Sera Khandro

Sera Khandro on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors • Tertons

སེ་ར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་

Wylie	se ra mkha' 'gro
English Phonetics	Sera Khandro

Other names

• ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་སྐྱོང་དབང་མོ་
• སེ་ར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་སྐྱོང་དབང་མོ་

• kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo
• se ra mkha' 'gro kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo

Alternate names

• Sera Khandro
• Kunsang Dekyong Wangmo

Dates

Birth:	1892
Death:	1940

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Familial Relations

Consort of bdud 'joms gter sras dri med 'od zer

Is emanation of

Yeshe Tsogyal

Teachers

bdud 'joms gter sras dri med 'od zer

Students

Chatral Rinpoche

Other Biographical info:

1892–1940

Links

BDRC Link (P742)

http://tbrc.org/#!rid=P742

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Sera-Khandro-Kunzang-Dekyong-Wangmo/10083

Wiki Pages

• Sera Khandro on the DRL
• Sera Khandro on the BNW

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The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.