Chonam, Lama

Chonam, Lama on the DRL

Tibetan Buddhist Teachers • Translators

Lama Chonam

English Phonetics	Lama Chönam, Chöying Namgyal
Sort Name	Chonam, Lama

Dates

Birth:	1964

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Light of Berotsana Translation Group

Biographical Information

Lama Chönam, Chöying Namgyal, was born in the Golog area of eastern Tibet in 1964. His root teacher, Khenpo Münsel, was a direct disciple of Khenpo Ngagchung and was himself one of the great authentic Dzogchen masters of the twentieth century. Lama Chönam escaped Tibet in 1992 and later came to the United States, where he resides today. Over the past sixteen years Lama Chönam has been teaching Tibetan language and the Buddhadharma. He is one of the founders of the Light of Berotsana Translation Group. (Source: Wisdom Publications)

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Names

Tibetan: ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ
Wylie:

• chos dbyings rnam rgyal
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Choying Namgyal
  
• Lama Chonam
  
• Chöying Namgyal
  
• Lama Chönam
  

Dates

Born: 1964
Died:

Main Teachers

Khenpo Münsel

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The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.