Jamyang Chokyi Lodro (c. 1893 - 1959) was a Tibetan lama, a master of many lineages, and a teacher of many of the major figures in 20th century Tibetan Buddhism. Though he died in 1959 in Sikkim, and is not so well known in the West, he was a major proponent of the Rimé (non-denominational) movement within Tibetan Buddhism, and had a profound influence on many of the Tibetan lamas teaching today.
In the 1940s he studied with the leading Vajrayana masters from all over Tibet, and continued receiving transmissions from the Gelug, Nyingma, Sakya and Kagyu schools. He developed a reputation during that era as being a Rimé master par excellence, and many of the new generation of lamas who would bring Tibetan Buddhism to the West began to see him as their master. Thus he became a teacher and guide for Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche and Sogyal Rinpoche. He was a major influence on a very young Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, who first met him in 1945, and he is also mentioned with awe by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in his biography.
According to Sogyal Rinpoche, Jamyang Chokyi Lodro died in the “sleeping lion’s posture” (the same posture the Buddha had when he passed away) and remained in a subtle meditative state for three days
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