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Khandro Pumo Trinely Chodren

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This is one of my favorite photos in "Fearless in Tibet: The Life of the Mystic Tertön Sogyal", which is of Tertön Sogyal's wife, Khandro Pumo Trinley Chodren, a humble and highly realized Dzogchen yogini.

The photo was taken on her stupa which is in Nyarong, eastern Tibet. Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo bestowed the name "Trinely Chodren" which was part of the name of one of his root gurus, Jetsun Trinley Chodren. Mindroling monastery writes, "Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo received the Nyingthig teachings of Dzogchen— the ripening empowerments, liberating instructions, entrusted advices and so forth—from Jetsün Trinley Chödrön. Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye received these transmissions of the direct lineages of the two lines of Nyingthig teachings and transmissions from Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. They were able to impart the transmissions they had received from Mindrolling to a succession of students, thus ensuring that these teachings spread not only throughout Tibet but also in all ten directions. In this way, the authentic and pure line of transmission of the precious dzogchen teachings which was almost in danger of being interrupted was once again firmly established through the efforts and kindness of Jetsün Trinley Chödrön."

Khandro Pumo appears regularly throughout the book and traveled widely with the tertön.
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