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Important philosopher of the 'bri gung bka' brgyud tradition +
See Treasury of Lives [http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ngulchu-Dharmabhadra/4631] +
Known for his Extensive Commentary on the Guhyagarbha Tantra (dpal gsang ba snying po'i rgya cher 'grel pa). +
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19th century +
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Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa was a major translator of Madhyamaka texts into Tibet. A a monk of Sangpu Monastery, he traveled in in Kashmir to work with paṇḍitas such as X and Y. Among his translations are Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Āryadeva's Catuhśataka-śāstra (Four Hundred Verses), and Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatāra. His commentary on the Nagarjuna is possibly the earliest Tibetan exegesis of the work. In Tibet he is considered the founder of the Prasangika school of Madhyamaka. +
20th cent. +
20th century +
He wrote an outer biography of Chogyur Lingpa, which he signs as Padma Jñāna and refers to himself as an old student of his. +
Khenpo Dawa Paljor (Tib. ཟླ་བ་དཔལ་འབྱོར་, Wyl. zla ba dpal 'byor) was born in 1975 in Thimphu in Bhutan as the son of Tsering Lhamo, his mother, and Sangyé Dorje, his father who worked at the royal court of Bhutan. Until the age of eleven Khenpo studied at a regular English school before he started focusing on Tibetan grammar and Dharma studies at the Semtokha school in Bhutan which was founded by Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Finishing school at 18 he traveled to Bodhgaya, and after partaking in the Nyingma Mönlam, he was inspired to monkhood. At the age of 19 Khenpo enrolled at the Namdroling Monastery Shedra. In his penultimate year he went to Bir where he taught at Ringu Tulku Rinpoche's Palyul Chökhorling Monastery.
After their nine year education Khenpos are required to serve on behalf of their monasteries for at least three years. In Khenpo Dawé Paljor's case he taught for four years on Vajrayana, Tibetan grammar and other subjects. After teaching at the nunnery in Namdroling for a year he went back to teach at the Shedra where he was a former student, before leaving for Dzogchen Monastery in south India where he taught for another year.
In the last three years he has been teaching at Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's Shechen Monastery where his main subject has been Longchenpa's Finding Comfort and Ease in the Nature of Mind (Tib. Semnyi Ngalso, Wyl. sems nyid ngal gso). Upon leaving Shedra East Khenpo will return to Shechen to continue to teach.
Besides his root teacher, Kyabjé Penor Rinpoche, he has been studying with Dzetrul Rinpoche, Khenpo Namdrol and Khenpo Pema Sherab. On one occasion he also received a long life empowerment from Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. (Source: [http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Khenpo_Dawa_Paljor Rigpa Shedra]) +
Lobsang Palden Yeshe was the sixth Panchen Lama of Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet. He was the elder stepbrother of the 10th Shamarpa, Mipam Chödrup Gyamtso (1742–1793).
The Panchen Lama was distinguished by his writings and interest in the world. In 1762 he gave the Eighth Dalai Lama his pre-novice ordination at the Potala Palace and named him Jamphel Gyatso.
He befriended George Bogle, a Scottish adventurer and diplomat who had made an expedition to Tibet and stayed at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse from 1774-1775. He negotiated with Warren Hastings, the Governor of India, through Bogle. The Rājā of Bhutan invaded Cooch Behar (in the plains of Bengal - neighboring British India), in 1772 and Palden Yelde, tutor to the young Dalai Lama at the time, helped arbitrate the negotiations.
He also had dealings with Lama Changkya Hutukhtu, Counsellor of the Emperor of China and chief advisor on Tibetan affairs, about speculations that the Chinese god of war and patron of the Chinese dynasty, Guandi (Kuan-ti), was identical with Gesar, the hero of Tibet's main epic story, who was prophesied to return from Shambhala to Tibet to help it when the country and Buddhism were in difficulties. Others believed Guandi/Gesar was an incarnation of the Panchen Lama. Palden Yeshe wrote a half-mystical book about the road to Shambhala, the Prayer of Shambhala, incorporating real geographical features.
