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[[Image:Khenpo Ngakchung.JPG|frame|'''Khenpo Ngawang Palzang''']]
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'''Khenpo Ngawang Palzang''' ([[Wyl.]] ''mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang'') aka Khenpo Ngakchung (1879-1941) — one of the most influential [[Dzogchen]] masters of recent times.
'''Khenpo Ngawang Palzang''' (Tib. མཁན་པོ་ངག་དབང་དཔལ་བཟང་, [[Wyl.]] ''mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang'') aka '''Khenpo Ngakchung''' (1879-1941) was one of the most important and influential [[Dzogchen]] masters of recent times. He is regarded as an emanation of [[Vimalamitra]], who foretold that he would appear once every hundred years.


==Biography==
==Biography==
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He took novice ordination in 1893 and full ordination in 1898. He remained with Nyoshul Lungtok until 1900 when he went to [[Dzogchen Monastery]] in order to study at the shedra. This was the time that [[Mipham Rinpoche]] was in residence.  
He took novice ordination in 1893 and full ordination in 1898. He remained with Nyoshul Lungtok until 1900 when he went to [[Dzogchen Monastery]] in order to study at the shedra. This was the time that [[Mipham Rinpoche]] was in residence.  


===His Students===
==His Writings==
His main four heart sons ('the four great pillars') were the [[Second Drubwang Pema Norbu]], Choktrul Gyurme Dorje, [[Arik Rinpoche]] and [[Shedrup Tenpé Nyima]] (the reincarnation of his principal master). Some of his other main students are [[Chatral Sangye Dorje]], [[Khenpo Munsel]] and [[Polu Khenpo]].
*''[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'' (Tib. ཀུན་བཟང་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་གི་ཟིན་བྲིས་, ''Kunzang Lama’i Shyalung Zindri'' or ''[[Zindri]]'' for short) is a priceless treasure of explanation, clarification and practical advice from the heart of the great oral lineage of [[Dzogchen]]. It was handed down by [[Patrul Rinpoche]] to his disciple [[Nyoshul Lungtok Tenpé Nyima]], who then passed it on to Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, who wrote down this oral instruction.
*[http://www.shambhala.com/wondrous-dance-of-illusion.html ''Wondrous Dance of Illusion''], The Autobiography of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang translated by Heidi L. Nevin, J. Jakob Leschly, Shambala Publications, 2014.


===His Writings===
==Whispered Transmission (Nyengyu)==
Among his works is ''Kunzang Lama’i Shyalung Zindri'' [Tib.] (or ''[[Zindri]]'' for short), ''A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher''. The Zindri is a priceless treasure of explanation, clarification and practical advice from the heart of the great oral lineage of [[Dzogchen]]. It was handed down by [[Patrul Rinpoche]] to his disciple Lungtok Tenpé Nyima ([[Nyoshul Lungtok]]), who then passed it on to Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, who wrote down this oral instruction.
*'''The Words of Tenpé Nyima: Notes on the Ground of Trekchö: The Concentrated Essence Distilled from the River of the Whispered Transmission''' (Tib. ''Trekchö Zindri'' or ''Tenpe Nyima Shyalung'') (གཞི་ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་སྐབས་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཆུ་བོའི་བཅུད་འདུས་) (180pg)
*'''Perpetual Wisdom Practice: The Secret Heart-Sealed Upadesha, Notes on Inner Application''' (Tib. ''Tukdam Narma'') (ཐུགས་དམ་ནར་མ་ནང་གི་ཉམས་བཞེས་ཀྱི་ཡིག་ཆུང་གསང་བ་སྙིང་གི་རྒྱ་ཅན་གྱི་ཨུ་པ་དེ་ཤ་) (158pg)
*'''Guide to the Whispered Transmission''' (སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཟིན་བྲིས་) (trekchö, 8pg)
*'''Nyima Nangwa''' (Tib. ''Nyiké Yang Yik'') (རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བླ་མ་ཡང་ཏིག་ལས་གཉིས་ཀའི་ཡང་ཡིག་ནམ་མཁའ་ཀློང་ཆེན་གྱི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཉི་མའི་སྣང་བ) (both trekchö and tögal, 320pg)
*'''Kunzang Gonggyen''' (ཤིན་ཏུ་གསང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ཐོད་རྒལ་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་ཡིག་མེད་ཨུ་པ་དེ་ཤ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཏི་ལ་ཀ་) (tögal, 106pg)
*'''Kunzang Tuk Kyi Tikka: An Overview of the Yeshe Lama''' (རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མའི་སྤྱི་དོན་སྙིང་ཐིག་མ་བུའི་ལྡེ་མིག་ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཊིཀྐ་) (756pg)
*'''Mar Tri''' (སྔ་འགྱུར་རིག་འཛིན་རྒྱུད་པའི་ཞལ་ལུང་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་གདམས་པའི་ཆུ་བོ་ལྐོག་ཡིག་དམར་ཁྲིད་དུ་བཏབ་པ་ཐེག་མཆོག་སེང་གེའི་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་) (44pg)
*'''Key to Tögal''' (ཐོད་རྒལ་གནད་ཀྱི་ལྡེའུ་མིག་) (106pg)
*'''Ngözhi Zindri''' (ཀུན་མཁྱེན་བླ་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ངག་གི་དབང་པོའི་ཞལ་གསུང་མའི་དངོས་གཞིའི་ཟིན་བྲིས།) (64pg)
*'''A Stainless Crystal Mirror: A Commentary on the Praṇa-Based Perfection Stage of Bliss and Emptiness, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse''' (ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་གི་ཐིག་ལེའི་བདེ་སྟོང་རླུང་གི་རྫོགས་རིམ་གྱི་གེགས་སེལ་གྱི་འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་རིག་འཛིན་བརྒྱུད་པའི་ཕྱག་བཞེས་དྲི་མེད་ཤེལ་གྱི་མེ་ལོང་)
 
