A comprehensive study of the Lelung Jedrung lineage written by the current reincarnation of Lelung Jedrung. Using varied Tibetan resources and biographies, Rinpoche begins with the source of the reincarnations, Olkha Jedrung, who was the first manifestation of the Buddhist deity Vajrapani. From the origin, he moves through time until the 1990s, tracing the life of each Lelung reincarnation.

A Drop From the Marvelous Ocean of History: The Lineage of Lelung Pema Zhepai Dorje, One of the Three Principal Reincarnations of Tibet, Tenzin Phuntsok Loden, Tenzin Dorjee (Translator), Tibet House, Paperback, 254 pp, $18.95

Tenzin Phuntsok Loden, the Eleventh Lelung Jedrung Rinpoche, was born in 1970, and recognized by the Great Fourteenth Dalai Lama in 1984. He was educated in Drepung Monastic University for another thirteen years. After graduating, he offered back his monastic vows, considering that, due to the nature of the times, he could be more of help to His Holiness and to Tibet by working in the lay world. He has done years of research in the effort to revive the Lelung Jedrung lineage, finding and publishing in Tibetan many of the rare works of his predecessors.

Foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama	vii
Author's Preface and Acknowledgements	viii
Editor's Introduction	xi
Translation
I. Salutation and Inspiration	3
II. A Liberating Story of Vajrapani, Source of the Lelung Reincarnations, with the Names of some of his Manifestations	5
III. The Three Kadampa Brothers	9
IV. Lhodrak Namkha Gyaltsen, the First Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	21
V. Ngagrampa Gendun Tashi, the second Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	31
VI. Tenpa Gyatso, the Third Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	43
VII. Gendun Ghoegyal Wangchuk, the Fourth Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	49
VIII. Losang Trinley, the Fifth Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	61
IX. Losang Lhundrup Trinley Gyaltsen, the Sixth Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	73
X. Losang Ngawang Tenzin Gyatso, the Seventh Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	77
XI. Kalsang Tenzin, the Eighth Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	81
XII. Tenzin Choekyi Wangchuk, the Ninth Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	85
XIII. Thubten Lungtok Choekyi Wangchuk, the Tenth Lelung Jedrung Reincarnation	89
Dedication	91
Appendixes
Appendix I. Lelung Pema Zhepai Dorje's Advice Concerning Old and New Translation Tantras	95
Appendix II. Bibliography of the Collected Works of Lelung Pema Zhepai Dorje	110
Appendix III. Lamp of Universal Illumination: A Catalogue of Scriptures on Khandro Sangwa Yeshe	168
Appendix IV. A Catalogue of Lelung Pema Zhepai Dorje's Commentaries on the Root Tantra of Bhagavan Shri Chakrasmvara	193
Appendix V. A Catalogue of Damchan Be'u Bum from the Collected Works of Lelung Pema Zhepai Dorje	198
Appendix VI. A Bibliography of the Handwritten Works of Lelung Pema Zhepai Dorje	218
Appendix VII. Anniversaries of the Lelung Jedrung Reincarnations	252
Appendix VIII. Map of the Lelung Region	253
Dedication Verses	254
Wishing Prayer	254