gTértön Rang-rig Togden and Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér

A painting by David S. Herrerías for ‘Born in Full Flight — the illustrated history of the Aro gTér Lineage’.

Rang-rig Togden (gTer sTon rang rig rigs lDan / གྟེར་སྟོན་་རང་རིག་རྟོགས་ལྡན་) and Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér (jo mo pa dMa ‘od zer / ཇི་མོ་པདྨ་འོད་ཟེར་) were the parents of Khyungchen Aro Lingma (khyung Chen A ro gLing ma / ཁྱུང་ཆེན་ཨ་རོ་གཉལིང་མ་) the female gTértön, and an incarnation of Yeshé Tsogyel—who revealed the Aro gTér which she received directly from Yeshé Tsogyel.

The gTérma she revealed was that of the 84 Mahasiddhas — and she received it directly from Mönmo Tashi Khyi’dren, (mon mo bKra shis khyi ’dren / མོན་མོ་་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཁྱི་འདྲེན་) one of the major consorts of Guru Rinpoche. Mönmo Tashi Khyi’dren was the Khandro who transformed herself into a flying tigress — and it was on her Guru Rinpoche flew to Taktsang in Bhutan. Rang-rig Togden (rang rig rTogs lDan / རང་རིག་རྟོགས་ལཉདན་) was an incarnation of Thangtong Gyalpo (thang sTong rGyal po / ཐང་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་པོ་) and a gTértön. He received the Thangtong Thugthig gTérma of Ling Gésar from Thangtong Gyalpo.

This image of Rang-rig Togden and Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér was produced by David S. Herrerías for ‘Born in Full Flight’ — ‘The Illustrated History of the Aro gTér Lineage’.