Dorje Chang Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche

The Gaze of the Lama

Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – the epitome of power

Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche was always well known to Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen’s elder disciples for his humour and for his unequivocal directness. Ngak’chang Rinpoche relates:

When Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche caught a person’s eyes, a few seconds would seem like a few minutes. Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche had an astonishing variety of gazes – sometimes they communicated, sometimes they interrogated, sometimes they challenged, sometimes they just looked from infinity with infinite tenderness – but whatever the gaze there was always transmission.