Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche was born in 1933 in eastern Tibet. He is the reincarnation of the terton Lerab Lingpa (SoGyal). Rinpoche was also a terton in this present lifetime. At the age of fourteen, Rinpoche took vows from Sonam Rinpoche and at the age of twenty-two he became a fully ordained monk. Under Thupga Yeshe Norbu, Rinpoche received Dzogchen and other Nyingma transmissions. He also studied under Konchok Chopel, a master of the Nyingma and the other Tibetan lineages. For six years, Rinpoche practised in strict retreat. He saw visions of Sakya Pandita and Manjushri.
He ordained thousands of monk and nuns in Tibet and made pilgrimage to the sacred mountain, Wutai Shan, said to be the abode of Manjushri. He taught numerous Chinese and Mongolian people.
In 1993, he was able to visit His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in India and bestow transmissions to the Dalai Lama. Rinpoche passed away at the age of 72 years on the evening of January 6, 2004, in a military hospital in Chengdu, China.
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