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'''Khetsün Zangpo Rinpoche''' ([[Wyl.]] ''mkhas btsun bzang po rin po che'') (1920-2009) was born in Central Tibet in 1920 from a patrilineal descent of [[ngakpa]]s. He studied the [[sutra]]s and [[tantra]]s from 1937 to 1949. After which and until 1955 he mainly practised in closed retreat. In 1959 he fled Tibet for India where he first spent two years on retreat. Then he went to Japan to teach for 10 years at the request of Kyabjé [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]. Back in India he became in charge of the [[Library of Tibetan Works and Archives]] in [[Dharamsala]]. He is the author of many volumes of teachings including the outstanding ''Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism'' in 12 vol.
Rinpoche lived at his monastery in Sundarijal in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, which he established at the request of Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoché. He passed into [[parinirvana]] on 6th December, 2009.
He attended the historic gathering at [[Prapoutel 1990|Prapoutel]] in 1990. ([http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Khetsun_Zangpo_Rinpoche Source Accessed Jun 24, 2015])
In 2025, an autobiography was published with the help of Tsadra Foundation: [[The All Illuminating Mirror]]: The Life Journey of Venerable Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche in His Own Words. Katy TX, Nyingma Dojoling (USA), 2025. +
Ngawang Tenzin Chökyi Gyaltsen (Wyl. ngag dbang bstan 'dzin chos kyi rgyal mtshan) aka the 11th Dzatrul Rinpoche was recognized by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, Karmapa Rangjung Rigpé Dorje and Trulshik Rinpoche as an incarnation of Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, a main master of the Mount Everest region and the root teacher of Trulshik Rinpoche. His predecessor was based in Rongpuk Monastery, on the northern slopes of Mount Everest.
Dzatrul Rinpoche received most of his education at Mindroling Monastery. There he studied with many masters but especially with Mewa Khenpo Tupten Özer, his root guru. He also received empowerments and nyingtik transmissions from Dudjom Rinpoche, as well as instructions on Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara and Dzogchen from Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen.
Dzatrul Rinpoche resides in Swayambhu, Nepal, where in 1983 he established a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Shri Do Ngag Chöling. ([https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Dzatrul_Rinpoche Source: Rigpa Wiki]) +
Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen was a teacher of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, especially for the ''Bodhicharyavatara'', for which he held Patrul Rinpoche’s lineage, having received it from one of the great khenpos at Dzogchen monastery.... (Keep reading at [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Khunu_Lama_Tenzin_Gyaltsen Rigpa Wiki].)
Further details in [https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/mandala/archives/mandala-for-2015/july/the_great_kindness_of_khunu_lama_rinpoche.pdf the story of Khunu Lama as told by Baling Lama]. +
Khyentse Tulku Dzamling Wangyal was a son of Dudjom Lingpa and one of the incarnations of Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje... [he] assumed the leadership of Dartsang Kalzang Gompa after the departure of Dudjom Lingpa. (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Khyentse_Tulku_Dzamling_Wangyal Rigpa Wiki]) +
Khyungtrul Pema Wangchen Tendzin Trinley (1870-?) was born in the khyung po area of eastern Tibet, met Dza Patrul Rinpoche, Orgyen Jigme Chokyi Wangpo (dpal sprul o rgyan 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po, 1808-1887), and his main teachers were Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo ('jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po, 1820-1892) and Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas, 1813-1899). He later became an influential teacher in central Tibet where he gave the transmission of the ''rin chen gter mdzod chen mo'' and other major ''rnying ma'' teachings. He was also a treasure discoverer (''gter ston'').
