Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok

His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok (Tibetan: འཇིགས་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས ་འབྱུང་གནས་, January 28, 1933 - January 7, 2004 ），，Also translated as Niumai Phuntsok，1933Born in Banma County, Goluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province，Nyingma Lama，1980Founded Larung Gar Buddhist College in Serthar County。 Jigme Phuntsok was born on January 28, 1933 (January 3rd of the Year of the Water Rooster in the Tibetan calendar) into a Tibetan nomadic family in Banma County, Qinghai Province. At the age of two, he was identified as the reincarnation of Lelo Lingpa (1852–1926). When he was 14 years old, he followed Khenpo Silang Renqing and others to listen and think about the Sutras and Tantric Sutras, and began to turn the Dharma Wheel. 22Received bhikkhu ordination at age，Strictly observe the precepts。 He also practiced the Supreme Vajrayana Dharma and achieved countless signs of attainment in the perfection stage. Jigme Phuntsok is the most influential lama of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Kham.，Sodarji Khenpo、Khenpo Chicheng Lodrup、Khenpo Yeshe Phuntsok came from his disciples。 In 1980, he founded Larung Gar Buddhist College in Serthar County and began the cause of promoting Dharma and benefiting living beings. Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche was also an extraordinary treasure master. He discovered many treasures in various Tibetan areas of China and parts of India. In the 1990s, he launched an anti-slaughter campaign, calling on Tibetan herders to stop selling yaks commercially to avoid mass slaughter of yaks. He passed away in Chengdu on January 7, 2004 (November 15, Water Sheep Year in the Tibetan Calendar).