Jigme Pema Wangchen

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The 12th Gyelwang Drugpa Jigme Pema Wangchen
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
འཇིགས་ མེད་ པད་ མ་ དབང་ ཆེན
Wylie transliteration :
'jigs med pad ma dbang chen
Other spellings:
Jigme Pema Wangchen

Jigme Pema Wangchen ( Tib. 'Jigs med pad ma dbang chen ), b. 1963, is the 12th Gyelwang Drugpa ( rgyal dbang 'brug pa ), or Drukchen Rinpoche, who is considered the highest clergyman in the Drugpa-Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism .

Jigme Pema's father is Bairo Tulku Rinpoche , 36th incarnation of Vairocana and former abbot of Kathok Sichen Monastery in Kham , eastern Tibet. His mother, Kelsang Yudron, called Mayumla, comes from Lhodrak and was a student of important lamas. Jigme Pema Wangchen was born in Tso Pema ( Rewalsar , Himachal Pradesh , India ) in 1963 . His parents made a pilgrimage there to attend the traditional lama dances in honor of Padmasambhava's birthday . He got his name from Düdjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje personally.

The XI. Drukchen Rinpoche, Tenzing Khenrab Geleg Wangpo, died in 1960 in a refugee camp at the age of 30 after the exertions of his escape from Tibet. The rebirth of the deceased was sought for six years. Jigme Pema was not found in Dalhousie until 1966 . The Dalai Lama and the XVI. The Karmapa officially recognized him as the XII. Print Rinpoche on. A year later, in 1967, he was formally enthroned in Darjeeling . The upbringing of the young Rinpoche was mainly in the hands of Thuksay Rinpoche . This, the biological son of X. Drukchen Rinpoche, had already trained his successor and was regent of the monastic order during the vacancy . Under his guidance, Jigme Pema Wangchen learned the literature and traditional rituals of Tibetan Buddhism.

Since he came of age, the XII. Drukchen Rinpoche presented numerous monasteries in the Himalayan region , but also centers abroad. He resides in his main monastery, Druk Thupten Sangag Choeling in Darjeeling.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the whole: Lama Surya Das, “The Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa”, Barre, Ma., USA, 1992, pp. 3–6; see autobiography of Drukchen Rinpoche (German)

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personal data
SURNAME Wangchen, Jigme Pema
BRIEF DESCRIPTION 12. Gyelwang Drugpa of the Drugpa Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Rewalsar , Himachal Pradesh , India