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'''Khenpo Yönga''' aka '''Khenchen Yönten Gyatso''' (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''yon tan rgya mtsho'') (19th-20th C.) was a personal student of [[Patrul Rinpoche]] and [[Orgyen Tendzin Norbu]]. He belonged to [[Gemang Monastery]], a branch of [[Dzogchen Monastery]], and studied at Dzogchen and [[Shechen]] monasteries. He wrote a very popular two-part commentary on Rigdzin [[Jikme Lingpa]]'s ''[[Treasury of Precious Qualities]]'', called '' | '''Khenpo Yönga''' aka '''Khenchen Yönten Gyatso''' (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''yon tan rgya mtsho'') (19th-20th C.) was a personal student of [[Patrul Rinpoche]] and [[Orgyen Tendzin Norbu]]. He belonged to [[Gemang Monastery]], a branch of [[Dzogchen Monastery]], and studied at Dzogchen and [[Shechen]] monasteries. | ||
He wrote a very popular two-part commentary on Rigdzin [[Jikme Lingpa]]'s ''[[Treasury of Precious Qualities]]'', called ''Lamp of Moonlight'' and ''Rays of Sunlight'', or simply ''Great Commentary'' (Wyl. ''zla ba’i ’sgron me''). He also wrote an important commentary to [[Ngari Panchen]]'s ''[[Ascertainment of the Three Types of Vows]]'', the ''Awareness Holders’ Entrance''. | |||
Among his students were Changma [[Khenchen Thubten Chöpel]] (the teacher of [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] and [[Khenpo Jikmé Phuntsok]]) and [[Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin]] of Washul Mewa (who attained the [[rainbow body]]). | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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*{{TBRC|P6961|TBRC Profile}} | *{{TBRC|P6961|TBRC Profile}} | ||
*{{LH|tibetan-masters/ | *{{LH|tibetan-masters/khenpo-yonten-gyatso/ground-path-fruition-commentary|Commentary on Jikme Lingpa's Prayer of the Ground, Path and Fruition}} | ||
*[https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:WA23221?tabs=bdr:MW23221,bdr:W23221 Commentary on Ascertainment of the Three Types of Vows: The Branch Paths of The Self-Nature Great Perfection] | |||
[[Category:Historical Masters]] | [[Category:Historical Masters]] | ||
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | [[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:57, 13 March 2022
Khenpo Yönga aka Khenchen Yönten Gyatso (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. yon tan rgya mtsho) (19th-20th C.) was a personal student of Patrul Rinpoche and Orgyen Tendzin Norbu. He belonged to Gemang Monastery, a branch of Dzogchen Monastery, and studied at Dzogchen and Shechen monasteries.
He wrote a very popular two-part commentary on Rigdzin Jikme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities, called Lamp of Moonlight and Rays of Sunlight, or simply Great Commentary (Wyl. zla ba’i ’sgron me). He also wrote an important commentary to Ngari Panchen's Ascertainment of the Three Types of Vows, the Awareness Holders’ Entrance.
Among his students were Changma Khenchen Thubten Chöpel (the teacher of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Khenpo Jikmé Phuntsok) and Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin of Washul Mewa (who attained the rainbow body).
Further Reading
- Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage, Padma Publications, 2005, pages 469-471.
