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-== Brief Bio ==
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-[[Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers]]
-Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoché was born in Central Tibet in 1921 from a patrilineal descent of Ngakpas. He studied the [[sutras]] and [[tantras]] from 1937 to 1949. After that, and until 1955, he mainly practiced in closed retreat. In 1959 he fled Tibet for India where he first spent two years on retreat. Then he went to Japan to teach for 10 years at the request of [[His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoché]]. Back in India he became in charge of the Library of Tibetan Work and Archive in Dharamsala. He is the author of many volume of teachings including the outstanding ''Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism'' in 12 vol.
-Rinpoché now lives at his monastery in Sundarijal in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, which he established at the request of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoché.
-== Literary Works ==
-'''In Tibetan'''
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-The Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism in 12 vol.
-An extra 13th vol. based on Dunhuang caves discovery called ''An early history of Tibet edited from the findings unearthed at the Dunhuang caves''
-An autobiography
-Proverbs and Lyric Poems
-'''In English'''
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-''Tantric Practice Practice in Nyingma'' on the Longchen Nyintik Ngöndro translated by Jeffrey Hopkins