Migyur Dorje

Migyur Dorje (Tibetan: gNam-chos Mi-'gyur rdo-rje) (1645–1667) is the Terton who recognized Kunzang Sherab as the Lineage Holder of Nam Cho (Tib. gnam-chos) terma (Sky Teaching Treasure) in the Palyul Lineage. Born in the Ngom To Rola region of Tibet. He was a treasure reveler (terton) as Guru Padmasambhava prophesied and foreseen in Ratna Lingpa's, Dudul Dorje's and others terma. ^[1]

Guru Loden Chegse vision (one of Guru Rinpoche's eight emanations) helped him learn to read and write. At age 7, his Dakini visions helped focus on reliance upon the lama. At age 10, after a visions ans with a dharma protectors help, he met his root lama Karma Chagme (Karma chags-med), the illustrious Buddhist scholar of the Kagyud school. Karma Chagme recognized him as a Guru Rinpoche manifestation, Senge Dradog (one of the eight manifestations of Padmasambhava). Migyur Dorje revealed the Nam Cho treasures at age thirteen with Karma Chagme's help while the lived together for three years.

He showed signs of illness at age 23, which progressed to his mind stream dissolving in to the great sphere of empty truth with full eight Heruka vision and mandalas.

Notes

1. ^ Chagme, Karma; Lopon Sonal Tesewang and Judith Amtzis (30 April 2008). The All-Pervading Melodious Sound of Thunder: The Outer Liberation Story of Terton Migyur Dorje. Pharping, Nepal: Palri Translations Group. http://www.namsebangdzo.com/Pervading_Melodies_Sound_of_Thunder_p/15754.ht. 

References

• Ngagyur Rigzöd Editions, 1999, "Oasis of Liberation".

• Chagmé, Karma (2009). a Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on Union of Mahamudra and Atiyoga. Commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche. Translated by A. Wallace. Ithaca: Snow Lion. (Biographical intro section.) ISBN 1-55938-340-8

• Short biography of Migyur Dorje:

• • 1. A Garland of Immortal Wish-fulfilling Trees: The Palyul Tradition of Nyingmapa by Tsering Lama Jampal Zangpo (1988). Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications.
  • 2. Ein Tibetisches Wunschgebet um Wiedergeburt in der Sukhāvatī by Peter Schwieger (1978). St. Augustin: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag.
  • 3. ‘gNam čhos, Die Schriften des Mi ’gyur rdo rĵe (1646-1667)’ by Von. R.O. Meisezahl (1981). Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, Neue Folge, Wienbaden, Harrassowitz, 1:195-226.
  • 4. Recherches sur l’Épopée et le Barde du Tibet. by A. Stein (1959). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
  • 5. “Pure-Lands and other Visions in Seventeenth-Century Tibet: a Gnam-chos sādhana for the pure-land Sukhāvatī revealed in 1658 by Gnam-chos Mi-’gyur-rdo-rje (1645-1667)” by Georgios Halkias (2006).In Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century, ed. B. Cuevas et al. Leiden: Brill Publishers, pp. 121-151.