Kunzang Palden

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Kunzang Palden

ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་

1862 – 1943

Khenchen Kunzang Pelden was a Nyingma scholar and teacher associated with Katok Monastery. A student of a number of distinguished Nyingma teachers including Dza Patrul and Ju Mipam, he was an important Longchen Nyingtik lineage holder. He composed a famous commentary to the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra (The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech), and served Katok Monastery as the first abbot of its study center, Shedrub Norbu Lhunpo, for three years. Following retirement he returned to his hometown and taught until his death in 1944.

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མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དཔལ་མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་mkhan po kun dpalmkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan thub bstan chos kyi grags pamkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan

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Student of

Mipam GyatsoPatrul RinpocheDodrupchen3rdKhenpo ZhengaKhenpo Pema VajraOrgyen Tendzin NorbuGemang Khenchen Yöntan Gyatso

Teacher of

Zhechen Gyaltsab4thJamyang Khyentse Chökyi LodröKhunu Lama Tenzin GyaltsenBötrul Dongak Tenpai NyimaA 'dzom rgyal sras 'gyur med rdo rjeKhenpo Ngaga

18 Authored & Translated Works

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Nyingma - 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. Tib རྙིང་མ་  

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