(Source: [[Khyung sprul pad+ma dbang chen bstan 'dzin phrin las kyi rnam thar]]: The Autobiography of Khyung Sprul Padma Dbang Chen Bstan 'Dzin Phrin Las. Delhi: Shechen Publications, 1995.) +
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. ([https://www.asangasakya.com/about/ Source Accessed Feb 24, 2022]) +
*Education
:B.A. Harvard University (1988)
:M.A. Harvard University (1995)
:Ph.D. Harvard University (1998)
*Areas of Expertise
:Reproductive Justice
:Climate Justice
:Maternal Mortality
:Mindfulness & Medicine
:Buddhism, Bodies, & Sexuality
:Anthropology of South Asia
:Irrigation & Social Power
:India & Himalayas
:Obstetrics, Maternity Care, & COVID-19
([https://anso.williams.edu/profile/kgutscho/ Source Accessed April 13, 2021: Williams College])
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King, a Quaker and Buddhist, is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University and Affiliated Faculty, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of Theology, Georgetown University. She is the author, co-editor or translator of numerous works on Buddhism, Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist-Christian dialogue, interfaith dialogue, and the cross-cultural philosophy of religion. ([https://esr.earlham.edu/node/962 Source Accessed July 24, 2020]) +
Kirill Solonin’s research in the BuddhistRoad project was mainly devoted to the contextualizing of several Tangut Buddhist texts, belonging to the domain of legitimation, within a more general framework of Buddhism of Northern China in the tenth through the thirteenth centuries. Kirill Solonin received a PhD degree from St Petersburg University in 1997 and obtained full doctorate in 2007. ([https://ceres.rub.de/en/people/ksolonin/ Source Accessed May 7, 2021])
During his career he worked in St. Petersburg University and Institute for Oriental Manuscript Research, specializing in Buddhism and Tangut language and texts. Since 2013 he has been working in the Department of History and Philology of China Western Regions, Renmin University of China. In 2010-2011 he was a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey. +
Kiyotaka Goshima is a Japanese scholar of Buddhist studies and Sanskrit who was affiliated with Kyoto University. He specializes in Indic and Buddhist studies, with particular expertise in Sanskrit manuscripts and Tibetan Buddhist texts.
In 1983, Goshima co-compiled (with Keiya Noguchi) ''A Succinct Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Possession of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University'' for the Society for Indic and Buddhistic Studies at Kyoto University. This important cataloguing work documented Sanskrit manuscripts that had been collected by Professor Ryozaburo Sakaki (1872-1946), who had gathered them in Nepal and established the Sanskrit and Sanskrit Literature course at Kyoto Imperial University.
Also in 1983, Goshima published his edition of ''The Tibetan Text of the Second Bhāvanākrama'', providing scholars with a critical edition of the Tibetan version of Kamalaśīla's important 8th-century meditation text. This work filled a significant gap in the available scholarly editions of the ''Bhāvanākrama'' series.
Goshima's work represents an important contribution to the preservation and dissemination of Buddhist textual traditions, particularly in making Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist materials accessible to the scholarly community through both cataloguing and critical editing. +
Kiyotaka Kimura is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies at Tokyo University and the former President of Tsurumi University. He is Chairman of Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK - Society for the Promotion of Buddhism). +
Klaus Ludwig Janert (Wittenberg 9.3.1922 — 10.12.1994) was a German Indologist and Professor in Cologne. He studied Indology, Tamil, IE and Slavic linguistics at Halle (under Thieme) and Göttingen, where [he earned his] Ph.D. [in] 1954. He worked in Göttingen University Library. He retired in 1987. He was a demanding teacher and critic. Married twice, with Imogen Mutschmann and Ilse Pliester.
