Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang
Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang (T. mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang མཁན་པོ་ངག་དབང་དཔལ་བཟང་)[1] (1879-1941), aka Khenpo Ngakchung (mkhan po ngag chung), was an influential Dzogchen master who is considered to have been an emanation of Vimalamitra.[2][3][4]
His root teacher was Nyoshul Lungtok Tenpai Nyima (1829–1901), who spent twenty-eight years constantly in the company of the great Dzogchen master Patrul Rinpoche, receiving from him all the Nyingtik teachings, practicing them under his guidance, and attaining full realization of Dzogchen.[2]
Khenpo Ngakchung met his teacher Lungtok Tenpai Nyima when he was a small boy, and "from his early teens he accompanied Lungtok Tenpai Nyima constantly, serving him, listening to his teachings, and, in his spare time, practicing."[2] After his root teacher passed away, Khenpo Ngakchung continued to study and practice and received further teachings from other great teachers.[2]
- At the age of thirty he was appointed to teach at Kathog Monastery’s newly opened shedra, at first as assistant to Khenpo Kunpel (author of an important commentary that synthesizes Patrul Rinpoche’s teachings on the Bodhicharyavatara), and later as the shedra’s khenpo. He stayed there for the next thirteen years, teaching, giving empowerments, and ordaining thousands of monks, as well as receiving many important transmissions.[2]
Khenpo Ngakchung is the author of the book The Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher, an explanation Patrul Rinpoche's The Words of My Perfect Teacher.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Also spelled "Khenpo Ngawang Palzang".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang 2011, Translators Introduction.
- ↑ Tulku Thondup 1999, pp. 266–274.
- ↑ Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche 2005, pp. 247–256.
Sources
Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang (2011), A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala- Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche (2005), A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage, Padma Publishing
- Tulku Thondup (1999), Masters of Meditation and Miracles, Boston: Shambhala
Further reading
- Rinpoche, Chatral. Compassionate Action. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2007. Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Zach Larson.
- 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
External links
Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, Treasury of Lives
Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, Wikipedia- A Short Biography of Kathog Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, Shambala Publications
