H.E. Denma Tsemang Great Dedengba II Venerable Longzhi Tanpe Nyima

        Venerable Denma Tsemang was one of the twenty-five great Dedengbas under Guru Padmasambhava when Guru Padmasambhava went to Tibet to spread the dharma over one thousand years ago. He was dispatched by Sakyamuni Buddha to descend into our world during the same time period Guru Padmasambhava descended into our world in order to assist Guru Padmasambhava in propagating the Buddha-dharma. According to the short biographies of Guru Padmasambhava’s twenty-five greatest disciples, H.E. Denma Tsemang was skilled at transcribing texts and writing, had extraordinary wisdom, and was proficient in translating. He received many secret mantras and other dharma teachings from the great acarya, Guru Padmasambhava. He manifested wonderful realization and had very high supernatural powers, good fortune, and wisdom. He never forgot any dharma that he received, maintaining total retention of all that he learned. Most terma texts, such as the Collection of Eight Sadhana Teachings, were written by him. Additionally, H.E. Denma Tsemang, Bodhi Sattva, and others translated all of the sutras and treatises contained in the Tripitaka. In this lifetime, H.E. Longzhi Tanpe Nyima is one of the great disciples of the Holiest Tathagata. He is at the side of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III all year round, serving as an attendant of His Holiness. His forte in this lifetime is similar to that of his prior lifetime. He transcribes and organizes the recorded dharma discourses of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. When H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III performed for him a holy form of inner-tantric initiation called Drawing Lots From a Golden Vase and Casting a Lot, the lot landed on the mandala of Guhyapada Vajra, a great vajra being with awesome power. He then clearly demonstrated his power to telekinetically make a vajra pill move around, thereby showing the state of realization of a true reincarnated great Dedengba. However, H.E. Longzhi Tanpe Nyima simply said, “I am just a Buddhist disciple sincerely cultivating myself.”