Dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho

Dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors • Khenpos

དགེ་མང་མཁན་ཆེན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Wylie	dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho
English Phonetics	Gemang Khenchen Yöntan Gyatso
Sort Name	Yönten Gyatso

Other names

• མཁན་པོ་ཡོན་རྒྱ་

• mkhan po yon rgya

Alternate names

• Khenpo Yöngya

Dates

Birth:	19th century
Place of birth:	dge mang

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Teachers

Dpal sprul rin po che · O rgyan bstan 'dzin nor bu · Rgyal sras gzhan phan mtha' yas · Mi pham rgya mtsho · pad+ma badz+ra

Students

Kun bzang dpal ldan

Biographical Information

Khenpo Yönga aka Khenchen Yönten Gyatso (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. yon tan rgya mtsho) (19th-20th C.) was a personal student of Patrul Rinpoche and Orgyen Tendzin Norbu. He belonged to Gemang Monastery, a branch of Dzogchen Monastery, and studied at Dzogchen and Shechen monasteries. He wrote a very popular two-part commentary on Rigdzin Jikme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities, called Lamp of Moonlight and Rays of Sunlight. Among his students were Changma Khenchen Thubten Chöpel (the teacher of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Khenpo Jikmé Phuntsok) and Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin of Washul Mewa (who attained the rainbow body). (Source: Rigpawiki)

Links

BDRC Link (P6961)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6961

Wiki Pages

• Dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho on the DRL
• Dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho on the LIB

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.