Khöndung Asanga Vajra Rinpoche

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English Phonetics	Khöndung Asanga Vajra Rinpoche
Sort Name	Khöndung Asanga Vajra Rinpoche

Dates

Birth:	1999
Place of birth:	Seattle, WA, USA

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Month
Gender
Element
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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	https://www.asangasakya.com/about/ https://sakyaheritage.org/about-us/asanga-rinpoche/

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༧འཁོན་གདུང་ཨ་སངྒ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནི་ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མའི་གདུང་བརྒྱུད་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ཕོ་བྲང་སྐྱབས་མགོན་གོང་མ་འཇིགས་བྲལ་བདག་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཡི་རིགས་རུས་སུ་འཁྲུངས་པ་དང་ཡུམ་ཕྱོགས་སྔར་འགྱུར་རྙིང་མའི་བླ་མ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཁམས་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཚ་བོ་སུ་འཁྲུངས་ཡོད་པར་ཡིན་ནོ།།

His Eminence Khöndung Asanga Vajra Rinpoche is the son of H.E.Khöndung Ani Vajra Sakya Rinpoche, the second son of the Phuntsok Phodrang family and Dagmo Chimey la. He is also the youngest grandson of the His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Dorjechang Rinpoche and therefore a direct descendant of the unbroken Khön lineage which dates back to 1073. His Eminence is also the grandson of H.E. Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche, a highly realized and accomplished Nyingmapa master on his mother’s side. (Source Accessed Feb 24, 2022)

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Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.

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.