==His Students==
His main four heart sons ('the four great pillars') were
*the [[Second Drubwang Pema Norbu]],
*Choktrul Gyurme Dorje,
*[[Arik Rinpoche]] and
*[[Shedrup Tenpé Nyima]] (the reincarnation of his principal master).
Some of his other main students are [[Chatral Sangye Dorje]], [[Khenpo Munsel]], [[Polu Khenpo]] and [[Gojo Orgyen Chemchok]].


==His Incarnations==
==His Incarnations==
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==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
*[[Nyoshul Khenpo]], ''A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage'', Padma Publications, 2005, pp.247-256
*Smith, E. Gene, 'The Autobiography of the Rnying ma pa Visionary Mkhan po Ngag dbang dpal bzang and his Spiritual Heritage' in ''Among Tibetan Texts'', Wisdom, 2001
*Smith, E. Gene, 'The Autobiography of the Rnying ma pa Visionary Mkhan po Ngag dbang dpal bzang and his Spiritual Heritage' in ''Among Tibetan Texts'', Wisdom, 2001
*Tulku Thondup, ''Masters of Meditation and Miracles'', Shambhala, 1996
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''Masters of Meditation and Miracles'', edited by Harold Talbott, Boston: Shambhala, 1996, pp.266-274


==Internal Links==
==Internal Links==
*[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]
*[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]
*[[Katok Monastery]]
*[[Katok Monastery]]
*[[Khenpo Ngakchung's Collected Works Volume 1]]
*[[Khenpo Ngakchung's Collected Works Volume 2]]
*[[Khenpo Ngakchung's Collected Works Volume 3]]
*[[Khenpo Ngakchung's Collected Works Volume 4]]
*[[Khenpo Ngakchung's Collected Works Volume 5]]
*[[Khenpo Ngakchung's Collected Works Volumes 6 and 7]]
*[[Khenpo Ngakchung's Collected Works Volumes 8 and 9]]
==External Links==
*{{TBRC|P724|TBRC Profile}}
*[https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Khenpo-Ngawang-Pelzang/9895 Biography at Treasury of Lives]


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Latest revision as of 06:03, 17 November 2023

Khenpo Ngawang Palzang

Khenpo Ngawang Palzang (Tib. མཁན་པོ་ངག་དབང་དཔལ་བཟང་, Wyl. mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang) aka Khenpo Ngakchung (1879-1941) was one of the most important and influential Dzogchen masters of recent times. He is regarded as an emanation of Vimalamitra, who foretold that he would appear once every hundred years.

Biography

He was born on the tenth day of the tenth month of the Earth Hare year (1879). His father was Namgyal of the Nyoshul clan, and his mother was Pema Tso. At the age of seven he learned to read and write from his uncle. At eight, he began receiving empowerments and teachings. His principal teacher was Nyoshul Lungtok, and his other teachers included Atop Rinpoche, Tertön Ngawang Tendzin, Tertön Sogyal, Khenpo Shenga, Katok Situ Chökyi Gyatso, Khenpo Kunpal, and the Fifth Dzogchen Rinpoche.

