Khenpo Gangshar

PersonType	Category:Khenpos Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Khenpo Gangshar
MainNameTib	མཁན་པོ་གང་ཤར་
MainNameWylie	Mkhan po gang shar
AltNamesTib	གང་ཤར་དབང་པོ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་  ·  གང་ཤར་རང་གྲོལ་དབང་པོ་
AltNamesWylie	gang shar dbang po  ·  gang shar dbang po 'jigs med phyogs las rnam rgyal
AltNamesOther	Khenpo Gangshar  ·  Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo  ·  Khenpo Gangshar Rangdrol Wangpo
YearBirth	1925
YearDeath	1959?
DatesNotes	The above date of his passing is based on the assertion that he died shortly after being jailed during the Chinese invasion. However, there are apparently other reports that he actually remained in prison for twenty years and passed away sometime around 1980.
BornIn	brtse chen chos gling, Tibet
ReligiousAffiliation	Nyingma; Kagyu;
StudentOf	Jamgön Kongtrul Khyentse Özer
TeacherOf	Trungpa, Chogyam  ·  Thrangu Rinpoche  ·  chos kyi rgya mtsho  ·  o rgyan bstan 'dzin  ·  thub bstan brtson 'grus  ·  karma mthar phyin
BDRC	http://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P9526
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo (Tib. མཁན་པོ་གང་ཤར་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. mkhan po gang shar dbang po) (b. 1925) - a renowned master of the 'crazy wisdom' approach, who was connected with Shechen Monastery. He was the root teacher of both Chögyam Trungpa and Thrangu Rinpoche, and also one of Dezhung Rinpoche's teachers. For a while it was thought that he died in prison between 1958 and 196, but it has also been reported that he in fact survived 22 years of imprisonment, and passed away in 1980/1, before any of his former students could contact him. His writings include: A Song to Introduce the Unmistaken View of the Great Perfection, Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: Instructions to Guide You on the Profound Path, and Vomiting Gold. (Source Accessed July 28, 2020)
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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.

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