# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rinpoche-lama-jigme
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:42:44.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rinpoche-lama-jigme"
name: "Rinpoche Lama Jigmé"
slug: "rinpoche-lama-jigme"
description: "Lama Jigme Rinpoche is an author and teacher in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born into the family of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, he is the brother of the late 14th Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chokyi Lodro. The 16th Karmapa appointed Lama Jigme Rinpoche as his European representative. He asked him to oversee the development of a shedra (university), library, retreat center, and monastery at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling in Dordogne, France, where Jigme Rinpoche is currently the main representative of Trinley Thaye Dorje and head of the monastery."
tagline: "Tibetan lama"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jigme_rinpoche.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             25
  historical:           4.620844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jigmela.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BC%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5"
    title: "Джигме Ринпоче"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEigme_rinpo%C4%8Dhe"
    title: "Džigme rinpočhe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama_Jigme_Rinpoche_(Kagyu)"
    title: "Lama Jigme Rinpoche (Kagyu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigm%C3%A9_Rinpoch%C3%A9"
    title: "Jigmé Rinpoché"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzigme_Rinpocze"
    title: "Dzigme Rinpocze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9248883"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump