Zhenpen Chokyi Nangwa, a disciple of Orgyen Tendzin Norbu, was the nineteenth abbot of Dzogchen's Śrī Siṃha college, the founder and first abbot of Dzongsar's Khamshe monastic college, and the teacher of countless Nyingma, Sakya and Kagyu lamas. He and his disciples was said to have established nearly one hundred study centers, emphasizing the study of thirteen Indian root texts. ... read more at
Other names
མཁན་པོ་གཞན་དགའ་ · other names (Tibetan)
རྒྱ་ཀོང་མཁན་ཆེན་གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་ · other names (Tibetan)
གཞན་ཕན་བྱམས་པའི་གོ་ཆ་ · other names (Tibetan)
མཁས་མཆོག་གཞན་ཕན་སྣང་བ་ · other names (Tibetan)
རྫོགས་ཆེན་མཁན་རབས་༡༩་ · other names (Tibetan)
རྫོང་སར་མཁན་རབས་༠༡་ · other names (Tibetan)
mkhan po gzhan dga' · other names (Wylie)
rgya kong mkhan chen gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba · other names (Wylie)
gzhan phan byams pa'i go cha · other names (Wylie)
mkhas mchog gzhan phan snang ba · other names (Wylie)
shrI sing ha bshad grwa (Dzogchen Monastery) · primary professional affiliation
rdzong sar khams bye grwa tshang · other professional affiliation
rgyal sras gzhan phan mtha' yas · emanation of
nil · teacher
nil · student
śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt. श्रावक Tib. ཉན་ཐོས། Ch. 聲聞
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།
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་
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་
Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