The main field of Janert was clearly the study of manuscripts, while a further interest was the Aśoka inscriptions, also history of Indology, Tamil, and Nakhi. Among his students was U. Niklas. ([https://whowaswho-indology.info/2784/janert-klaus-ludwig/ Adapted from Source Jan 15, 2024]) +
*[http://www.univie.ac.at/cirdis/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=67&lang=en Tibetology at CIRDIS]
'''Bio:'''
:Venerable Yuen Hang Memorial Trust Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
Klaus-Dieter Mathes is a professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Hong Kong. His current research deals with exclusivism, inclusivism, and tolerance in Mahāyāna Buddhism. He obtained his Ph.D. from Marburg University in 1994 with a study of the Yogācāra text Dharmadharmatāvibhāga (published in 1996 in the series Indica et Tibetica). From 1993 to 2001 he served as the director of the Nepal Research Centre and the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project in Kathmandu. Before joining the University of Hong Kong in August 2023 he was the head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, where with his team he hosted the 2014 conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. He has organized and given presentations at many other conferences and symposiums, and has served as the chairman of the board of trustees of the Numata Professional Chair for Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.
His major publications include A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsāwa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga (Wisdom, 2008), A Fine Blend of Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka: Maitrīpa's Collection of Texts on Non-conceptual Realization (Amanasikāra) (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015), and Maitrīpa: India's Yogi of Nondual Bliss (Shambhala, 2021). He is also a regular contributor to the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and is the co-editor of the Vienna Series for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.
'''Current Ongoing Research:'''
*[http://www.univie.ac.at/mahamudra/index.php?article_id=11 Emptiness of Other (gzhan stong) in Tibetan Mahamudra Traditions of the 15th and 16th Centuries]
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Anne Carolyn Klein (Rigzin Drolma), Professor and Former Chair of Religious Studies, Rice University, and Founding Director of Dawn Mountain. (www.dawnmountain.org). Her six books include ''Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission''; ''Meeting the Great Bliss Queen'', ''Knowledge & Liberation, and Paths to the Middle'' as well as ''Unbounded Wholeness'' with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. She has also been a consulting scholar in several Mind and Life programs. Her central thematic interest is the interaction between head and heart as illustrated across a spectrum of Buddhist descriptions of the many varieties of human consciousness. ([https://www.colorado.edu/event/lotsawa/presenters/anne-klein Source Accessed July 24, 2020]) +
Koichi Shinohara works on Buddhism in East Asia. Before coming to Yale in 2004 he taught at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He has written on a variety of topics including Chinese Buddhist biographies, monastic rules, and Buddhist story literature, with a focus on the works of a famous historian and a vinaya specialist Daoxuan (596-677) and his collaborator Daoshi (dates unknown). Daoshi was the compiler of the Fayuan zhulin, an encyclopedic anthology of scriptural passages and Chinese Buddhist miracle stories. Shinohara reads Buddhist biographies as a distinct type of religious literature and through the study of these biographies, he also became interested in sacred places and the stories told about them. Daoxuan's writings on monastic practices opened doors to unexpected readings of Chinese Buddhist miracle stories. More recently, he has been studying the evolution of early esoteric Buddhist rituals through Chinese sources. These rituals emerged in India and developed from simpler recitation of spells to elaborate rituals performed in front of images and mandalas. Though much of the early evidence for this development no longer exists in Indic languages, it has been preserved in Chinese dharani collections and translations, some of which can be dated fairly reliably. This study sheds some light on the relationship between ritual and images. ([https://mavcor.yale.edu/people/koichi-shinohara Source Accessed Nov 29, 2023]) +
Koji Tanaka is Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University. He works on paraconsistent logic, the philosophy of logic, Buddhist philosophy, and Chinese philosophy. He is co-editor of ''Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications'' (2012) and is a co-author, with the Cowherds of ''Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy'' (2011) as well as numerous papers in logic and Buddhist philosophy. (Source: [https://research.tsadra.org/index.php/Moonpaths:_Ethics_and_Emptiness Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness]) +
Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen since 1990 in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (most recently as Head of Practice), Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, and Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan.
He was ordained as a priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received Dharma Transmission from him in 2010. Kokyo is interested in exploring how the original teachings of Buddha-Dharma from ancient India, China, and Japan can still be very much alive and useful in present-day America to bring peace and openness to the minds of this troubled world.
