Khetsun Sangpo

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Khetsun Sangpo
MainNameTib	མཁས་བཙུན་བཟང་པོ་
MainNameWylie	mkhas btsun bzang po
AltNamesWylie	mkhas btsun bzang po rin po che
AltNamesOther	Khetsun Zangpo  ·  Khetsün Zangpo Rinoche
YearBirth	1920
YearDeath	2009
ReligiousAffiliation	Nyingma; Tibetan Buddhism
StudentOf	chos dbyings bzang mo  ·  Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje  ·  Longchen Yeshe Dorje  ·  Dilgo Khyentse Tashi Paljor  ·  The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso  ·  Chatral Sangye Dorje
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Names

Tibetan: མཁས་བཙུན་བཟང་པོ་

Wylie:

• mkhas btsun bzang po
• mkhas btsun bzang po rin po che

Other Transliterations in use:

• Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay
• Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche
• Khetsün Sangpo

Dates

Born: 1920
Died: 2009

Other Biographical Information

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 ngakpas. He studied the sutras and tantras 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 Jikdral Yeshe Dorje. 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 in 1990. (Source Accessed Jun 24, 2015)

Literary Works

In Tibetan

• The Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in 12 vol.
• An extra 13th vol. based on Dunhuang caves discovery called An early history of Tibet edited from the findings unearthed at the Dunhuang caves
• An autobiography
• Proverbs and Poems

In English

• Tantric Practice in Nyingma translated by J. Hopkins, Snow Lion, 1982,1996 (on the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro)
• Fundamental Mind by Mipam Rinpoche with practical commentary by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpochay, Translated by J. Hopkins, Snow Lion, 2006.

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.