Dzogchen Khenpo Tupten Tsöndru

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Dzogchen Khenpo Tupten Tsöndru

རྫོགས་ཆེན་མཁན་པོ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་

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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Also known as

མཁན་པོ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་མཁན་ཆེན་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་mkhan po brtson 'grusmkhan chen brtson 'grus

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Authors of Tibetan WorksKhenpos

Student of

Shechen Kongtrul Pema DrimeKhunu Lama Tenzin GyaltsenBötrul Dongak Tenpai NyimaJigme Yönten GönpoKhenpo GangsharDodrupchen4thRdzogs chen mkhan po pad+ma tshe dbang

Teacher of

Rdzogs chen mkhan po zla ba'i 'od zerMkhan chen pad+ma shes rab

1 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Dzogchen Khenpo Tupten Tsöndru.

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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