Dudjom Rinpoche
His Holiness Kyabjé Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, best known as Dudjom Rinpoche (Tib: བདུད་འཇོམས་ Wylie: bdud-'joms) is held to be the reincarnation of Terton Dudjom Lingpa, Garwang Dudjom Pawo. He was a "householder" lama, rather than a monk, and was married twice, producing nine children, the eldest of whom is H.H. Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. Widely respected throughout the Tibetan religious community, when the Tibetan Government in Exile requested the leaders of the various Nyingma lineages to choose a "Supreme Head"—as the other three schools of Tibetan Buddhism had long done—for representational purposes in the diaspora, Dudjom Rinpoche was unanimously nominated to the position, which he held until his death. He was succeeded in that office by H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
