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'''[[Rigdzin Gödem Ngödrup Gyaltsen]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[rig 'dzin rgod ldem dngos grub rgyal mtshan]]'') (1337-1408) — a major [[tertön]] who discovered the [[Northern Treasures]] (Tib. [[བྱང་གཏེར་]], ''[[Chang Ter]]''; Wyl. ''[[byang gter]]''). He became known as [[Rigdzin Gödem]] because, at the age of twelve, three vulture feathers spontaneously grew from the crown of his head. When he was twenty-four, five more grew. [[Rigdzin Gödem]] literally translates as "[[Vidyadhara]] Vulture Feathers".
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[[Image:Rigdzin Godem.jpg|frame|Rigdzin Gödem, revealer of the [[Northern Treasures]])]
  
He was an emanation of [[Nanam Dorje Dudjom]] and a previous [[incarnation]] of [[Tertön Sogyal]].
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'''[[Rigdzin Gödem Ngödrup Gyaltsen]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rig 'dzin rgod ldem dngos grub rgyal mtshan]]'') (1337-1408) — a major [[tertön]] who discovered the [[Northern Treasures]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བྱང་གཏེར་]]}}, ''[[Chang Ter]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[byang gter]]''). He became known as [[Rigdzin Gödem]] because, at the age of twelve, three [[vulture feathers]] spontaneously grew from the {{Wiki|crown}} of his head. When he was twenty-four, five more grew. [[Rigdzin Gödem]] literally translates as "[[Vidyadhara]] [[Vulture]] Feathers".
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He was an [[emanation]] of [[Nanam Dorje Dudjom]] and a previous [[incarnation]] of [[Tertön Sogyal]].
  
 
==Further Reading==
 
==Further Reading==
*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History'', trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), pages 780-783.
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*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''[[The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History]]'', trans. and ed. [[Gyurme Dorje]] (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), pages 780-783.
*Dr. Rigzin Ngodrup, {{BigTibetan|རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེམ་འཕྲུ་ཅན་གྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་མདོར་བསྡུས་}}, ''rig 'dzin rgod kyi ldem 'phru can gyi mdzad rnam mdor bsdus'', Gangtok: Bulletin of Tibetology, No. 2, 1999
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*Dr. [[Rigzin]] [[Ngodrup]], {{BigTibetan|རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེམ་འཕྲུ་ཅན་གྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་མདོར་བསྡུས་}}, ''[[rig 'dzin rgod kyi ldem 'phru can]] gyi mdzad [[rnam]] mdor bsdus'', [[Gangtok]]: [[Bulletin of Tibetology]], No. 2, 1999
*Jurgen Wilhelm Herweg, ''The Hagiography of Rig <nowiki>'</nowiki>dzin Rgod kyi ldem <nowiki>'</nowiki>phru can and Three Historical Questions Emerging from It'' (M.A. thesis), {{Wiki|University of Washington}}, 1994
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*Jurgen Wilhelm Herweg, ''The {{Wiki|Hagiography}} of Rig <nowiki>'</nowiki>[[dzin]] Rgod kyi ldem <nowiki>'</nowiki>phru can and Three Historical Questions [[Emerging]] from It'' (M.A. {{Wiki|thesis}}), {{Wiki|University of Washington}}, 1994
  
 
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Rigdzin Gödem Ngödrup Gyaltsen (Tib. རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wyl. rig 'dzin rgod ldem dngos grub rgyal mtshan) (1337-1408) — a major tertön who discovered the Northern Treasures (Tib. བྱང་གཏེར་, Chang Ter; Wyl. byang gter). He became known as Rigdzin Gödem because, at the age of twelve, three vulture feathers spontaneously grew from the crown of his head. When he was twenty-four, five more grew. Rigdzin Gödem literally translates as "Vidyadhara Vulture Feathers".

He was an emanation of Nanam Dorje Dudjom and a previous incarnation of Tertön Sogyal.

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