In 1778, the Qianlong Emperor invited Palden Yeshe to Beijing to celebrate his 70th birthday. He left with a huge retinue in 1780 and was greeted along the way by Chinese representatives. To mark the occasion, Qianlong ordered the construction of Xumi Fushou Temple, based on the design of Tashilhunpo Monastery, at the Chengde Mountain Resort. When Palden Yeshe reached Beijing, he was showered with riches and shown the honour normally given to the Dalai Lama. However, he contracted smallpox and died in Beijing on November 2, 1780.
Palden Yeshe's stepbrother, the 10th Shamarpa Mipam Chödrup Gyamtso, had hoped to inherit some of the riches given to his brother in Beijing after his death. When this didn't happen, he conspired with the Nepalese who sent a Gurkha army in 1788 which took control of Shigatse. The Shamarpa, however, did not keep his side of the bargain and the Gurkha army returned three years later to claim their spoils, but the Chinese sent an army to support the Tibetans and drove them back to Nepal in 1792.
The tombs from the Fifth to the Ninth Panchen Lamas were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and have been rebuilt by the 10th Panchen Lama with a huge tomb at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, known as the Tashi Langyar.
Source[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Palden_Yeshe,_6th_Panchen_Lama]
He was the older brother or cousin of KaH thog dam pa bde gshegs. +
From [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W00EGS1016899 shAkya mchog ldan] a more detailed description of important students:
དཔེ་འགྲེམས་ཀྱི་གྲྭ་པ་ལྔ་སྟོང་ཙམ་བྱུང་བར་གྲགས། དེའི་ནང་ནས་མཆོག་ཏུ་གྱུར་པ། གྲུབ་ཐོབ་མི་གསུམ། ཇོ་སྲས་མི་བཞི། ཤེས་རབ་ཅན་མི་གསུམ། སེང་ཆེན་བརྒྱད ་རྣམས་སོ། །དང་པོ་ནི། རྗེ་དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ། ཕག་མོ་གྲུབ་པ། གསལ་སྟོ་ཤོ་སྒོམ་རྣམས་སོ། །ལ་ལ་ཞང་འཚལ་པ་ཡིན་ཞེས་ཟེར། གཉིས་པ་ནི། ས་ཇོ་སྲས་བསོད་ནམས་རྩེ་མོ། མཉོས་ཇོ་སྲས་དཔལ་ལེ། ཁུ་ཇོ་སྲས་ནེ་ཙོ། རྔོག་ཇོ་སྲས་ར་མོ་རྣམས་སོ། །གསུམ་པ་ནི། རྐོང་པོ་འཇག་ཆུང༌། ལྷོ་པ་སྒོག་གཟན། པར་བུ་བ་བློ་གྲོས་སེང་གེ་རྣམས་སོ། །སྒོག་གཟན་ནི་ལྷོ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པར་གྲགས་པ་སྟེ། ལྷོ་པ་དྷར་སེང་ངོ༌། །བཞི་པ་ནི། ཕྱྭ་པའི་རྗེས་སུ་གདན་ས་ལོ་ལྔ་མཛད་པའི་བརྩེགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་སེང་གེ་གཙང་ནག་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་སེང་གེ་ རྨ་བྱ་རྩོད་པའི་སེང་གེ་ བྲུ་ཤ་བསོད་ནམས་སེང་གེ་ མྱང་བྲན་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ་ དན་འབག་པ་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ་ འདམ་པ་དཀོན་མཆོག་སེང་གེ་ རྐྱང་དུར་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་སེང་གེ་ ལ་ལ་དག་འུ་ཡུག་པ་བསོད་ནམས་སེང་གེ ཞེས་ཟེར་ཡང་དུས་མི་འགྲིག་
Another list of the seng chen rgyad can be found in the [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W7499 Chos 'byung mkhas pa'i dga' ston], p. 729:
སློབ་མ་ཐུགས་སྲས་སེང་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་ཅེས། གཙང་ནག་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་སེང་གེ དན་འབག་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ བྲུ་ཤ་བསོད་ནམས་སེང་གེ རྨ་བྱ་རྩོད་པའི་སེང་གེ རྩགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་སེང་གེ ཉང་བྲན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ འདན་མ་དཀོན་མཆོག་སེང་གེ གཉལ་པ་ཡོན་ཏན་སེང་གེ ཁ་ཅིག་གཙང་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་སེང་གེ་ཡང་འདྲེན།
And again in the [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W1KG2733 Chos rnam kun btus], p. 1853:
1. gtsang nag pa brtson 'grus seng ge
