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Khordong Jangter Monastery - Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche Gompa - Siliguri

Chimé Rigdzin Rinpoche, popularly known as C. R. Lama, was an Indian lama of Tibetan Buddhism who was the lineage holder of the Northern Treasures (byang gter) tradition in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. After finishing his education at the age of eighteen with the degree of dorje lobpon chenpo (rdo rje blo dpon chen po), on the advice of Tulku Tsullo he embarked on the life of a wandering yogi. During this period he visited the Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Tibet, Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, and India. For a while he worked in the administration of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in Lhasa, sorting out historical documents and organizing the library. In the mid-1940s Chime Rigdzin entered a traditional three-year-three-fortnight retreat at Rewalsar, known to Tibetans as Tso Pema (mtsho padma) in Himachal Pradesh. Around the year 1945, Gendun Chopel (dge 'dun chos phel, 1903–1951), the renowned Tibetan scholar, visited him there. There the two discussed the Dhammapada, which Gendun Chopel was then translating into Tibetan. Chime Rigdzin was fluent in Hindi and Nepali and knew both Sanskrit and Bengali. His main research activity at Santiniketan involved working with Indian scholars to reconstruct the Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Paishachi, Apabhramsa, and early Bengali Doha literature backwards from the Tibetan translations. He also translated into Tibetan a number of Rabindranath Tagore's writings that were based on Buddhist Jatakas and Avadanas such as Pujarini (Maiden Worshipper) and Shrestha Bhiksha (Best Gift of Begging). These can be said to have been the first Tibetan translations of Bengali works since Atiśa Dīpaṃkara (a ti sha dI paM ka ra, 982-1055?) visited Tibet in the eleventh century. He taught Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at the Calcutta University for years. For some time he served as the working president and the Special General Secretary of the International Indo-Tibetan Nyingmapa Buddhist Cultural Preservation Society, a position of considerable influence in the Nyingma exile community. At some point, he was awarded the honorary title of Bodhisattva by the Mahabodhi Society of India for his meritorious activities and for spreading the Buddhist dharma. Among his Western students were the Englishmen Martin Boord and James Low, both of whom met Chime Rigdzin in the 1970s and facilitated his later travels in Europe. He retired from Visva-Bharati University in 1987 and moved to Siliguri in West Bengal, where the hills meet the plain. He continued to visit Europe where he taught to groups of students in Germany, Poland, England, and France. In the mid-90s he and his son Tulku Urgyen Chemchok purchased a large piece of land in Siliguri, West Bengal, close to the Himalayan mountains, and built Khordong Jangter Monastery ('khor gdong byang gter dgon). Khordong Terchen Tulku Chime Rigdzin Rinpoche passed away on June 14, 2002, at the age of seventy-nine, in Shivmandir, West Bengal, India. On the day of his cremation rainbows are said to have appeared in the sky and relics were found in the ashes. I was blessed to be able to visit this amazing place and establish a connection with Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche's lineage through meeting his son Tulku Urgyen Chemchok. May all beings benefit from this connection!