Mgon po tshe brtan

Mgon po tshe brtan on the DRL

Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

མགོན་པོ་ཚེ་བརྟན་

Wylie	mgon po tshe brtan
English Phonetics	Gönpo Tseten

Other names

• སྔགས་འཆང་མགོན་པོ་ཚེ་བརྟན་
• རིག་འཛིན་འཕྲིན་ལས་འོད་ཟེར་

• sngags 'chang mgon po tshe brtan
• rig 'dzin 'phrin las 'od zer

Dates

Birth:	1906
Death:	1991
Place of birth:	Amdo

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Month
Gender
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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Teachers

Dudjom Rinpoche · Khyentse, Dilgo

Biographical Information

Gönpo Tseten was born in 1906 in Amdo, an eastern province of Tibet, into a family heritage of ngakpas. At the age of seven he was sent to Sangchen Mingye Ling, a Nyingmapa monastery. At the age of 15, having shown great promise as a future teacher, he studied with Kargi Tertön and accomplished the preliminary practices of Tibetan Buddhism.

At Sangchen Mingye Ling, Gönpo Tseten continued his Dharma studies and the traditional Tibetan arts and sciences. It was at this time that he began to display great skill in drawing, painting, and sculpture. In 1925, at the age of 18, he completed two images of Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara, each standing over six feet high.

About the age of twenty he married and had a son, Pema Rigdzin. He then undertook a journey of twenty days in order to study for a year with the Tertön Choling Tuching Dorje, a disciple of Dodrupchen Rinpoche.

After this, he studied with the great Dzogchen master Khenchen Thubten Chöpel, who was also a guru of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Khenpo Jikmé Phuntsok, and the Sixth Dzogchen Rinpoche. During that time he received the complete transmission of the Rinchen Terdzö—he later received it twice more from Dilgo Khyentse around 1950 and 1978. Later, the ngakpa Gönpo Tsering taught him Tu, the art of overcoming enemies. This was essential since his gompa in Amdo needed protection from surrounding afflictions, including ruthless bandits and wild animals. After this, he studied sutra and tantra, including the Yönten Dzö, at Sukchen Tago Gompa in Golok, which was established by the First Dodrupchen Rinpoche in 1799. (Full bio available at Rigpa Wiki)

Links

BDRC Link (P2CZ8066)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P2CZ8066

Wiki Pages

• Mgon po tshe brtan on the DRL
• Mgon po tshe brtan on the LIB

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.

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.

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.

Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that when aroused negatively affect or taint the mind.

Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism.