Gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba

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Classical Tibetan Authors

གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་

Wylie	gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba
English Phonetics	Khenpo Zhenga

 

Other names

• མཁན་པོ་གཞན་དགའ་
• རྒྱ་ཀོང་མཁན་ཆེན་གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་
• གཞན་ཕན་བྱམས་པའི་གོ་ཆ་
• མཁས་མཆོག་གཞན་ཕན་སྣང་བ་
• རྫོགས་ཆེན་མཁན་རབས་༡༩་
• རྫོང་སར་མཁན་རབས་༠༡་

• mkhan po gzhan dga'
• rgya kong mkhan chen gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba
• gzhan phan byams pa'i go cha
• mkhas mchog gzhan phan snang ba
• rdzogs chen mkhan rabs 19
• rdzong sar mkhan rabs 01

Alternate names

• Khenpo Zhenga
• Khenpo Shenga

Dates

Birth:	1871
Death:	1927
Place of birth:	rdza chu (khams)

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Iron
Animal	Sheep
Rab Jyung	15

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Fire
Animal	Rabbit
Rab Jyung	16

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Primary Professional Affiliation

shrI sing ha bshad grwa (Dzogchen Monastery)

Other Professional Affiliation

rdzong sar khams bye grwa tshang;

Is emanation of

Gyalse Zhenpen Taye

Teachers

'jam dbyangs blo gter dbang po · 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros · Dzogchen Drubwang, 5th · o rgyan bstan 'dzin nor bu · mi pham rgya mtsho · Tai Situpa, 11th · Shechen Rabjam, 5th · sga ston ngag dbang legs pa · pad+ma badz+ra

Students

'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros · rwa hor chos grags · Zur mang pad+ma rnam rgyal · Khyentse, Dilgo · Gangkar Rinpoche, 9th · Kun bzang dpal ldan · pad+ma tshe dbang rgya mtsho · pad+ma theg mchog blo ldan · 'jigs med rta mgrin yon tan mgon po

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link (P699)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P699

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Zhenpen-Chokyi-Nangwa/9622

Wiki Pages

• Gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba on the DRL
• Gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba on the LIB
• Gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Zhenpen Chökyi Nangwa, a disciple of Orgyen Tendzin Norbu, was the nineteenth abbot of Dzogchen's Śrī Siṃha college, the founder and first abbot of Dzongsar's Khamshe monastic college, and the teacher of countless Nyingma, Sakya and Kagyu lamas. He and his disciples are said to have established nearly one hundred study centers, emphasizing the study of thirteen Indian root texts.

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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.

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.

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 Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

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.