Jigme Phuntsok
Jigme Phuntsok, 1933-2004, was a renowned dharma teacher who spent much of his life traveling throughout Tibet establishing a series of retreats, the most well known of which was Larung Gar in a remote region of eastern Tibet known as Sertar. Jigme Phuntsok was one of the most influential lama of the Nyingma tradition in contemporary Tibet. He played an important role in revitalizing the teaching of Buddhism following the liberalization of religious practice in 1980. Jigme Phuntsok was also an extraordinary Terton (treasure revealer), uncovering many treasures texts in Tibet, China, and India.
At the Time of the Twenty-Fifth Rigden
Now, as for your root teacher, Trungpa Rinpoche and his connection with Shambhala ...
Jigme Phuntsok on Trungpa Rinpoche, Shambhala and the 25th Rigden
All of you who are disciples of one who in the beginning was Guru Dorje Trollo and who now is Gesar of Ling, and who in the future will be the Twenty-Fifth Rigden of Shambhala ...
Complete Openness
Rigdzin Shikpo talks about his training with Trungpa Rinpoche in the 1960s, beginning while Rinpoche was studying at Oxford.