2. dan 'bag pa smra ba'i seng ge
3. bru sha bsod nams seng ge
4. rmya ba rtsod pa'i seng ge
5. rtsags dbang phyug seng ge
6. myang bran chos kyi seng ge
7. ldan ma dkon mchog seng ge
8. gnyal pa yon tan seng ge +
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Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, aka the 10th Dzatrul Rinpoche (1867-1940/42), who was one of the main teachers of Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche, is remembered especially for his commentaries on the Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas. One of the foremost disciples of Trulshik Dongak Lingpa, he became known as the Buddha of Dza Rongphu (རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་, Wyl. rdza rong phu) after his place of residence in the upper valley of the Dzakar River, which became known as Rongpuk Monastery. It was there that he undertook retreat and founded the monastery of Dongak Zungjuk Ling in 1901 on the northern slopes of Mount Everest. He also studied for many years at Mindroling Monastery.
In 1922 Ngawang Tenzin Norbu met a group of climbers led by General C. G. Bruce and later wrote about the encounter in his autobiography.
After he passed away his body was enshrined in a case made of akaro wood. It was later brought out of Tibet by Trulshik Rinpoche and the monks of Dza Rongphu as they fled in 1959. The body was cremated at Thangmé Monastery in the Solu Khumbu region of Nepal. (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Ngawang_Tenzin_Norbu Rigpa Wiki]) +
Author of the dkar brgyud gser 'phreng that includes biographies of many prominent early Kagyu masters. +
Alternative birth date 1362.
*one of the two chief disciples of tsong kha pa and his first successor on the seat of dga' ldan, 1419-1431.
:dga' ldan dgon pa dang brag yer pa'i lo rgyus (p. 58)
* birth 1364 at ri nang (nyang stod)
* Assumes Office 1419 Dga' ldan khri at dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
* Leaves Office 1431 Dga' ldan khri at dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
* death 1432
*Took the degree of dka' bcu pa at sa skya, gsang phu, and rtsed thang.
:debated against rong ston and against g.yag phrug pa.
:1419: came to the throne of dga' ldan and served ll years.
:gsung 'bum in 8 volumes. +
14th century. Husband of bsod nam dpal 'dren and author of her biography. +
Founded gsang phu ne'u thog in 1072. +
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Assumes office in 1111 +
8th century +
1892–1940 +
The Ninth Shamarpa died at age 8 and this Shamarpa was an important karma kaM tshang master and a significant political figure in the history of Tibet, Nepal and China. Because of the alleged complicity of chos grub rgya mtsho in the Nepalese invasion of Tibet, his monastery of yangs pa can was confiscated and the entire property of the zhwa dmar bla brang was impounded. The recognition of further incarnations of the zhwa dmar was prohibited. +
He was recognized in 1355 as second zhwa dmar by mkhas grub dar ma rgyal mtshan +
One of the greatest names in the karma kaM tshang tradition.
*1538 - Received teachings from dpa' bo 2 gtsug lag 'phreng ba.
*1538 - Took rab byung vows from mi bskyod rdo rje.
*1539 - Installed at yangs pa can.
*1542 - Final monastic ordination.
*1542 - Studies with stag lung mkhas mchog ngag dbang grags pa.
*1546 - Solitary retreat at tsA ri tra.
*1561 - Installs dbang phyug rdo rje at mtshur phu and confers teachings.
