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A Chronological Timetable:
Lives of Do Khyentse’s Familial Line


NAME

DATE OF BIRTH

DATE OF DEATH

LIFE SPAN*

ANNOTATION

Thirteenth Cycle
Iron Monkey Year1800
Fourteenth Cycle
Fire Tiger Year
1866

66

-

Thirteenth Cycle Water Dog Year 1802

Fourteenth Cycle
Iron Bird Year
1861

59

Not of familial line

Khaying Drölma

Fourteenth Cycle
Water Sheep Year
1823
Fourteenth Cycle
Wood Tiger Year
1854
31

-

Fourteenth Cycle
Earth Ox Year
1829
Fourteenth Cycle
Water Tiger Year 
1842

13

-

Fourteenth Cycle
Iron Tiger Year
1830
Fifteenth Cycle
Fire Monkey Year
1896

66

-

Fourteenth Cycle
Wood Hare Year
1855

-

80+

-

Fourteenth Cycle
Fire Horse Year 
1846

-

40+

Not of familial line
Fifteenth Cycle
Iron Tiger Year
1890
Sixteenth Cycle
Earth Hare Year 
1939

49

-

Fifteenth Cycle
Wood Horse Year
1894
Sixteenth Cycle
Water Snake Year 
1953

59

-

Sixteenth Cycle Earth Dragon Year 1928

-

-

80 years old as of this year

COLOPHON
 

None


NOTES

 

* Dates have been shifted back one place to align with European calculation.


Photo credit: BDRC W1KG987

Published April 2021


BIBLIOGRAPHY
 

Thub bstan chos dar. 2008. Mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje'i gdung rgyud rim byon gyi 'khrungs rabs re'u mig. In Mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje'i gdung rgyud rim byon gyi rnam thar gsal ba'i me long, pp. 449–450. Pe cin: Krung go'i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang. BDRC W1KG987

Abstract

This concise table features birth and death dates for essential individuals connected with Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje's familial line.

A Chronological Timetable:
Lives of Do Khyentse’s Familial Line

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