He took novice ordination in 1893 and full ordination in 1898. He remained with Nyoshul Lungtok until 1900 when he went to Dzogchen Monastery in order to study at the shedra. This was the time that Mipham Rinpoche was in residence.

His Writings

  • A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher (Tib. ཀུན་བཟང་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་གི་ཟིན་བྲིས་, Kunzang Lama’i Shyalung Zindri or Zindri for short) is a priceless treasure of explanation, clarification and practical advice from the heart of the great oral lineage of Dzogchen. It was handed down by Patrul Rinpoche to his disciple Nyoshul Lungtok Tenpé Nyima, who then passed it on to Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, who wrote down this oral instruction.
  • Wondrous Dance of Illusion, The Autobiography of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang translated by Heidi L. Nevin, J. Jakob Leschly, Shambala Publications, 2014.

Whispered Transmission (Nyengyu)

  • The Words of Tenpé Nyima: Notes on the Ground of Trekchö: The Concentrated Essence Distilled from the River of the Whispered Transmission (Tib. Trekchö Zindri or Tenpe Nyima Shyalung) (གཞི་ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་སྐབས་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཆུ་བོའི་བཅུད་འདུས་) (180pg)
  • Perpetual Wisdom Practice: The Secret Heart-Sealed Upadesha, Notes on Inner Application (Tib. Tukdam Narma) (ཐུགས་དམ་ནར་མ་ནང་གི་ཉམས་བཞེས་ཀྱི་ཡིག་ཆུང་གསང་བ་སྙིང་གི་རྒྱ་ཅན་གྱི་ཨུ་པ་དེ་ཤ་) (158pg)
  • Guide to the Whispered Transmission (སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཟིན་བྲིས་) (trekchö, 8pg)
  • Nyima Nangwa (Tib. Nyiké Yang Yik) (རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བླ་མ་ཡང་ཏིག་ལས་གཉིས་ཀའི་ཡང་ཡིག་ནམ་མཁའ་ཀློང་ཆེན་གྱི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཉི་མའི་སྣང་བ) (both trekchö and tögal, 320pg)
  • Kunzang Gonggyen (ཤིན་ཏུ་གསང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ཐོད་རྒལ་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་ཡིག་མེད་ཨུ་པ་དེ་ཤ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཏི་ལ་ཀ་) (tögal, 106pg)
  • Kunzang Tuk Kyi Tikka: An Overview of the Yeshe Lama (རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མའི་སྤྱི་དོན་སྙིང་ཐིག་མ་བུའི་ལྡེ་མིག་ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཊིཀྐ་) (756pg)
  • Mar Tri (སྔ་འགྱུར་རིག་འཛིན་རྒྱུད་པའི་ཞལ་ལུང་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་གདམས་པའི་ཆུ་བོ་ལྐོག་ཡིག་དམར་ཁྲིད་དུ་བཏབ་པ་ཐེག་མཆོག་སེང་གེའི་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་) (44pg)
  • Key to Tögal (ཐོད་རྒལ་གནད་ཀྱི་ལྡེའུ་མིག་) (106pg)
  • Ngözhi Zindri (ཀུན་མཁྱེན་བླ་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ངག་གི་དབང་པོའི་ཞལ་གསུང་མའི་དངོས་གཞིའི་ཟིན་བྲིས།) (64pg)
  • A Stainless Crystal Mirror: A Commentary on the Praṇa-Based Perfection Stage of Bliss and Emptiness, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་གི་ཐིག་ལེའི་བདེ་སྟོང་རླུང་གི་རྫོགས་རིམ་གྱི་གེགས་སེལ་གྱི་འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་རིག་འཛིན་བརྒྱུད་པའི་ཕྱག་བཞེས་དྲི་མེད་ཤེལ་གྱི་མེ་ལོང་)

His Students

His main four heart sons ('the four great pillars') were

Some of his other main students are Chatral Sangye Dorje, Khenpo Munsel, Polu Khenpo and Gojo Orgyen Chemchok.

His Incarnations

Further Reading

  • Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage, Padma Publications, 2005, pp.247-256
  • Smith, E. Gene, 'The Autobiography of the Rnying ma pa Visionary Mkhan po Ngag dbang dpal bzang and his Spiritual Heritage' in Among Tibetan Texts, Wisdom, 2001
  • Tulku Thondup, Masters of Meditation and Miracles, edited by Harold Talbott, Boston: Shambhala, 1996, pp.266-274

Internal Links

External Links

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