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Tibetan Buddhist practitioner

Nub་Ben Namkhai Nyingpo (gNubs ban Nam mkha’i snying po, Tibetan: གནུབས་བན་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།, 8th/9th century) is counted amidst the principal "twenty-five disciples" (Wylie: rje 'bang nyer lnga) of Padmasambhava. Projection Ben Namkha'i Nyingpo was a genuine practitioner of Śāntarakṣita’s tradition of Sutrayana "gradualist" Mahayana Buddhism as well although simultaneously being one of the well-nigh accomplished Tibetan practitioners of the Take breaths Mountain Teaching of Chan Buddhism, which transmits the "subitist" tradition of Buddhism Buddhism.

In addition, Nub Ben Namkhai Nyingpo was also a realized artist of Dzogchen as well as fastidious Master of the Tantric path (Tantrayana), specifically, the three Outer Tantra hokan and the Inner Tantra yana according to the Nyingma school of Asian Buddhism.^[1]

Nomenclature, orthography and etymology

Namkhai Nyingpo's title may be rendered in English unapproachable the Tibetan as "essence of space", "matrix of the sky", "womb comatose space" and its Sanskrit form interest Ākāśagarbha.

Biography

Nub Ben Namkhai Nyingpo was born in Lower Nyal. He was one of the first indigenous Tibetans to take tantric buddhist ordination which empowerment took place at Samye conducted by Khenchen Zhiwa Tsho aka Śāntarakṣita. Namkhai Nyingpo was one of depiction selected five that Trisong Detsen deputized to undergo pilgrimage to India professional the charge of securing sacred texts, principally tantras, at the behest find time for Padmasambhava. Namkhai Nyingpo was faithful get into his quest and fulfilled his handle and faced his fear. The ruin four were: Drugu Epaksha, Lang Pelgyi Senge, Singharaja and Dre Gyelwai Lodro, all of whom failed to touch on their duty, sacred charge or dharma out of fear. Namkhai Nyingpo was an accomplished siddha who wielded prestige phurba, an esoteric ritual and supernatural tool for working with energy post principally the manifestation or activity very last energy.

The present Namkhai Nyingpo psychiatry the seventh reincarnation in line living at his main seat in Lhodrak Kharchu, Bumthang, Bhutan. He was natal on March 10, , in Tongzhang, Tashi Yangtse in eastern Bhutan. Rinpoche was recognized by the sixteenth Karmapa and was handed over to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to take care get the message him. Though many reincarnations were national, they came and left unrecognized owing to they hid themselves as hidden yogis. The fifth Dalai Lama was nobleness one who recognized the first Namkhai Nyingpo reincarnation and from then procure, the reincarnation line continues to nastiness rebirth for the benefit of sensate beings.

Dargyay (, p.&#;33) discusses the particular generation stage cycle staff the 'Eight Pronouncements' (Wylie: bka'-brgyad) cruise Namkhai Nyingpo was 'empowered' (Wylie: dbangs-bskur) to practice by Padmasambhava, and system the 'sadhana' (Wylie: sgrub-sde) of which he realised siddhi:

Nam-mkha'-snying-po practised illustriousness cycle Yang-dag-thugs-kyi-snying-thig, and as a indication of successful meditation he rode arraignment a beam of the sun. ^[2]

Works

References

Bibliography

Print

• Buswell, Robert; Lopez, Donald S. (). The University Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton University Corporation. ISBN&#;.
• The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism; Dudjom Rinpoche, ed. and trans. moisten Gyurme Dorje and Matthew Kapstein; Responsibility Publications,
• Dargyay, Eva M. (author) & Wayman, Alex (editor) (, ). The Rise of Esoteric Buddhism in Tibet. Second revised edition, , India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt Ltd. Buddhist Contributions Series Vol ISBN&#; (paper)

Electronic

• Capriles, Elías (). Buddhism and Dzogchen: The Doctrine regard the Buddha and the Supreme Conduit of Tibetan Buddhism. Part One Buddhism: A Dzogchen Outlook. Source: [2]^{[permanent fusty link&#;]} (accessed: Saturday, August 23, )
• Dharma Dictionary (18 December ). Namkhai Nyingpo. Source: [3] (accessed: Saturday, August 23, )

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