Rig 'dzin rgod kyi ldem 'phru can
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རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེམ་འཕྲུ་ཅན་
Rigdzin Gödem(1337 - 1408)
Rigdzin Godemchen was a Nyingma treasure revealer who discovered the Jangter, or Northern Treasures. He was posthumously known as the First Dorje Drak Rigdzin after the Third Dorje Drak Rigdzin claimed to have been the reincarnation of Lekden Dorje, who was himself identified as the reincarnation of Godemchen.
According to legend, when he was eleven years old three feathery growths appeared on the top of his head; by the time he was twenty-three there were five. Because these growths looked like the feathers of a vulture, he became famous as Godkyi Demtruchen (rgod kyi ldem 'phru can), ‘the one with vulture’s feathers’, which is generally shortened to Godemchen. Later in life he became known as Rigdzin Chenpo (rig 'dzin chen po; mahāvidyādhara) and this title has been held ever since by each of his successive incarnations.
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Terton Gyatsa Information
| Name in Gyatsa (Tibetan) | རིག་འཛིན་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ |
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| Name in Gyatsa (Wylie) | rig 'dzin dngos grub rgyal mtshan |
| Page numbers | Rinchen Terdzö, Volume I, Text #6, Pages 561 to 564, folio 111a6 to 112b6 |
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