Sengge Gyelpo (seng+ge rgyal po, 1277/1289-1314/1325) was the son of Pokyapa Sengge Rinchen (spos skya pa seng ge rin chen, 1242/1258-1297/1313), the fifth abbot of Ralung Monastery (rwa lung dgon).
Sengge Gyelpo took ordination under his father, who also taught him Vinaya, Madhyamaka, logic, Lojong (blo sbyong) and Lamrim (lam rim) in the Kadam tradition, Śāntideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra and Siksasamuccaya, Dzogchen, and new tantric traditions such as the Cakrasaṃvara Nyengyu (bde mchog snyan brgyud), Kālacakra and the Nāmasaṃgīti, as well as the Six Yogas of Nāropa (nA ro chos drug)
In 1313, at the age of twenty-five, Sengge Gyelpo went to Ralung, where he constructed the main temple. He remained there, serving as monastery’s seventh abbot, for thirteen years.
Sengge Gyelpo died at age thirty-eight, either in 1314 or 1325.
Images
Drukpa Kagyu Lineage of Bhutan
Nineteenth century painting of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of Bhutan.
Gampopa together with early Drukpa Kagyu masters
A magnificent eighteenth century painting depicting Gampopa with a number of early Drukpa Kagyu masters, including early abbots of Ralung Monastery and several of the "Nine Incomparable Lions."
Bibliography
Grags pa ’byung gnas. 1992. Gangs can mkhas grub rim byon ming mdzod. Lanzhou: Kan su’u mi rigs dpe skrun khang, pp 521-522.
Kun dga’ seng ge. 1975 (1771). Rje bcu gsum pa seng ge rgyal po’i rnam thar. In Rwa lung dkar brgyud gser ’phreng. Pelampur: SNGP, vol 2, pp. 303-361.
Sgrub sprul phrin las rgya mtsho. 2009. Gdams ngag bka’ rgya can lnga yi bla ma brgyud pa’i rnam thar dad gsum chu gter ’phel byed ngo mtshar lza ba’i me long. Swayambhu: Shree Gautam Buddha Vihara, pp. 153-154.
Roerich, George, trans. 1996. The Blue Annals. 2nd ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, p. 671.