Ngawang Kunga Wangchuk

PersonType	Category:Abbots Category:Authors of Tibetan Works
MainNamePhon	Ngawang Kunga Wangchuk
MainNameTib	ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་
MainNameWylie	ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug
AltNamesTib	ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་  ·  རྫོང་སར་མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་  ·  མདོ་སྲིབ་མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་
AltNamesWylie	kun dga' dbang phyug  ·  rdzong sar mkhan po kun dga' dbang phyug  ·  mdo srib mkhan po kun dga’ dbang phyug
AltNamesOther	Ngawang Kunga Wangchug  ·  Khenchen Kunga Wangchuk
bio	Celebrated contemporary Sakya scholar who held the office of abbot of Dzongsar Monastery. A brief biography can be found in his obituary published here, and a short video tribute can be watched here.
YearBirth	1921
YearDeath	2008
DatesNotes	notes in colophon to his tshad ma rnam nges commentary that he wrote this in 1993, his 73rd year, which would mean that he must have been born in 1921 the english introduction notes that he was born in 1923 obituary in the khyentse foundation bulletin gives dates as 1921-2008 Passed away on May 25, 2008
BornIn	red mda' (sde dge)
associatedwebsite	https://khyentsefoundation.org/project/part-x-khenpo-kunga-wangchuk/
ReligiousAffiliation	Sakya
ClassicalProfAff	Dzongsar Monastery
StudentOf	Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P5785
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Celebrated contemporary Sakya scholar who held the office of abbot of Dzongsar Monastery. A brief biography can be found in his obituary published here, and a short video tribute can be watched here.
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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.

In the Buddhist literature on pramāṇa, it refers to cognition that correctly apprehends its object without any deception or mistake. Such correct cognition include direct perception and inferential cognition.