འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཚེ་དབང་རྡོ་རྗེ་ནི་རྫོགས་ཆེན་དཔོན་སློབ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་དྲུག་པ་ཡིན་ལ། འདན་དུ་སྐུ་འཁྲུངས་ཤིང་སྐུ་གཅེན་ཀརྨ་པ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་དྲུག་པ་རང་བྱུང་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་ལྷན་དུ་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སུ་བྲོས་བྱོལ་དུ་ཕེབས།
The Fifth Dzogchen Drubwang, Tubten Chokyi Dorje (rdzogs chen grub dbang 05 thub bstan chos kyi rdo rje, 1872-1935) identified him as the reincarnation of the Fifth Dzogchen Ponlob, Konchok Tenpai Nyima (rdzogs chen dpon slob 05 dkon mchog bstan pa'i nyi ma, c.1898-c.1924). The Fifth Dzogchen Drubwang brought him to Dzogchen Monastery, Orgyen Samten Choling, in Rudam, and gave him the name Tubten Jikdrel Tsewang Dorje (thub bstan ’jigs bral tshe dbang rdo rje).
He started his education under the tutorship of Khenchen Tubten Nyendrak (mkhan chen thub bstan snyan grags, 1883-1959) who taught him reading, memorization of texts, writing, grammar and poetry. Khenchen Pema Tekchok Loden (mkhan chen pad+ma theg mchog blo ldan, 1879-1955) served as his main tutor for traditional studies of the monastic curriculum. This included the Sangwa Nyingtik (gsang ba snying thig), which he studied in detail with comprehensive commentary, empowerments, esoteric instructions, and oral transmission.
Following the Chinese assumption of control of Tibet in 1959, Jikdrel Tsewang Dorje fled Tibet into exile in Sikkim with his brother the Sixteenth Karmapa. Just two years later, in 1962, he passed away at the Karmapa's monastery of Rumtek (rum theg) in Gangtok, Sikkim.
The Sixteenth Karmapa identified his reincarnation in Karma Sungrab Ngedon Tenpa Gyeltsen (karma gsung rab nyes don bstan pa rgyal mtshan) who was born in Rumtek in 1965.
དཔྱད་གཞིའི་ཡིག་ཆ་ཁག།
Bstan 'dzin lung rtogs nyi ma. 2004.Snga 'gyur rdzogs chen chos 'byung chen mo.Beijing: Krong go'i bod rigs dpe skrun khang, pp. 381, 458, 462.