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The Pema Lingpa Lineage
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The Three Pema Lingpa Incanations Ganteng Tulku Rinpoche, Sungtrul Tulku Rinpoche and Thuksey Tulku Rinpoche |
The lineage of Pema Lingpa, Bhutan’s greatest spiritual master dates back to the 9th century,
to the time when Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) first brought Vajrayana Buddhism from India to the lands of Tibet and Bhutan. Guru Rinpoche
blessed Bhutan with his presence and left many hidden treasure teachings (terma), making it one of the holiest Buddhist sites in the world.
Terton (spiritual treasure-revealer) Pema Lingpa is the primary regent and emanation of Guru Rinpoche in Bhutan. He is revered as a patron saint in Bhutan.
Pema Lingpa, who lived in the 15th Century, was the fourth of the five King Tertons predicted by Guru Rinpoche and was as well the immediate incarnation of the supreme master Longchenpa “the All-Knowing”. In addition, Pema Lingpa was the final pure incarnation of the Royal Princess Pemasel, whom Guru Rinpoche awakened from death centuries before to impart the esoteric instructions of the Innermost Spirituality of the Dakini treasure, which he empowered her to reveal in a future life.
The fully intact treasure teachings revealed by Pema Lingpa have until the present day formed the basis for most of the Buddhist practice in Bhutan.
Terton Pema Lingpa continues his blessings today through an unbroken series of Body, Speech and Mind incarnations. The Speech incarnation Sungtrul Tulku Rinpoche
and Mind incarnation Thuksey Tulku Rinpoche were historically born and lived in Tibet. The current Sungtrul Tulku Rinpoche was born in Bhutan and lives there today. The late Thuksey Tulku Rinpoche was born in Tibet but lived most of his life in Bhutan. The Body incarnation has always
been born in Bhutan in the station of the Gangteng Tulku. Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche, founder of worldwide dharma centres and Abbot of Gangteng Monastery, is the ninth Body
incarnation of Pema Lingpa.
The three incarnations often reincarnated as the teacher and pupil amongst themselves, thereby facilitating, to receive the ripening and liberation
teachings and all other lineage teachings in their entirety through unbroken lineage and also without losing any precious transmission of teachings
in the process.
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The following are reliable published sources about the Pema Lingpa lineage. |
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| • From Peling Chogar an excellent brief history: Pema Lingpa: The Life and Lineage of Bhutan's Greatest Spiritual Master
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| • The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa, translated by Sarah Harding. Snow Lion Publications |
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| • Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, translated and edited by Gyurme Dorje, Matthew Kapstein. Wisdom Publications |
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• Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage,
translated by Lama Chökyi Nyima (Richard Barron). Padma Publishing |
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| • The Treasure Revealer of Bhutan, Chris Butters and others, Edited by H.K. Kulöy. Bibliotheca Himalayica Vol. 8. EMR Publishing House |
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| • The Treasure of Lives, Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters: Pema Lingpa |
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