Dezhung Rinpoche

PersonType	Category:Authors of Tibetan Works Category:Professors Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Category:Tulkus
MainNamePhon	Dezhung Rinpoche
MainNameTib	སྡེ་གཞུང་ཀུན་དགའ་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་
MainNameWylie	sde gzhung kun dga' bstan pa'i nyi ma
SortName	Dezhung Rinpoche
bio	Dezhung Rinpoche, born Ngawang Zangpo, (1906—1987) was a Tibetan lama of the Sakya school. In 1960 he came to the Seattle, Washington in the United States of America, one of the first Tibetan Lamas to settle and teach in the United States. He was born in the Ga (sga) region of eastern Tibet.
YearBirth	1906
YearDeath	1987
BornIn	Ga (sga) region of eastern Tibet
BDRC	http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P7679
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Third-Dezhung-Kunga-Tenpai-Nyima/10355
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Names

Tibetan: སྡེ་གཞུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཀུན་དགའ་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་
Wylie:

• sde gzhung rin po che
  
• kun dga' bstan pa'i nyi ma
  
• sde gzhung kun dga' bstan pa'i nyi ma
  
• kunga tenpai nyima, dezhung rinpoche
  
• dezhung rin poche kunga tempai nyima
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Dezhung Rinpoche
  
• Dezhung Lungrig Tulku Kunga Tenpa Nyima
  
• Dezhung Lungrik Tulku Jampa Kunga Tenpé Nyima Rinpoche
  
• Born Ngawang Zangpo
  

Dates

Born: 1906
Died: 1987

Affiliation

Seat: thar lam dgon pa (sga)

Other Biographical Information

Dezhung Rinpoche, born Ngawang Zangpo, (1906—1987) was a Tibetan lama of the Sakya school. In 1960 he came to the Seattle, Washington in the United States of America, one of the first Tibetan Lamas to settle and teach in the United States. He was born in the Ga (sga) region of eastern Tibet.

TBRC RID: P7679

Main Teachers

• Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

Writings About Dezhung Rinpoche

David Jackson, Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003

Writings

• gsung 'bum / kun dga' bstan pa'i nyi ma

dharamsala library of tibetan works & archives 2005

• ngor e wam chos ldan gyi gdan rabs nor bu'i phreng ba mtshan grangs rin chen za ma tog
• rje btsun bla ma dam pa 'jam dbyangs rgyal mtshan gyi rnam thar mdor sdus skal bzang rna rgyan

new delhi t.g. dhongthog rimpoche 1983