ref>. In addition, he received instruction on ''[[tsa-l ...of the Bodhisattva]]'' in the vicinity of Dzogchen Shri Singha for several years in succession, large numbers of flowers called Serchen, with between thirty ...

...the latter part of the second incalculable eon, in which there are as many years as there are grains of sand in the Ganges River. The following dawn you wil ...

...period is marked by activities of Nyingmapa teachers. More than a hundred years later, monks (and nuns?) of the [[Kagyü]] and [[Jonang]] found their way i ...

...to great renown as a treasure revealer in his short life-span of forty-one years. After his passing, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo had a vision in which he saw Ch ...

...rks the measure of time by months, a serpent round his neck the measure by years, and a second necklace of skulls with other serpents about his person, the ...

...r north east to the central region of Tibet<ref>He would have been sixteen years old at the time.</ref>, he journeyed through Trehor, and was received by a ...fers were refused, they were forced to continue in their posts for several years. All the while, they persistently pleaded for resignation, until finally, w ...

*[[Dharma Mati]], Germany, 7 July 2022, ''What will Buddhism look like in 30 years?'' ...

He returned to Lhasa several more times in the following years, and travelled widely, revealing more termas including [[Tendrel Nyesel]], ...

...Earth Tiger year (1758), although he kept it concealed for a further seven years: ...e most profound of treasures! Samaya! I kept the seal of secrecy for seven years before I wrote it down. These instructions are more precious than my very o ...

...te secrecy. Tertöns are often instructed to keep termas secret for several years before transmitting them to the prophesied recipients. Then at Dokhoma near ...

...g is under the supervision of Dampuk Rinpoche who has dedicated his recent years to its reconstruction. There is an Assembly Hall, a Zangdok Palri-style tem ...

...nd ten tulkus. It has been visited by Moktsa Tulku of Katok, who in recent years has been responsible for the reconstruction of the mother monastery. Meanwh ...

...and decoded the [[Vajrakilaya]] ter of Yang Sang Tröpa and then spent five years practising it as indicated in the [[prophetic guide]] (''khajang''). Finall ...ngpo which had been taken from the Vajravarahi cave at Drakkar Lhachu four years earlier. ...

...ra]], who had studied the [[Nyingtik]] teachings with him for seventy-five years, saw him in the sky, surrounded by light, and cried out “Alas, alas! O va ...

For more than twenty years, he focused his practice on the key points of the generation and completion ...

...as part of his book tour, and the shedra returned to Lerab Ling after two years in [[Dzogchen Beara]] and featured teachings by [[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]] on ...

...needed for our practice upon the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] [[sangha]] over the years, in particular, Kyabjé [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] in 1987 and 1990, Kyabj ...

...nds [[Dezhung Rinpoche]] of [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]]'s request 20 years before that [[Dezhung Rinpoche]] write a supplement to the biography of [[G ...

* Gutschow, Niels. ''The Nepalese Caitya: 1500 Years of Buddhist Votive Architecture in the Kathmandu Valley''. Stuttgart: Editi ...

You develop devotion once you have taken many years of your life, and considerable trouble, to check that the person who claims ...ou are the man, the guide, the guru, who I have been looking for all these years.” But at that moment of reaction, such a student is not checking himself ...

Jikme Lingpa kept this terma secret for years, and he did not even transcribe the terma until he entered another retreat ...

Buddhism and western science: In more recent years this open spirit of inquiry has also resulted in an active and a mutually i ...

...ndrabhuti, which probably appeared over a period of at least more that 200 years, scholars have suggested that there was more than one author named Indrabhu ...

:Over the years, in [[Kongpo]], Lhasa and Kalimpong, Dudjom Rinpoche wrote more Khandro Tuk ...

Jikmé Lingpa kept this terma secret for years, and he did not even transcribe the terma until he entered another retreat ...

...'s collected works have originally been printed in five volumes. In recent years a book version in seven volumes has been produced. His most important works ...(''man ngag zab mo rdo rje'i mtshon cha''), written in 1895 when he was 31 years old. ...

The town of Ngawa itself has grown extensively in recent years. It is a vitally important and thriving trading town, with scenic hill-top ...

...the great yogi and siddha [[Khyungpo Naljor]] (990-1139), who spent fifty years studying in India, Nepal and Tibet. Among his many teachers were the two wi ...

...

...asteries. As of now, the area is not open to foreigners, however in recent years many westerners have visited Larung Gar, one of the world’s biggest Buddh ...

...Marpa Lotsawa]] first heard of the name of [[Naropa]] and stayed for three years “to get used to the heat”, according to the instruction of his [[Newar] ...

...he gained renown, Tsé-chu was with him at least since Dudjom Lingpa was 37 years old. In his biography, Dudjom Lingpa recounts: '[In 1872], compelled by joy ...

In the same manner, when Dudjom Rinpoche was eight years old, he began to study Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara with his teacher [[Li ...

...s sbyor mu tig gi chun po''). It was written when Jigme Tenpa Nyima was 23 years old (in 1887) in the [[Garden of Immortality]], the empowerment room of Jam ...

...e debates were about how to put the truth into words: The debate of twelve years between Chandrakirti and Chandragomin - Regarding memory -The key-word in M ...

...hen I was twenty years old in the year of the Male Earth Monkey. For seven years I kept the seal of secrecy. Later on, combined with the perfect coincidence ...f the Earth Monkey [7.11. 1848]. Having kept the seal of secrecy for eight years, on the 10th day of the tenth month at the Kartika constellation in the yea ...

In recent times, archeological research in Swat conducted over the last 20 years, revealed many images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas<ref name="ftn30"> Filigen ...

...e most profound of treasures! Samaya! I kept the seal of secrecy for seven years before I wrote it down. These instructions are more precious than my very o ...onial tent, The wisdom ḍākinī of all-pervading space told me: “After three years have passed Three supreme heart-sons will appear—One who is courageous an ...