His gsung 'bum is about 8 volumes. ([https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1426 Source: BDRC]) +
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Passed away at age 15 +
1717 - Founds dpal spungs chos 'khor gling monastery +
Ven. Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche was born in eastern Tibet, the northern snow-enclosure, the cool land of the dharma valleys, the segment of the mandala field known as "the six ranges of lower Dokham" [...] , on the fourth day of the sixth lunar month in the Water-Monkey year of 1932. To be more specific, Rinpoche was born in the region of Dokham known as Ga. His father was descended from the upper eastern clan of the miraculously born Magyal Pomra known as Drong Sekar Gyalpo and their descendants. Rinpoche's father was Gönpo Tobgyal, one of the sons of the then Drong district official. His mothers name was Rigdzin Drölma, who came from the Gegyal Barma family clan. [https://benchen.org/en/tenga-rinpoche Keep reading at Benchen.org] +
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7th century. See [http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Tonmi-Sambhata/8342 Treasury of Lives] for bio. +
One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Tukse Kunga, often referred to as Kunga the Bodhisattva (''byang chub sems dpa' kun dga'''), is associated with the northern gate (''byang sgo''). +
Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was born in the province of Amdo – eastern Tibet – in 1926, and at age six was recognized as the reincarnation of the former abbot of the Kirti Gompa. At the age of nine, He was ordained as a monk. Rinpoche received teachings from many high Lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Lama Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche is one of the holders of the tantra of Kalachakra lineage, having received that empowerment when he was 14 years old. At the age of 32 and having completed his monastic studies he was appointed as the Abbot of Kirti.
After escaping from Tíbet in 1959, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche taught Tibetan orphans at the Tibetan Children’s Village, Dharamsala, India. At the age of 45 he began a fifteen-year meditation retreat in a small stone hermitage above Dharamsala, “big enough for a bed, prostrations, and a stove”. He spent seven years in meditation on Lam Rim, three years on “Seven Point Thought Transformation”, and some generation and completion stage tantra. Two years were spent only on generation and completion stages and in the final 3 years, Rinpoche repeated all of the above. Rinpoche has given Kalachakra commentary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and is a teacher of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, “He is a great Kadampa master who shows real Kadampa Tradition…so completely renounced. There’s not one slightest worldly activity, not the slightest eight worldly dharmas, no self cherishing thought. Even talking, everything is as much as possible pleasing to sentient being’s minds.” [https://fpmt.org/teachers/lineage-lamas/kirtitsenshab/kirtitsenshab_bio/ Source] +
1978-1980s - Professor at Northwest Minorities University in Lanzhou, Gansu Province. +
*Assumes office 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
*Leaves office 1419 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
*Founds monastery 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
*Final Ordination 1381 yar klung rnam rgyal dgon
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One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Vajra Krodha is associated with the southern gate (''lho sgo''). +
Circa 5th Century/6th Century +
(bir wa pa), one of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas of India, was born into a royal family one thousand and twenty years after Lord Buddha entered parinirvana. He took novice monk vows and entered the Nalanda monastery, of which he became abbot later. He perfected his disciples of study and meditation. However, after seventy years of one-pointed tantric practice he had not attained any siddhis of any kind, and actually negative events were happening in his life. He decided he had no connection with the tantric teachings, Vajrayana, and with this state of mind he threw his rosary into the toilet and stopped doing Deity Meditations.</br>
However, the same night Nairatmya manifested for him, and said:
:Noble son, do not act in this way. Pick up your rosary, clean it, and take up your practice again. I am the deity which whom you have a karmic connection to, and I will bestow my blessings upon you".
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The following evening Nairatmya appeared to him again in her own mandala of fifteen goddesses, and she bestowed upon him the four specific empowerments, and he reached the first bodhisattva bhumi level including the Path of Seeing. On the evening of the twenty-ninth day he became a bodhisattva of the sixth bhumi. The monastic community at Nalanda monastery knew that something strange happened, but they were dubious about the strange behavior of Virupa, and he left the monastery. [http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Virupa RYWIKI] +
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[https://jonangfoundation.org/masters/shangt%C3%B6n-gyawo-s%C3%B6nam-drakpa Biography on Jonang Foundation Website] +
12th century +