!! རྗེ་འབངས་ཉེར་ལྔ།
THE TWENTY FIVE GREAT DISCIPLES OF GURU RINPOCHÉ.
This twenty-five are the great disciples of Guru Rinpoché.All of them had attained supreme accomplishment in single lifetime through the path taught by Guru Rinpoche..
1-King Trisong Detsen ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེའུ་བཙན། -
the thirty-eighth king of Tibet, second of the three great religious kings and one of the main disciples of Guru Rinpoche. It was due to his efforts that the great masters Shantarakshita and Guru Padmasambhava came from India and established Buddhism firmly in Tibet.
2-Namkhé Nyingpo ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche. He was ordained as a monk by Shantarakshita, learned Sanskrit and travelled to India to receive teachings from Humkara and other teachers. During the empowerment of Kagyé by Guru Rinpoche in the caves of Samye Chimpu, his flower fell on the mandala of Yangdak Heruka. As a result of his practice of this particular deity, he attained supreme accomplishment and was able to ride on the rays of the sun.
3-Nupchen Sangye Yeshe གནུབས་ཆེན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས།
He is said to have lived for 130 years. He brought the Anuyoga teachings to Tibet and translated many tantras. He also was a student of Vimalamitra and many other great masters.
Legend has that it was due to his miraculous powers that King Langdarma spared the lay tantrikas when persecuting Buddhist followers in Tibet.
4-Gyalwa Chokyang རྒྱལ་བ་མཆོག་དབྱངས།
one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche and ordained as a monk by Shantarakshita. During the empowerment of Kagyé given by Guru Rinpoche in the caves of Samye Chimpu, his flower fell on the mandala of Hayagriva. As a result of his practice he was able to transform himself into the deity, and he heard the neigh of the horse on the crown of his head.
5-Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ།
the principal consort of Guru Padmasambhava. She was Vajravarahi in human form and also an emanation of Tara and Buddha Lochana.She was born as a princess in the clan of Kharchen.
She became the consort of King Trisong Detsen before being offered to Guru Rinpoche as a mandala offering during an empowerment. She specialized in the practice of Vajrakilaya and experienced visions of the deity and gained accomplishment. In Nepal, she paid a ransom for Acharya Salé and took him as her spiritual consort. Through the power of her unfailing memory, she collected all the teachings given by Guru Rinpoche in Tibet and concealed them as terma. At the end of her life, it is said, she flew through the air and went directly to Zangdokpalri.
6-Palgyi Yeshé དཔལ་གྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས།
He was born at Yadrok in the Drokmi clan. He translated many tantras, notably the tantras of Mamo Bötong, through which through he gained supreme accomplishment.
7-Langchen Palgyi Seng ..རླངས་ཆེན་དཔལ་གྱི་སེང་གེ!
a lay tantrika who attained ordinary and supreme accomplishments through the practice of Jikten Chötö. He was also part of the 108 translators who were sent to India and Oddiyana.
8-Vairotsana བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན།
the greatest of all Tibetan lotsawas. Together with Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra, he was one of the three main masters to bring the Dzogchen teachings to Tibet.
9-Nyak Jñanakumara or Yeshé Shyönnu གཉག་ཛྙཱ་ན་ཀུ་མ་ར།
He was ordained as a monk by Shantarakshita.
10-Gyalmo Yudra Nyingpo གཡུ་སྒྲ་སྙིང་པོ།
He was a great translator and scholar who received teachings from Vairotsana, Vimalamitra, and Guru Rinpoche. He translated many works, including the last thirteen of the eighteen texts of Semde.
11-Nanam Dorje Dudjom སྣ་ནམ་རྡོ་རྗེ་བདུད་འཇོམས།
one of King Trisong Detsen's ministers, sent to Nepal to invite Padmasambhava to Tibet. He became one of Guru Rinpoche's main twenty-five disciples. When receiving empowerment from Guru Rinpoche, his flower fell on the mandala of Vajrakilaya. Through the practice he became an accomplished mantrika, who could fly with the speed of the wind and pass through solid rock. The name Dorje Dudjom means 'Indestructible Subduer of Mara.'
12-Yeshé Yang...ཡེ་ཤེས་དབྱངས།
a fully ordained monk who transcribed many of Guru Rinpoche's termas.
Tibetan translator predicted by Padmasambhava. The chief scribe for writing down the termas of Padmasambhava, he was an accomplished yogi, able to fly like a bird to the celestial realms. Also known as Atsara Yeshe Yang. Yeshe Yang means 'Melodious Wisdom.'
13-Sokpo Lhapal...སོག་པོ་ལྷ་དཔལ།
A blacksmith by trade, he received teachings from both Nyak Jnanakumara and Guru Rinpoche. As a sign of accomplishment in the practice of Vajrakilaya, he could seize savage beasts of prey with his bare hands. On three occasions, with his miraculous power, he pacified the enemies of his teacher, Nyak Jnanakumara. He was also one of the teachers of Nupchen Sangye Yeshe.
The second throne-holder of Palyul Monastery, Pema Lhundrub Gyatso was said to be one of Sokpo Lhapal's reincarnations.
