Gyaltsen, Tenpa

Gyaltsen, Tenpa on the DRL

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

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Tibetan: བསྟན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

Wylie:

• bstan pa rgyal mtshan
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Āchārya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
• Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
• Lama Tenpa
• Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
• Lama Denba Gyaltsen

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Affiliation

Teaching at Naropa University since 2004

Kagyu/Nyingma - Graduated from Karma Shri Nalanda Institute

Other Biographical Information

Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Trakar, Nepal, near the Tibetan border. He completed 10 years of traditional scholastic training at Karma Shri Nalanda Institute at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India, graduating as acharya with honours (graduated in the same class as Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche). This was followed by traditional yogic training in the first three-year retreat to be conducted at Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche's monastery in Pullahari, Nepal.

Following the advice of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Lama Tenpa taught at various Kagyu centres in Europe (Teksum Tashi Choling in Hamburg, Germany), at Nitartha, and centres in Canada. In 2004 he moved to Boulder, CO where he currently resides, teaching at Naropa University.

Lama Tenpa is one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute: http://www.nitarthainstitute.org/about_faculty.shtml

Main Teachers

• Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
• Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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.

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.