The truth is, Dzongsar Khyentse's version of rimey only includes Sakya, Kagyu, Nyingma AND Bonpo.
Actually, everything except for Gelug is what rimeypas in general, not only Dzongsar Khyentse, call “rimey”. Rimey, in essence, is just an anti-Gelugpa political front.
Yes, Bonpo is being held in a higher regard as compared to the Gelug.
Right. Actually Bön is held by Nyingmapas in higher regard than Buddhism in general, so much so that Nyingmapas adopted as their central and all-pervading tenet the Bönpo (and Ch'an) ridiculous, non-Buddhist idea, that one needs to awaken to the “fact” the one is already awaken...
According to them, everybody is already “awaken”, only the stupid cannot see this, as the stupid cannot see the new clothes of the king. And, in order to “see” this wondrous bullshit, one needs an “introduction to the nature of mind” through a dzogchen “guru”, who will teach how to miraculously see the clothes of the king all the while raping their female disciples and taking the money of their male disciples in the process!
Besides, so-called rimeypas, specially those of Nyingma affiliation, hold their fictitious, terma-invented “Padmasambhava” as higher than the Buddha, more omniscient than the omniscient, although they lack the guts and the honesty to call themselves “Padmasambhavists” rather than “Buddhists”.
It is a well known fact that many Nyingma termas are just copies of Bön termas, and that Nyingma tertöns (terma discoverers) were Bön tertöns as well. Nyingma and Bön go hand in hand, except that the Bönpo are more honest and don't pretend to be Buddhist.
I don't know if you see this, this is a movement otherwise called "anti-gelug" movement.
This is what I see as well. The king has no clothes, and on top of it is an idiot.
It started in the 19th century
Actually the roots of the “rimey” anti-Gelug movement can already be seen in the 17th century, when the evil butcher, the 5th dalie lame, colluded with Nyingmas in order to ensure their support to his megalomaniac power-grab over the whole of Tibet, thereby polluting the pure Gelug teachings with obnoxious Nyingma tenets and practices, whence his spitefulness and hatred against Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen, who upheld the pure teachings of Je Tsongkhapa, and was therefore murdered by the aforementioned ganster, with the help of his Nyingmapa accomplices, thus creating the conditions for the arisal of the protector of Je Tsongkhapa's doctrine, Dorje Shugden.
obviously one of the many reasons were because they were unhappy with Gelugpa being the ruler, but more so of course, the corrupted and lazy people working for the Gaden Phodrang.
Nyingmapas were not at all unhappy with the rule of the Tibetan traitor and British puppet the 13th evil dalie and his lazy, corrupted Ganden Phodrang, as they together followed the same power-grabbing Nyingma-Gelug colluding schema already previously enforced by the evil 5th dalie, and later adopted by the current 14th evil dalie.
What Nyingmapas were unhappy about was the successful incursions by the great and glorious Pabongkha Rinpoche into their territories, attracting with his powerful Dharma discourses thousands of Tibetans thirsty for the pure Buddha's teachings, and fed up with Nyingma debased mystification and trickery.
What is more, Nyingmapas were very unhappy with the military actions of a Pabongkha Rinpoche's student, the powerful and patriotic Chinese warlord Liu Wenhui, who uprooted the opium traffic in Nyingma-controlled areas throughout Eastern Tibet, or Kham, thus depriving Nyingmapa drug dealers of their ill-gotten income.
Therefore, whenever one reads the story that “Pabongkha Rinpoche or his students destroyed Nyingma monasteries”, one can confidently translate it as “Pabongkha Rinpoche's student Liu Wenhui destroyed opium entrepôts controlled by Nyingmapa drug dealers”. And this they, the Nyingmapa drug dealers, cannot forgive.
And, since the opium traffic from India to China through Eastern Tibet was controlled by the Bombay-based China-hating Jewish-British clan of the Sassoon-Rothschild, it requires no effort to understand why down to our days the Nyingmapas and “rimeypas” are favored by Western-Jewish China-hating big financiers, as exemplified by the Soros-owned Shugden-hating Tsadra Foundation with its cohort of salaried Shugden-hating Nyingmapa e rimeypa “lamas”, such as Ringu “tulku”, Dzongsar Khyentse himself, and so forth (see fo instance
http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/2017-conference/2017-speakers/).