TSULTRIM ZANGPO (1884-c.1957)*
Tsultrim Zangpo, also known as Tulku Tsurlo, one of the greatest Tibetan
scholars of recent times, was an important student of Tertön
Sogyal Lerab Lingpa, as well as the author of his secret biography
and a lineage-holder of his terma teachings. He was also a student
of the Third Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima and of Amye
Khenpo Damchö Özer of Dodrupchen Monastery. Khenpo Damchö
said of him on one occasion, “I am just a dog, but I have a
lion for a student.” Although it was notoriously difficult to
meet Dodrup Jikmé Tenpé Nyima in his later years, Tsurlo
was able to do so because of his work as a scribe. He copied many
texts for Dodrupchen Rinpoche’s personal library and used the
work as an opportunity to get access to Rinpoche and to receive clarifications.
Footnotes * The birth year of 1884 is given in Tulku Thondup’s Masters of Meditation and Miracles. According to the Khordong monastery website he died at the age of seventy-three. We know that he wrote the secret biography of Tertön Sogyal in 1942. # This translation of the commentary to the Gongpa Zangthal is not yet published. + The Garland of
Views by Padmasambhava was translated by James
Low and is available in his book Simple Being: Texts in the
Dzogchen Tradition (Wisdom Books, 1998). Also available in French
and German. Links Table of Contents for Tulku Tsullo's Collected Works on Lotsawa School With friendly permission partly taken from the Lotsawa School website: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/ |