Ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug

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ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་

Wylie	ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug
English Phonetics	Ngawang Kunga Wangchuk

Other names

• ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་
• རྫོང་སར་མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་
• མདོ་སྲིབ་མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་

• kun dga' dbang phyug
• rdzong sar mkhan po kun dga' dbang phyug
• mdo srib mkhan po kun dga’ dbang phyug

Alternate names

• Ngawang Kunga Wangchug
• Khenchen Kunga Wangchuk

Dates

Birth:	1921
Death:	2008
Notes on dates:	*notes in colophon to his tshad ma rnam nges commentary that he wrote this in 1993, his 73rd year, which would mean that he must have been born in 1921 the english introduction notes that he was born in 1923 obituary in the khyentse foundation bulletin gives dates as 1921-2008 Passed away on May 25, 2008
Place of birth:	red mda' (sde dge)

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About

Religious Affiliation

Sakya

Primary Professional Affiliation

Dzongsar Monastery

Teachers

'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P5785

Wiki Pages

• Ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug on the DRL
• Ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug on the LIB
• Ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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Celebrated contemporary Sakya scholar who held the office of abbot of Dzongsar Monastery. A brief biography can be found in his obituary published here, and a short video tribute can be watched here.

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The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.

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.