Jigme Lingpa

Rigzin Jigme Lingpa (Tibetan: rig 'dzin ' jigs med gling pa, * 1729 (or 1730), † 1798) was an important Dzogchen master and Tertön the Buddhist Nyingma tradition of Vajrayana. He was born near the Nyingma monastery Beri Gompa in circles Chonggye, Lhokha, Tibet.

Jigme Lingpa is an incarnation of the Dharma King (Ch FaWang ) Thrisong Detsen ( khri srong de'u btsan ) and the great Pandita Vimalamitra ( dri med bshes gnyen ) and other personalities considered.

From Longchenpa (1308-1363) inspired visions, he summed up the different branches of the Nyingma Dzogchen transmission to a uniform system of teaching together since then as the Longchen Nyingthik ( klong chen snying thig " Longchenpa Heart Essence Teachings "; engl Heart Essence. Vast Expanse the ) is the most important of the nowadays practiced Nyingma Dzogchen systems.