Dzogchen Ponlop, The 7th

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English Phonetics	Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Alternate names

• Karma Sungrap Ngedön Tenpa Gyaltsen

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

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• Dzogchen Ponlop, The 7th on the DRL
• Dzogchen Ponlop, The 7th on the LIB
• Dzogchen Ponlop, The 7th on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Which Wheel Turning
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་དཔོན་སློབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་། : ཀར་མ་གསུང་རབ་ངེས་དོན་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་།

Wylie:

• Rdzogs chen dpon slob
  
• rdzogs chen dpon slob rin po che
  
• Karma nges don gsung rab bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan
  
• rje dpon rin po che
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
  
• The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Ngedon Sungrab Tenpe Gyaltsen
  
• Ngedon Sungrab Tenpe Gyaltsen
• Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen
  
• Karma Sungrap Ngedön Tenpa Gyaltsen - "Victory Banner of the Scriptures of Definitive Meaning"
  
• Ponlop Rinpoche
  
• The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop
  
• DPR
  

Dates

b. 1965 in Sikkim, Northern India - presently resides in Seattle, WA, USA

Affiliation

Nyingma and Kagyu

Dzogchen Monastery, Khams

Founder of Nalandabodhi, Nitartha Institute, Nalandabodhi International, Nitartha Translation Network.

Other Biographical Information

Longevity Supplication for the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Previous Incarnations

• 1st Dzogchen Ponlop Namkha Osel
• 2nd Dzogchen Ponlop Pema Sangngak Tendzin
• 3rd Dzogchen Ponlop Namkha Chokyi Gyatso
• 4th Dzogchen Ponlop Jigme Choying Osel
• 5th Dzogchen Ponlop Konchok Tenpe Nyima
• 6th Dzogchen Ponlop Jigtral Tsewang Dorje
• 7th Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen)

Websites

Biography of The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche (Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen)
DPR Homepage
Nalandabodhi - the Sangha of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Nalandabodhi Canada - the Sangha of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in Canada
Nitartha Institute - A yearly academic program held in Canada

• Dzogchen Gompa website
• Dzogchen Rinpoche and Dzogchen Monastery India
• Dzogchen history and Dzogchen Monastery Tibet

Main Teachers

• Karmapa, 16th, Rangjung Rikpey Dorje
• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
  
• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
• Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
• Karmapa, 17th

Quotes

Let go and relax.

Other Books

2003: "Brief Histories of the Sixteen Karmapas". In: Music in the Sky: The Life, Art & Teachings of the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Snow Lion Publications, U.S.A. First Indian Reprint: New Age Books, New Delh. (2004). ISBN 81-7822-193-4.
2003: Wild Awakening: The Heart of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. ISBN 1590300963 (SP)
2006: Penetrating Wisdom: the Aspiration of Samantabhadra. ISBN 1559392665 (SLP)
2007: Mind Beyond Death. ISBN 1559392762 (SLP)

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

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.

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra