Lochen Gyurmé Dechen

ལོ་ཆེན་འགྱུར་མེད་བདེ་ཆེན།

lo chen 'gyur med bde chen

Lochen Gyurmé Dechen is one of the biographers of Drubchen Thangtong Gyalpo. He was a descendant of the Mahasiddha in the maternal lineage. Gyurmé Dechen is known to be a master in the Thanglug tradition of the Shangpa Kagyü lineage as well as a Sakya master. He also received the transmission of the Jonang teachings. He studied closely with Jetsün Künga Drölchok and Lochen Ratnabhadra (lo chen ratna bha dra, 1489-1563). From these two masters, and others, he received the complete Shangpa Kagyü transmissions as well as the Sakya Lamdré, Hevajra and Kalachakra systems, along with the transmission of the Six-fold Vajra-yogas of Kalachakra. Later he passed on the Shangpa transmissions mainly to his student Khenchen Ngawang Chödrak, whereas the Kalachakra instructions were received by the second Yölmo Tulku Tendzin Norbu.

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Adapted from: lo chen ‘gyur med bde chen gyi rnam thar mdor bsdus, shangs chos, vol. 1, p. 669-671 (translation from Tibetan by Lama Shérab Drimé).

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