Orgyen Lingpa

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : o rgyan gling pa
Other spellings: Orgyen Lingpa
Chinese name
Simplified : 邬 坚 领 巴
Pinyin : Wujian Lingba

Orgyen Lingpa ( Tib. O rgyan gling pa ; * 1329 ; † 1367 or 1360 ), also known as the madman of treasures (gter smyon) - was a great tertön or treasure finder of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism in the 14th century , from whom the Pema Kathang / Padma Kathang ( T. padma bka 'thang ; see also article Padmasambhava ) was discovered, the biography of Guru Rinpoche, also known as Sheldragma (shel brag ma) , and the Kathang Denga (bka' thang sde lnga) . He is one of the previous incarnations of Jigme Lingpa and the thirteen consecutive incarnations of Gyelse Lharje (rgyal sras lha rje) .

literature

• Dudom Rinpoche, Dorje, Jikdrel Yeshe: The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, its fundamentals and history. 2 vols. Translated and edited by Gyurme Dorje and Matthew Kapstein. Wisdom Publications, Boston 1991, ISBN 0-86171-087-8 .
• The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava. Dharma Publishing, Berkeley CA 1978, 2 volumes, ISBN 0-913546-20-8 . (This text (པདམ་ བཀའི་ ཐང) was "discovered" by O-rgyan-gling-pa and ascribed to Yeshe Tsogyal. Translated from Tibetan into French by Gustave-Charles Toussaint (Le dict de Padma); from French into English translated by Kenneth Douglas and Gwendolyn Bays.)
• Five Chronicles. BKA 'THANG SDE LNGA.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chinese Wujian Lingba 邬 坚 领 巴
2. ↑ Yeshe Tsogyal, Dilgo Khyentse, Erik Pema Kunsang: The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava . 2004. - According to other information, the year of birth is 1323, whereby the year of death is often given as approx. 1360.
3. ↑ cf. Gyalsé Lharjé (Wyl.rgyal sras lha rje) aka Gyalsé Lharjé Chokdrup Gyalpo (Wyl.rgyal sras lha rje mchog grub rgyal po)

Orgyen Lingpa (alternative names of the lemma)
Orgyen Lingpa, Orgyan Glinpa, o rgyan gling pa, Wujian Lingba 邬 坚 领 巴, madman of treasures (gter smyon); Wujian Linba 邬 坚 林巴