Mkhan po gang shar

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Khenpos • Classical Tibetan Authors

མཁན་པོ་གང་ཤར་

Wylie	Mkhan po gang shar
English Phonetics	Khenpo Gangshar

 

Other names

• གང་ཤར་དབང་པོ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
• གང་ཤར་རང་གྲོལ་དབང་པོ་

• gang shar dbang po
• gang shar dbang po 'jigs med phyogs las rnam rgyal

Alternate names

• Khenpo Gangshar
• Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo
• Khenpo Gangshar Rangdrol Wangpo

Dates

Birth:	1925
Death:	1959?
Notes on dates:	The above date of his passing is based on the assertion that he died shortly after being jailed during the Chinese invasion. However, there are apparently other reports that he actually remained in prison for twenty years and passed away sometime around 1980.
Place of birth:	brtse chen chos gling, Tibet

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Rab Jyung

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About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma; Kagyu;

Teachers

Jamgön Kongtrül, 2nd

Students

Trungpa, Chogyam · Thrangu Rinpoche · chos kyi rgya mtsho · o rgyan bstan 'dzin · thub bstan brtson 'grus · karma mthar phyin

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Links

BDRC Link

http://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P9526

Wiki Pages

• Mkhan po gang shar on the DRL
• Mkhan po gang shar on the LIB
• Mkhan po gang shar on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo (Tib. མཁན་པོ་གང་ཤར་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. mkhan po gang shar dbang po) (b. 1925) - a renowned master of the 'crazy wisdom' approach, who was connected with Shechen Monastery. He was the root teacher of both Chögyam Trungpa and Thrangu Rinpoche, and also one of Dezhung Rinpoche's teachers. For a while it was thought that he died in prison between 1958 and 196, but it has also been reported that he in fact survived 22 years of imprisonment, and passed away in 1980/1, before any of his former students could contact him. His writings include: A Song to Introduce the Unmistaken View of the Great Perfection, Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: Instructions to Guide You on the Profound Path, and Vomiting Gold. (Source Accessed July 28, 2020)

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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.

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.

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.

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.