 The other happened in his 29th year, his meeting with the great mystic Rigdzin Kumaradza (alt.Kumaraja), from whom he received the Dzogchen empowerment and teachings in the uplands of Yartökyam at Samye, where he was traveling from valley to valley with his students in difficult conditions.Dudjom Rinpoche (1904–1987) "et al."