Chögyal Rigdzin Gökyi Demtruchen (Tib. རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ། Wyl. rig 'dzin rgod kyi ldem 'phru can, born Ngodrub Gyaltsen, དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན། dngos grub rgyal mtshan), commonly abbreviated as Godem from the initial syllables of his given names, was an important tertön ("treasure revealer") of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, most well known for the Jangter ("Northern Treasures") lineage. The honorific title Chögyal means "King of Dharma." He is also retrospectively known as the 1st Dorje Drak Rigdzin (རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་རིག་འཛིན། rdo rje brag rig 'dzin) after Ngakgi Wangpo (རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་རིག་འཛིན། ངག་གི་དབང་པོ། ngag gi dbang po, 1580-1639), the main Jangter lineage holder of his generation and founder of Dorje Drak Monastery, which eventuallyChögyal Rigdzin Gökyi Demtruchen (Tib. རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ། Wyl. rig 'dzin rgod kyi ldem 'phru can, born Ngodrub Gyaltsen, དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན། dngos grub rgyal mtshan), commonly abbreviated as Godem from the initial syllables of his given names, was an important tertön ("treasure revealer") of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, most well known for the Jangter ("Northern Treasures") lineage. The honorific title Chögyal means "King of Dharma." He is also retrospectively known as the 1st Dorje Drak Rigdzin (རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་རིག་འཛིན། rdo rje brag rig 'dzin) after Ngakgi Wangpo (རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་རིག་འཛིན། ངག་གི་དབང་པོ། ngag gi dbang po, 1580-1639), the main Jangter lineage holder of his generation and founder of Dorje Drak Monastery, which eventually rose to prominence as one of the six major Nyingma monasteries in Tibet, responsible for preserving the Jangter tradition....more
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