Sangpo, Khetsun

Sangpo, Khetsun on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

མཁས་བཙུན་བཟང་པོ་

Wylie	mkhas btsun bzang po
English Phonetics	Khetsun Sangpo

Other names

• mkhas btsun bzang po rin po che

Alternate names

• Khetsun Zangpo
• Khetsün Zangpo Rinoche

Dates

Birth:	1920
Death:	2009

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma; Tibetan Buddhism

Teachers

chos dbyings bzang mo · Dudjom Rinpoche · Kangyur Rinpoche · Khyentse, Dilgo · Dalai Lama, 14th · Chatral Rinpoche

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

http://tbrc.org/#!rid=P00KG09697

Wiki Pages

• Sangpo, Khetsun on the DRL
• Sangpo, Khetsun on the LIB

Names

Tibetan: མཁས་བཙུན་བཟང་པོ་

Wylie:

• mkhas btsun bzang po
• mkhas btsun bzang po rin po che

Other Transliterations in use:

• Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay
• Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche
• Khetsün Sangpo

Dates

Born: 1920
Died: 2009

Other Biographical Information

Khetsün Zangpo Rinpoche (Wyl. mkhas btsun bzang po rin po che) (1920-2009) was born in Central Tibet in 1920 from a patrilineal descent of ngakpas. He studied the sutras and tantras from 1937 to 1949. After which and until 1955 he mainly practised in closed retreat. In 1959 he fled Tibet for India where he first spent two years on retreat. Then he went to Japan to teach for 10 years at the request of Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche. Back in India he became in charge of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala. He is the author of many volumes of teachings including the outstanding Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in 12 vol. Rinpoche lived at his monastery in Sundarijal in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, which he established at the request of Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoché. He passed into parinirvana on 6th December, 2009.

He attended the historic gathering at Prapoutel in 1990. (Source Accessed Jun 24, 2015)

Literary Works

In Tibetan

• The Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in 12 vol.
• An extra 13th vol. based on Dunhuang caves discovery called An early history of Tibet edited from the findings unearthed at the Dunhuang caves
• An autobiography
• Proverbs and Poems

In English

• Tantric Practice in Nyingma translated by J. Hopkins, Snow Lion, 1982,1996 (on the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro)
• Fundamental Mind by Mipam Rinpoche with practical commentary by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpochay, Translated by J. Hopkins, Snow Lion, 2006.

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.