Dzogchen Pema Kalsang

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རྫོགས་ཆེན་པདྨ་བསྐལ་བཟང་

Wylie	rdzogs chen pad+ma bskal bzang
English Phonetics	Dzogchen Pema Kalsang
Sort Name	Dzogchen Pema Kalsang

Dates

Birth:	1943
Place of birth:	Dzachuka, Eastern Tibet

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma, Dzogchen

Biographical Information

Having received an intense and enlightening education with some of the most eminent masters of the 20th century, while still a teenager, Dzogchen Pema Kalsang Rinpoche became twelfth throne holder of Dzogchen Monastery. Throughout the bleak period of the 1960s and '70s, he managed to maintain and practice the Dharma in secret, and as soon as circumstances permitted, he completely rebuilt Dzogchen Monastery, Shirasing Buddhist College, and established the Lotus Ground Great Perfection Retreat Centre. He now devotes his time to teaching Dzogpa Chenpo to tens of thousands of studetns from all over the world, and to date, thirty-two volumes of his teachings have been published in Tibetan. (Source: Introduction to the Nature of Mind (Dzogchen Pema Kalsang) (2019), translated by Christian Stewart.

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• Dzogchen Pema Kalsang 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.

Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition.