Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (2nd Dudjom Rinpoche)

Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (Tibetan: བདུད་འཇོམས་འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, Wylie: bdud 'joms 'jigs bral ye shes rdo rje, THL Düjom Jikdrel Yéshé Dorjé) (1904-17 January 1987), was the second Dudjom Rinpoche. He was recognized as a direct rebirth of Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1904) and was also later appointed the first supreme head of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by the 14th Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration.

Dudjom Rinpoche was born in southern Tibet in a region called Pemakö, which is known in Tibetan as a beyul (Wylie: sbas yul) or "hidden land".

The second Dudjom Rinpoche was known as Jigdral Yeshe Dorje; Jigdral ('jigs bral), meaning fearless, was the name given to him by the fifteenth Karmapa, Gyalwa Khakyab Dorje. He was named Jñāna (EWTS: dzny+Ana) as a child, the Sanskrit term of which "Yeshe" (ye shes) is the usual Tibetan translation. His father was Kathok Tulku Norbu Tenzing, who was a famous tulku in the Pema Kö region who had been trained in the Kathog Monastery. His mother was Namgyal Drolma, descended from Ratna Lingpa. Dudjom Rinpoche was also a descendant of Nyatri Zangpo, and of Puwoo Kanam Dhepa, the king of Powo.

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