| 01. Longchempa | 02. Nagarjuna |
| 03. Samantabhadra | 04. Pema Junge |
| 05. Vimalamitra | 06. Jigme Lingpa |
1. Lonchenpa
2. Nagarjuna c. 150 – c. 250 CE
Nagarjuna [Tibetan: pag pa lhu drub - ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ ] was an Indian monk and Mahayana Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka school. He is widely considered one of the most important Buddhist philosophers.
He was the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy and a defender of the Mahayana movement. His Mulamadhyamakakarika [Root Verses on Madhyamaka] is the most important text on the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness.
3. Samantabhadra Samantabhadra [Tib.: kun tu bzang po ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་ ] was a great bodhisattva in Buddhism associated with practice and meditation. Together with Shakyamuni Buddha and the bodhisattva Mañjushri, he forms the Shakyamuni Triad in Mahayana Buddhism.He was the patron of the Lotus Sutra and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva. In Chinese Buddhism, Samantabhadra is known as Puxián and is associated with action, whereas Mañjushri is associated with prajña [transcendent wisdom]. In Japan, this bodhisattva is known as Fugen, and is often venerated in Tendai and Shingon Buddhism.
4. Pema Jungne
Pema Jungne [Tibetan: pad ma 'byung-gnas པད་མ་འབྱུང་གནས། was a Manifestation of Padmasamhava] manifests before his arrival in Tibet, the Vajrayana Buddha that teaches the Dharma to the people, embodies all manifestations and actions of pacifying, increasing, magnetizing and subjugating.As the most depicted manifestation, he is shown sitting on a lotus, dressed in three robes, under which he wears a blue shirt, pants and Tibetan shoes. He holds a vajra in his right hand, and a skull-bowl with a small vase in his left hand. A special trident called a khatvanga leans on the left shoulder representing Yeshe Tsogyal, and he wears a Nepalese cloth hat in the shape of a lotus flower. Thus he is represented as he must have appeared in Tibet.
5. Vimalamitra 8th century
Vimalamitra [Tibetan: dri med bshes gnyen དྲི་མེད་བཤེས་གཉེན་], was an Indian Buddhist monk. His teachers were Buddhaguhya, Jñanasutra and Sri Simha. He was supposed to have vowed to take rebirth every hundred years, with the most notable figures being Rigzin Jigme Lingpa, Khenchen Ngagchung, Kyabje Drubwang Penor Rinpoche and Kyabje Yangthang Rinpoche.
He was one of the eight teachers of the great Indian adept Guru Padmasambhava. Centuries later, terma and various works were attributed to him.
6. Jigme Lingpa [1730–1798]
Jigme Lingpa [Tib. 'jigs med gling pa འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ་] was a Tibetan tertön of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the promulgator of the Longchen Nyingthig, the Heart Essence teachings of Longchempa, from whom, according to tradition, he received a vision in which the teachings were revealed. The Longchem Nyingthik eventually became the most famous and widely practiced cycle of Dzogchen teachings.He is regarded as the incarnation of the Dharma King Thrisong Detsen and the great Pandita Vimalamitra and other personalities.
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