I am highly delighted to learn that H. E. the Fifth Dza Kilung Rinpoche is going to establish and maintain a website to house a digital library of the Longchen Nyingtik, the Innermost Essence Teachings of Dzogpa Chenpo. These profound bodies of Nyingtik teachings were revealed by many extraordinary masters such as Kunkhyen Longchen Rabjam (1308-1364) and then Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa (1730-1798). Nyingtik teachings that came through these two luminaries are popularly known as Longchen Nyingtik teachings.
The Nyingtik tradition is known, among other things, for its many practitioners who, at the time of death, dissolved their mortal bodies into rainbow-like light bodies (‘Ja’ Lus), and their minds into the enlightened nature of Buddhahood.
After Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa, Nyingtik teachings came to us through the successive chains of his principal disciples such as the First Dodrupchen Rinpoche and the First Dza Kilung Rinpoche. Celebrated chains of scholars in this lineage established many monasteries, while ascetic hermits filled sacred caves in the mountains of Tibet, an ascetic tradition that spread to neighboring countries like Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, and China.
The Fifth Dza Kilung Rinpoche has rebuilt Dza Kilung Monastery in Kham and visited many countries in Asia and the west to give Dharma and Nyingtik teachings to those whose minds are open. In 1998, he came to America and settled in Whidbey Island, Washington, as his Western home-base. May the teachings of the extraordinary tradition of Longchen Nyingtik benefit many beings, in accordance with his aspirations!
