Dagom Rinpoche
Dagom Rinpoche | |
|---|---|
| File:Dagomr.jpg | |
| Title | Rinpoche |
| Personal | |
| Died | 2007 |
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| School | Gelugpa |
| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Trijang Rinpoche |
| Reincarnation | Tulku |
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Dagom Rinpoche was a Gelug incarnate lama (tulku) and a direct disciple of Trijang Rinpoche, the junior tutor to the 14th Dalai Lama, from whom he received most of his heart instructions. According to his students it is believed that Rinpoche was a holder the Ganden 'Ear-Whispered' Lineage until his death in 2007.
Biography[edit]
Dagom Rinpoche was recognized as the 12th Dagom Tulku by the third Trijang Tinpoche, Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso. He took novice ordination at the age of nine and full ordination as a Bhikshu, at the age of 21 years old.
At the age of 8 and until he was 25, Dagom Rinpoche studied the major and minor Tibetan sciences in Drepung Gomang Monastery in South India. Right after completing these studies, for many years, he continued to receive further teachings from such masters as Trijang Rinpoche, Ling Rinpoche, Gyara Rinpoche, Zong Rinpoche, Zemey Rinpoche, and Yongzin Kunchok Gyatso. He received all the teachings, empowerments and oral transmissions. In 1983, after completing his studies, he received the degree of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree in the Tibetan monastic system. In 1987, Rinpoche passed the tantric examinations and served as the Headmaster of Gyume Tantric College in Hunsur, India. Since then, he has given sutra and tantra transmissions to over a hundred thousand disciples in Ladakh, India, Nepal, the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Singapore, and Mongolia.
From April 3, 1989, at Samten ling Monastery in Nepal for the commemoration of the passing of H.H. Panchen Lama, for twenty-two days, Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche gave instructions on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the initiation of Vajrabhairava to 260 disciples including Gangchen Chogtrul Rinpoche, Lingka Chogtrul Rinpoche, the abbot of Samten Ling Monastery, the abbot of Shelkar Monastery, the master of Chozang Monastery, and the master of Segyu Monastery. Then, from March 26 until May 3, 1990, for a month and twenty-seven days, Rinpoche gave the profound oral instructions of Pabongkha's Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand to 780 monks, nuns and lay disciples including Ganden Jangtse Serkong Chogtrul Rinpoche, Drepung Loseling Drubtob Rinpoche and the masters of seven different monasteries in Nepal. At Ganden Jamgon Ling Monastery near Swayambu, Nepal, on May 4 and 5 of that year, Rinpoche gave Avalokiteshvara initiation and advice to more than a thousand Tibetans.
In 1991 from March 3 to April 23 at Drepung Gomang Monastery, Dagom Rinpoche gave oral transmission of ten volumes of the collected works of Je Tsongkhapa, 13 Deity Yamantaka initiation, as well as the 13 Mahakala initiations and transmission of the 5 major fields of studies’ root texts to Sharpa Choeje Lobsang Nyima, Trijang Chogtrul Rinpoche, Gyara Chogtrul Rinpoche, Kyabje Zong Chogtrul Rinpoche, and Lakha Chogtrul Rinpoche, as well as many Geshes, over three hundred monks and lay people.[citation needed]
In that same year from May 28 for about one month at the Ladakh Zanskar Duzing Podrang, Dagom Rinpoche gave instructions on the 8 great commentaries on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment to more than three hundred disciples. On June 30 he also gave teachings on generating bodhicitta and the White Umbrella initiation to more than 4000 people of Zanskar in India.
In the year 1992, Rinpoche established the Ganden Monlam Chenmo Dharma Center and Dagom Migtsema Dharma Center in Nepal. On that same occasion Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche presided as throne holder of Nepal's Ganden Monlam Chenmo for five days over the gathering of more than 800 Sangha members from Nyanang Phegya Ling Monastery, Samten Ling Monastery, Gaden Jamgon Ling Monastery, Shelkar Monastery, Segyu Monastery, Drupthok Monastery, Thukjechoe Ling Nunnery and Kopan Nunnery. Dagom Rinpoche also gave teachings on Legends of Buddha’s Birth and performed prayers for all deceased and living beings. From that time on, a Ganden Monlam Chenmo Festival has been held every year.
In India Dagom Rinpoche established Jangchub Tensung Dorje Center in Lingshed Monastery and the Lhasa Monlam Festival in Zanskar. In 1996, Rinpoche established Dagom Gaden Tensung Ling[1] in Bloomington, Indiana and Dagom Tsongkhapa Dharma Center in Massachusetts (USA).
In the year 1997 Rinpoche visited Mongolia for six months, giving teachings and tantric initiations to thousands of monks and lay people. During the month of May in Hentic Almic, Mongolia, the local practitioners requested Rinpoche to bring rain and afterwards it rained.[citation needed]
In the year 1999 Rinpoche founded Dagom Choeling Dharma Center in Minneapolis, USA.
After being a fully ordained monk for ten years, Rinpoche started to give ordination to other people according to the rules of the Vinaya, which is an important basis of Buddha Dharma. From then on, Rinpoche has bestowed Novice ordination on more than five hundred people and Bhikshu ordination on several dozen people.
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For a long time Dagom Rinpoche taught the Buddha Dharma and gave spiritual advice to thousands of students throughout the world. His disciples claim that Rinpoche did not at all like to deal with politics and only gave spiritual and truthful advice. Rinpoche’s faith and respect in the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden remained firm and unchanging from early childhood throughout hid life. Some claim that because of this some Tibetan political officials in Dharamsala after 1996, made intense effort to split Rinpoche’s many faithful disciples away from him. Rinpoche passed away in 2007.[2]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Dagom Gaden "Dagom Gaden" Check
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