Kokyo has also been practicing with the Tibetan Dzogchen (“Great Completeness”) Teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche since 2003, in California, Colorado, and Kathmandu. ([https://sczc.org/kokyo-henkel-page Source Accessed Nov 20, 2020]) +
Renowned Tibetan artist and teacher based at Shechen Monastery in Nepal and the principal The Shechen Institute of Traditional Tibetan Art, or “Tsering Art School”. He was a student of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He passed away in April 2025. See also <span class="plainlinks"><span style="vertical-align: text-bottom;">[[File:BDRC_Logo.png|link=https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P9780|25px]]</span> [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P9780 BDRC]</span>
See also Shambhala Publications: https://www.shambhala.com/authors/g-n/konchog-lhadrepa.html and his book ''The Art of Awakening'' (2017).
From an official Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche Facebook Post on April 10, 2025:
'''In Loving Memory of Master Painter Konchog Lhadrepa'''
With deep sorrow, we share the passing of the extraordinary master painter Konchog Lhadrepa, who departed this life yesterday in Delhi, at the age of 70. For over five decades, Konchog-la served Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Shechen Monastery with unwavering devotion and boundless artistic vision.
A true torchbearer of the Karma Gadri tradition of Eastern Tibet, he was the founder and director of Tsering Art School in Nepal, where, over the past 25 years, he trained and inspired a new generation of gifted thangka painters. His legacy lives on not only through his students, but in the countless sacred images that continue to bless and beautify this world.
From his first monumental frescoes at Kangyur Rinpoche’s monastery in Darjeeling in the 1970s, to the resplendent murals at Shechen Monastery in the 1980s—and again, after the devastating earthquakes of 2015—Konchog-la’s hands shaped a legacy of luminous devotion. Throughout his life, he painted and oversaw the creation of hundreds of thangkas, each a window into the sacred.
He leaves behind not only the vivid brilliance of his art, but the quiet radiance of a life lived in service to the Dharma.
May his journey onward be filled with light.
May his legacy continue to inspire.
... Konchog Lhadrepa devoted his whole life to serving his guru Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, who he attended from the age of ten. When he was nineteen, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche sent Konchog to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim to train in the Karma Gadri tradition of painting with the famed painter Lhadre Tragyel. Konchog la completed the training in a remarkably swift period and since then spent his life as an artist in this tradition devoted to the service of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, fulfilling mural and thangka commissions for Shechen Monastery and its branch organizations abroad and then running the Tsering Art School since 1996...
Robin Kornman is best known for his work as a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, as well as a founding member of the Nalanda Translation Committee. Up until his death, he had spent many years working on an English translation of the Tibetan (living) epic Gesar of Ling — it is his work on this translation that has gained him the most recognition. A longtime student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kornman had been co-director of Trungpa Rinpoche's first Shambhala Buddhist retreat center in North America, Karmê Chöling, when first established in 1970.[1]
Having earned his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, Kornman was a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, published various translations and articles dealing with Buddhism, and acted as a meditation instructor and mentor to the Shambhala Buddhist Community.
Source[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Kornman] +
Kosen Nishiyama Roshi is Zen master, teacher and priest, as well as abbot (31st Patriarch) of the Daimanji Temple, a large temple in the northern Japanese metropolis of Sendai with approx. 450 active members. He is also a professor of Buddhology and English at Tohoku Fukushi University. Nishiyama Roshi was born in Sendai in 1939. He received his instruction in Zen in the main monastery of the Japanese Soto School of Zen, the Sojiji Temple in Yokohama. In 1975 his translation of Dogen Zenji's ''Shobogenzo'' was published in English. Nishiyama Roshi also translated Keizan Jokin's ''Denkoroku'' into English (published 1994). The German translations of parts of ''Shobogenzo'' in Theseus and Angkorverlag are based on these translations. ([http://www.weltfriede.at/nishiyama01.htm Source Accessed June 29, 2021]) +
