Drubwang Adzin Rinpoche
The late Drubwang Adzin Rimpoche, was the elder brother of
H.E. Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche. Drubwang Adzin Rinpoche, also known as
Kyabje Ritrul Rigdzin Chogyal was the 4th Ripa Chogtrul. He was born in the
Water-Hen year, 1933, with a tangle of long hair on his head, as the son of
Ripa Dungdzin Jangchub Shenpen and Mayum Palden Tsomo. In connection with his
recognition by Dzongsar Kyentse Chokyi Lodro as the reincarnation of the 3rd
Ripa Tulku, Pema Dondrub Gyaltsen, he was given the name Ritrual Rigdzin
Chogyal. From Khewang Lama Tsethar, a student of Dzogchen Khenpo Shenga, he
studied the many common Buddist sciences as well as the practices of ritual
dance, iconometrics, and liturgical chanting belonging to Ripa tradition. From
Ripa Jigme Tsewang Chokdrub and the 6th Taksham, Karma Sangak Tendzin Dorje, he
received the entirety of the Ripa lineages ripening initiations, liberating
instructions, and pith advice. Moreover, from Nyagrong Tertön Jigme Chojung
Lingpa, Dudjom Jigtrel Yeshe Dorje, Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche, Shechen Kongtrul
Pema Drime, Drubwang Shakya Shri’s son Dungsey Pakchok Dorje, Apo Rinpoche
Ngawang Yeshe Rangdrol, and others, he received every type of ripening and
liberating teaching without regard to sectarian distinctions between New or Old
Translations Schools, such as the Precious Treasury of Terma (Rinchen Terdzo),
the Heart-essence of the Great Expanse (Longchen Nyingthig), the Nyingma
Transmitted Word Collection (Nyingma Kama), the Seven Treasuries (Dzod Dun),
the Collected Works of Drubwang Shakya Shri, along with all of the associated
explanatory instructions for each. Then for many years he resided in strict
practice retreat.
When the times were about to change, with his younger
brother Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, his immediate family circle, and several
attendants and monks from his communitiy, Rigdzin Chogyal Rinpoche eventually
made his way to the settlement of Orissa by way of Pemako. Then, with Namkha
Rinpoche, he performed an ongoing number of projects. Amoung other activities,
he mass printed the only manuscript in India of the Taksham Gathering of the
Intention of all Yidams (Yidam Gongdu), having borrowed it from Kyabje Chatral
Rinpoche; he oversaw construction of Rigon Thubtan Mindroling Monastery, and
instituted a community of ordained monks there. Thus he acted as a lifeline to
ensure that the continuity of the doctrine would not decline while in exile.
During annual fasting retreats, recitations sessions, great
accomplishments rites, and Lama Dance ceremonies Rigdzin Chogyal Rinpoche gave
advice on how to be virtuous in this and future lives and gave profound
instructions on the path to all the laity and clergy present. The power of his
compassion was immense in the rites and supportive teachings for the well-being
of the deceased and living, as well as for the infirmed. Out of his great love,
he especially cared for the underprivileged, the elderly, and the incurably
ill. For these and other reasons, the entire population of the settlement had
uncontrived devotion and respect for him. For Three years, beginning in 1973,
Rigdzin Chogyal Rinpoche accepted the responsibility of Nyingma representative
for the 5th Tibetan People’s Assembly. Not only did he share a warm and close
relationship with H.H. the Dalai Lama, but His Holiness also upheld Rigdzin
Chogyal Rinpoche as the epitome of Great Perfection Yoga and repeatedly tossed
flowers of praise upon him.
Rigdzin Chogyal Rinpoche’s students invited him to India,
Bhutan, Switzerland, and other countries, but aside from temporarily fulfilling
each of their expectations; he continuously dwelled in a state of one pointed
practice, as though he were spending his life in retreat. Without attachment,
hope, or fear for anything whatsoever, with few needs and in an open state of carefree
ease; he actualized in the intent of undifferentiated self-appearance, the
Great Perfection. He thus lived as an actual great renunciate.
Finally, on the 6th of June 1992, the 29th day of the Saka
month in the Tibetan Fire-Ox year, which was the day of Jamgon Mipham
Rinpoche’s death anniversary, Rigdzin Chogyal Rinpoche demonstrated the manner
in which enlightened intent comes to rest in the expanse of reality. He
remained in an upright meditation posture for three days. Then, when his family
and disciples, led by Drubwang Chagme Rinpoche and Namkha Rinpoche, were
cremating his precious remains, there was an infinite appearance of signs that
he was perfectly enlightened on the primordial level, such as rainbows dawning
in the direction of his reliquary, the appearance of relics of five-colors, and
so forth, which were verified as visual objects for all. We are now
supplicating from our hearts that a display of his miraculous emanation will
once again swiftly appear.
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