Khenpo Zhenga

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Khenpo Zhenga

གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་

1871 – 1927

Zhenpen Chokyi Nangwa, a disciple of Orgyen Tendzin Norbu, was the nineteenth abbot of Dzogchen's Śrī Siṃha college, the founder and first abbot of Dzongsar's Khamshe monastic college, and the teacher of countless Nyingma, Sakya and Kagyu lamas. He and his disciples was said to have established nearly one hundred study centers, emphasizing the study of thirteen Indian root texts.

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མཁན་པོ་གཞན་དགའ་རྒྱ་ཀོང་མཁན་ཆེན་གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་གཞན་ཕན་བྱམས་པའི་གོ་ཆ་མཁས་མཆོག་གཞན་ཕན་སྣང་བ་རྫོགས་ཆེན་མཁན་རབས་༡༩་རྫོང་སར་མཁན་རབས་༠༡་mkhan po gzhan dga'rgya kong mkhan chen gzhan phan chos kyi snang bagzhan phan byams pa'i go chamkhas mchog gzhan phan snang bardzogs chen mkhan rabs 19rdzong sar mkhan rabs 01Khenpo ZhengaKhenpo Shenga

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Emanation of

Gyalse Zhenpen Taye

Student of

Mipam GyatsoJamyang Loter WangpoJamyang Khyentse Chökyi LodröKhenpo Pema VajraTai Situpa11thOrgyen Tendzin NorbuDzogchen Drubwang5thShechen Rabjam5thGatön Ngawang Lekpa

Teacher of

Kunzang PaldenKhyentseDilgoJamyang Khyentse Chökyi LodröJigme Yönten GönpoGangkar Rinpoche9thZurmang Pema NamgyalPad+ma tshe dbang rgya mtshoRwa hor chos gragsPad+ma theg mchog blo ldan

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Library items authored or translated by Khenpo Zhenga.

Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt महासन्धि  Tib རྫོགས་ཆེན།  

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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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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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Kagyu - 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. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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