Khenpo Gangshar
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Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo (Tib. མཁན་པོ་གང་ཤར་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. mkhan po gang shar dbang po) (b. 1925) — a renowned master of the 'crazy wisdom' approach, who was connected with Shechen Monastery. He was the root teacher of both Chögyam Trungpa and Thrangu Rinpoche, and also one of Dezhung Rinpoche's teachers.
For a while it was thought that he died in prison between 1958 and 1961, but it has also been reported that he in fact survived 22 years of imprisonment, and passed away in 1980/1, before any of his former students could contact him.
Writings & Publications
Tibetan
English
Khenpo Gangshar Series on Lotsawa House, including Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: Instructions to Guide You on the Profound Path and Vomiting Gold[1]- Khenchen Thrangu, Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar, with commentary by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2011)
Notes
- ↑ You can watch Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche teaching on Vomiting Gold on Dharma Sun. Look in the Buddhist Advice section (login required).
Further Reading about Khenpo Gangshar
- Chögyam Trungpa, Born in Tibet (George Allen & Unwin, 1966)
- David Jackson, Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003)