14-Nanam Shyang Yeshé Dé སྣ་ནམ་ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ།
He translated the Madhyamakalankara with Surendrabodhi. In all, he assisted with the translation of more than 300 hundred texts that now appear in the Kangyur and Tengyur, including Prajnaparamita Sutras, tantras and dharanis, and treatises on Madhyamika, Chittamatra and logic.
This learned and accomplished monk once exhibited his miraculous powers, attained through mastery of Vajra Kilaya, by soaring through the sky like a bird. Yeshe mean 'original wakefulness.'
15-Kharchen Palgyi Wangchuk མཁར་ཆེན་དཔལ་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག.
Brother of Yeshe Tsogyal. He was a lay tantrika who attained realization through the practice of Vajrakilaya. Palgyi Wangchuk means 'Resplendent Lord.
16-Denma Tsémang ལྡན་མ་རྩེ་མང་།
He was a famous Sanskrit translator and Tibetan calligrapher who invented a new style of calligraphy and transcribed many termas to be later revealed. Though his practise, he gained the power of complete and perfect memory.
17-Kawa Paltsek སྐ་བ་དཔལ་བརྩེགས།
He was born in Kawa in Phenpo Valley. He was ordained by the great abbot Shantarakshita and became one of the greatest Tibetan translators. With panditas such as Jñanagarbha and Vidyakarasimha, he translated the prajnaparamita and other mahayana sutras and Haribhadra's major commentary on the Abhisamayalankara known as Sphutartha. He collaborated with Vidyakaraprabha in translating treatises on Madhyamika and logic; and with Jinamitra, he translated Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha and commentary. Together with Sarvajñadeva, he was the first to translate the Bodhicharyavatara into Tibetan. He also translated many tantras later collected in the Nyingma Gyübum.
Along with Chokro Lüi Gyaltsen, he was sent to India by king Trisong Detsen to invite Vimalamitra to Tibet. He later received the Vima Nyingtik teachings from Vimalamitra in Samyé.
18-Shüpu Palgyi Sengé ཤུད་ཕུ་དཔལ་གྱི་སེང་གེ..
One of the ministers of King Trisong Deutsen, sent among the first emissaries to invite Padmasambhava to Tibet. He learned translation from Padmasambhava and rendered numerous teachings of Mamo, Yamantaka and Kilaya into Tibetan. Having attained accomplishment through Kilaya and Mamo, he could split boulders and divide the flow of rivers with his dagger.
Palgyi Senge means 'Glorious Lion.'
19-Dré Gyalwé Lodrö འབྲེ་རྒྱལ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས།
Beginning as Gönpo, a trusted attendant of Trisong Deutsen, he became one of the first Tibetans to take ordination, taking the name Gyalwey Lodrö, Victorious Intelligence. He became erudite in translation and attained accomplishment after receiving transmission from Hungkara in India. It is said that he visited the land of Yama, the Lord of the Dead, and saved his mother from the hell realms. After receiving teachings from Padmasambhava, he performed the feat of transforming a zombie into gold, some of which was later revealed in terma treasures. He achieved the vidyadhara level of longevity and is reputed to have lived until the era of Rongzom Pandita Chökyi Sangpo to whom he gave teachings. Gyalwey Lodrö means 'Victorious wisdom.
20-Khye'u Chung Lotsawa ཁྱེའུ་ཆུང་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ།
He became a translator at a very young age, hence his name, which means "boy translator." His later incarnations included Dudjom Lingpa and Dudjom Rinpoche.
21-Otren Palgyi Wangchuk འོ་བྲན་དཔལ་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག...
A great scholar and tantrika, he attained siddhi through practicing Guru Drakpo, the wrathful aspect of Padmasambhava. Palgyi Wangchuk means 'Resplendent Lord.'
22-Ma Rinchen Chok རྨ་རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག...
one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche and the seven men to be tested. He became one of Vimalamitra's closest disciples and assisted him in the translation of the Guhyagarbha Tantra. With Vimalamitra, he also translated Vimalamitra's own commentary on the Guhyagarbha, and the Cittabindu Upadesha, a text by the three great siddhas Buddhaguhya, Lilavajra and Vimalamitra.
23-Lhalung Palgyi Dorje ལྷ་ལུང་དཔལ་གྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ།
He is responsible for killing the evil King Langdarma, thus liberating him, and putting an end to the persecution of Buddhism in Tibet. He attained rainbow body at the end of his life.
24-Langdro Könchok Jungné..ལང་གྲོ་དཀོན་མཆོག་འབྱུང་གནས།
He came from the area of Langdro in Tsang and was a minister at the court of King Trisong Detsen. Among his main reincarnations are the great tertöns Ratna Lingpa as well as Dzogchen Pema Rigdzin and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo who is said to be is activity emanation.
25-Lasum Gyalwa Changchup ལ་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ།
One of the first seven Tibetans to receive full ordination as a monk by Shantarakshita, he was exceedingly intelligent, visited India several times and translated many sacred scriptures. A close disciple of Padmasambhava, he attained siddhi and could fly through the sky. Rigdzin Kunzang Sherab, the founder of the great Palyül Monastery in Kham, is considered one of his reincarnations. Gyalwa Jangchub means 'Victorious enlightenment.'
MAY WE ALL HAD IN FUTURE ATTEND SUPREME ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIKE THOSE OF GREAT MASTERS..
~GBoW Admins
