Dzogchen Khenpo Tupten Tsöndru

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Dzogchen Khenpo Tupten Tsöndru
རྫོགས་ཆེན་མཁན་པོ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་
1920 - 1979
Khenpo Tubten Tsondru Puntsok was born in Golok and studied at Dzogchen and Shechen monasteries, as well as with a geshe from Sera Je. He fled Tibet in 1959, and then taught extensively in Bhutan, Sikkim and India, playing a crucial role in the re-establishment of Nyingma scholasticism, especially during his tenure at the government monastic college in Sikkim and as the first abbot of Namdroling monastic college in Bylakuppe, India.
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