Tenga Rinpoche

Tenga Rinpoche on the DRL

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བསྟན་དགའ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་

Wylie	bstan dga' rin po che
English Phonetics	Tenga Rinpoche

Dates

Birth:	1932
Death:	2012

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Kagyu

Primary Professional Affiliation

Benchen Monastery

Students

Sangye Nyenpa, 10th

Other Biographical info:

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. Keep reading at Benchen.org

Links

BDRC Link (P850)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P850

Wiki Pages

• Tenga Rinpoche on the DRL
• Tenga Rinpoche on the LIB

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.