Mipham Rinpoche
Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912) was one of the greatest masters of Nyingma. His root teacher, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820-1892) entrusted him with the preservation of the Great Perfection teaching. Mipham Rinpoche was in indefatigable scholar, debater and meditator. He mastered the major scholastic traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and composed commentaries and treatises based upon them, and during numerous meditative retreats, he cultivated a profound experience of the Vajrayana practices taught in
H.H. Jigme Phuntsok
Jigme Phuntsok ( 19332004) was the most influential contemporary master of Nyingma tradition. At the age of five, Jigme Phuntsok was recognized as the reincarnation of Terton Sogyal, guru to the 13th Dalai Lama. He founded Larung Five Sciences Buddhist College at a desolated valley in Sertar, which later on became the largest Buddhist Institute in the world.
