Ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug

ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་

Ngawang Kunga Wangchuk(1921 - 2008) 

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red mda' (sde dge)

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• notes in colophon to his tshad ma rnam nges commentary that he wrote this in 1993, his 73rd year, which would mean that he must have been born in 1921
• the english introduction notes that he was born in 1923
• obituary in the khyentse foundation bulletin gives dates as 1921-2008
• Passed away on May 25, 2008

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Celebrated contemporary Sakya scholar who held the office of abbot of Dzongsar Monastery. A brief biography can be found in his obituary published here, and a short video tribute can be watched here.

Other names

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• https://khyentsefoundation.org/project/part-x-khenpo-kunga-wangchuk/ · websites

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'jog sgom - This is the meditation of directly observing the mind without engaging in any analytical or intellectual activity. (Thrangu Rinpoche, Transcending Ego, 102). Skt. स्थाप्यभावना Tib. འཇོག་སྒོམ་

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་