The Second Pabongkha, Dechen Nyingpo

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The Second Pabongkha, Dechen Nyingpo
ཕ་བོང་ཁ ༠༢ བདེ་ཆེན་སྙིང་པོ།
1878 - 1942
Pabongkha Dechen Nyingpo, also known as Jampa Tendzin Trinle Gyatso, was one of the most popular Geluk teachers in the Lhasa Valley in the first half of the twentieth century. His influence also spread to many areas of central Tibet and Kham. Pabongkha's main student, the Third Trijang Rinpoche, was appointed tutor of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Pabongkha taught and composed works on numerous topics, but is today often remembered for his dissemination of the practice of the deity Dorje Shugden.
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