CHRONOLOGY
1699 | Birth |
1710 | Commencement of studies with Terdak Lingpa |
1714 | Terdak Lingpa dies |
1714 | Commencement of studies with Lochen Dharmaśrī |
1716 | Retreat |
1717–18 | Civil war |
1717 | Flight to Sikkim |
1718 | First public teaching |
1719 | Return to Mindröling and monastery reconstruction |
1720 | Illness and recovery |
1720 | First meeting with Polhané and the Seventh Dalai Lama |
1723 | First meeting with Gyurmé Ösel |
1726 | First meeting with the Fifth Lelung, Jedrung Rinpoche |
1727 | Khangchenné assassinated, war in Gyantsé begins |
1728 | Cease-fire of the war in Gyantsé |
1730–35 | Seventh Dalai Lama exiled in Kham |
1732 | Teaching tour in central Tibet |
1736 | Second meetings with Polhané and the Fifth Lelung |
1737–38 | Mass teachings at various locations in central Tibet |
1739 | Retreat |
1740 | Mass teachings in central Tibet |
1742 | Gyurmé Ösel begins writing A Dispeller of Distress for the Faithful |
1743 | Mass teachings in central Tibet |
1744 | Beginning of three-year retreat |
1747 | Polhané dies |
1751–66 | Pilgrimage and teachings at Shauk Taggo |
1766–69 | Mass teachings at Mindröling |
1769 | Death |