Ngag dbang kun dga' dbang phyug

ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་

Ngawang Kunga Wangchuk(1921 - 2008) 

Born in:

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red mda' (sde dge)

Notes on dates:

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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

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

• ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ · other names (Tibetan)
• རྫོང་སར་མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ · other names (Tibetan)
• མདོ་སྲིབ་མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ · other names (Tibetan)
• kun dga' dbang phyug · other names (Wylie)
• rdzong sar mkhan po kun dga' dbang phyug · other names (Wylie)
• mdo srib mkhan po kun dga’ dbang phyug · other names (Wylie)
• Ngawang Kunga Wangchug · other names
• Khenchen Kunga Wangchuk · other names

Affiliations & relations

• Sakya · religious affiliation
• Dzongsar Monastery · primary professional affiliation
• 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros · teacher
• https://khyentsefoundation.org/project/part-x-khenpo-kunga-wangchuk/ · websites

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་