Mingyur Paldron

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Jetsunma Mingyur Paldron, or Mingyur Peldrön (Tibetan: མི་འགྱྱུར་དཔལ་སྒྒྲྲོན་ mi 'gyur dpal sgron, 1699-1769) was a Tibetan Buddhist lama in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions.[1][2][3][4] She was the daughter of Chögyal Terdag Lingpa (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྒྱྱལ་གཏེར་བདག་གླླིང་པ་ chos rgyal gter bdag gling pa), the founder of Mindrolling Monastery.[5] She was a disciple of Gyurme Tekchok Tendzin.[6] She received the entire transmissions of Thug Je Chenpo De Sheg Kun Du from Lochen Dharmashri and mastered the Tsa-lung and Thigle practices at the age of fourteen.[2] In 1717, when the Mongols invaded Tibet, she escaped to Sikkim where she taught the dharma for two years and founded the Pema Yangtse monastery.[2] After the Mongol invasion, she returned to the Tibetan monastery Mindrolling, which had been destroyed, and rebuilt it with her younger brother.[2] She also gave empowerments, oral transmissions, and explanations of the collected works of and the to over 270 disciples, as well as establishing nunnery near Mindrolling .[2]

An extensive hagiography of 200 folios, written by her disciple Gyurmé Ösel ('gyur med 'od gsal, b. 1715), was completed thirteen years after her death.[7] Alison Melnick Dyer has published articles about Mingyur Paldron,[8][9] and is currently writing a book about her life and influence.

References[]

  1. ^ Źabs-dkar Tshogs-drug-raṅ-grol (2001). The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin. Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 9781559398749.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Female Masters : Jetsün Mingyur Paldron". Mindrolling International website. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  3. ^ Haas, Michaela (9 April 2013). Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan ... - Michaela Haas - Google Books. ISBN 9780834828377. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  4. ^ "Mingyur Peldron". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  5. ^ "Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California : Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche". Gomdeusa.org. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  6. ^ "The Second Dzogchen Drubwang, Gyurme Tekchok Tendzin - The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  7. ^ Melnick, Alison (2014). "The Life and Times of Mingyur Peldron: Female Leadership in 18th Century Tibetan Buddhism". UVA Library | Virgo. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  8. ^ Melnick, Alison. "Mingyur Peldron". Treasury of Lives. Archived from the original on January 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
  9. ^ Melnick Dyer, Alison (2018). "Female Authority and Privileged Lives: The Hagiography of Mingyur Peldrön". Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. 41: 209–234. doi:10.2143/JIABS.41.0.3285743.
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