Zenkar, Alak

Zenkar, Alak on the DRL

Tibetan Buddhist Teachers • Authors of Tibetan Works

ཨ་ལགས་གཟན་དཀར་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཉི་མ་

Wylie	a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma
English Phonetics	Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
Sort Name	Zenkar, Alak
Title Suffix	Rinpoche

Other names

• gzan dkar mchog sprul thub bstan nyi ma
• a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma
• gzan dkar rin po che
• gzan dkar thub bstan nyi ma

Alternate names

• Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
• Zenkar Rinpoche
• Zenkar Rinpoché
• Alak Zenkar Rinpoché
• Alek Zenkar Rinpoche
• Alak Zenkar Rinpoche Tupten Nyima
• Tudeng Nima
• Tudeng Nima Rinpoche

Dates

Birth:	1943

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Language:	Tibetan

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Director–Paltseg Tibetan Rare Texts Research Center (dpal brtsegs bod yig dpe rnying zhib 'jug khang); Creator and lead editor for the series Ancestor's Legacies (mes po'i shul bzhag)

Biographical Information

Tudeng Nima is the 2nd Alak Zenkar Rinpoche. The 1st Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, Pema Ngödrup Rolpai Dorjé, lived from 1881 to 1943. For a short biography, see Tulku Thondup, Masters of Meditation and Miracles (Shambhala Publications, 1996), 275–77.

Tudeng Nima Rinpoche is the Director of the Paltseg Tibetan Rare Texts Research Center, TBRC board member, visiting scholar at the University of Virginia, and board member of the China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture. In 2000-2003, he was a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University in the East Asian Institute. From 2004 to the present he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia. Tudeng Nima Rinpoche has written many papers for which he has received numerous awards. He has rescued and reproduced thousands of important and rare Tibetan texts. He has made outstanding contributions to Tibetan culture and education and is renowned as one of the world’s leading Tibetan Buddhist scholars. (Adapted from BDRC September 17, 2020)

Rigpa Wiki Bio

Links

Wiki Pages

• Zenkar, Alak on the DRL
• Zenkar, Alak on the LIB
• Zenkar, Alak on the BNW

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Names

Tibetan:

ཨ་ལགས་གཟན་དཀར་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཉི་མ་

Wylie:

• gzan dkar mchog sprul thub bstan nyi ma
• a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma
• gzan dkar rin po che
• gzan dkar thub bstan nyi ma

Other Transliterations in use:

• Zenkar Rinpoche
• Zenkar Rinpoché
• Alak Zenkar Rinpoché
• Alek Zenkar Rinpoche
• Alak Zenkar Rinpoche Tupten Nyima
• Tudeng Nima
• Tudeng Nima Rinpoche

Note: "gzan dkar" means "white shawl"

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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.