Kangyur Rinpoche

Kangyur Rinpoche on the DRL

Authors of Tibetan Works • Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

ཀློང་ཆེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་

Wylie	klong chen ye shes rdo rje
English Phonetics	Longchen Yeshe Dorje

Other names

• བཀའ་འགྱུར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་

• bka' 'gyur rin po che

Alternate names

• Kangyur Rinpoche

Dates

Birth:	1898
Death:	January 23, 1975
Place of birth:	khams

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Male
Element	Earth
Animal	Dog
Rab Jyung	15

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Familial Relations

Father of Pema Wangyal, Rangdrol Rinpoche, and Jigme Khyentse

Teachers

Rje drung phrin las byams pa 'byung gnas

Students

Pema Wangyal · Jigme Khyentse

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P734

Wiki Pages

• Kangyur Rinpoche on the DRL
• Kangyur Rinpoche on the LIB
• Kangyur Rinpoche on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Kangyur Rinpoche, Longchen Yeshe Dorje (Tib. བཀའ་འགྱུར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཀློང་ཆེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. bka' 'gyur rin po che klong chen ye shes rdo rje) (1898-1975) was a great master and tertön from Riwoche Monastery in Kham, East Tibet; his root teacher was Jedrung Trinlé Jampa Jungné. In exile, he lived in Darjeeling, where he met and taught some of the very first western students of Tibetan Buddhism, including Matthieu Ricard. Kangyur Rinpoche is the father of Pema Wangyal Rinpoche, Rangdröl Rinpoche, and Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche. His commentaries on Jikme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities and Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend have been translated into English by the Padmakara Translation Group. (Source Accessed Jan 27, 2020)

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.

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.