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'''Minling Lochen Dharmashri''' [[smin gling lo chen dharma shrI]] (1654 - 1717)
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===Short Biography===
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'''Khenpo Shenga''', Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa (Tib: mkhan po gzhan dga'; gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba) 1871-1927
One of the great scholars of the [[Nyingma School]] and brother of the great [[terton]] [[Terdak Lingpa]], founder of [[Mindrolling Monastery]].
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[[Image:shenga.jpg|frame|The Great Khenpo Shenga]]
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The renowned scholar and adept Khenpo Shenga was the reincarnation of Gyalsé Shenpen Thayé, an influential Nyingma master of the early 19th century associated with the Longchen Nyingthik teachings and Dzogchen monastery. His predecessor's works greatly impacted Nyingma study and practice. Shenpen Thayé founded Dzogchen Monastery's Sri Singha Monastic College, a famed center of Nyingma scholarship. He helped establish an emphasis on monastic discipline within the Nyingma, which has historically been less grounded in monasticism than Tibet's other three lineages. He also gathered the Kama teachings, the Nyingma lineage's canonical scriptures, into one collection. Khenpo Shenga followed in his predecessor's footsteps by further strengthening the Nyingmapa traditions of scholarship and monastic discipline.
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Khenpo Shenga’s main achievement was the large body of commentarial literature he composed. His most important works concern the Thirteen Great Treatises, texts composed by Indian Buddhist masters concerning core Buddhist topics, from the Vinaya to Madhyamaka. These treatises comprise the main curriculum of Nyingma monastic colleges. Khenpo Shenga's commentaries on these texts remain amongst the most widely studied texts in these institutions.
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འཕགས་ཡུལ་མཁས་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཟླ་བ་གྲགས། །
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In the noble land of India you were the learned mighty Lord Chandrakirti<br>
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གངས་ལྗོངས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་དངོས་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རྗེ། །
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In the snowy land of Tibet you were the Omniscient Lord, Manjushri manifested in person,<br>
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དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཡང་སྤྲུལ་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས། །
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Your compassion again manifested as a spiritual guide, inseparable from them,<br>
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གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། །།
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Shenphen Chökyi Nangwa (Khenpo Shenga), to you I pray!<br>
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===Literary Works===
 
===Literary Works===
See [[Writings of Lochen Dharmashri]]<br>
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See [[Writings of Khenpo Shenga]]<br>
 
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http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Khenpo_Shenga&action=edit
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===Main Teachers===
 
===Main Teachers===
*[[Terdak Lingpa]]<br>
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*[[Onpo Tenzin Norbu]]<br>
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*[[Khenpo Pema Vajra]]<br>
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*[[Jamyang Loter Wangpo]]<br>
  
 
===Main Students===
 
===Main Students===
*[[Do Karwa Tsering Wanggyal]] ([[mdo mkhar ba tshe ring dbang rgyal]])<br>
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*[[Tai Situ Pema Wangchok Gyalpo]]<br>
*[[Ngagwang Kunzang Dorje]] ([[ngag dbang kun bzang rdo rje]])<br>
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*[[Khenpo Jamgyal]]<br>
*[[Rinchen Namgyal]] ([[rin chen rnam rgyal]])
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*[[Khenpo Lhagyal]]<br>
*[[Migyur Paldron]] ([[mi 'gyur dpal sgron]])<br>
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*[[Khenpo Thubga]]<br>
*[[Kunga Tashi]] ([[kun dga' bkra shis]])<br>
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*[[Khenpo Tsewang Rigdzin]]<br>
*[[Pema Wangjor]] ([[padma dbang 'byor]])<br>
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*[[Khenpo Yonten Gonpo]]<br>
*[[Gyalse Senge]] ([[rgyal sras sengge]])<br>
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*[[Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen]]
*[[Ngagwang Sangye Palzang]] ([[ngag dbang sangs rgyas dpal bzang]])
 
*[[Orgyen Chokyi Dragpa]] ([[o rgyan chos kyi grags pa]])
 
  
 
===Main Lineages===
 
===Main Lineages===
*[[Mindrolling]]<br>
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*[[Longchen Nyingthig]]<br>
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*[[Khandro Nyingthig]]
  
 
===Alternate Names & Spellings===
 
===Alternate Names & Spellings===
*[[Minling Lochen Dharma Shri]]<br>
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*[[Fill in the blanks]]<br>
*[[dharma shrI]]
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*[[smin gling lo chen dharma shrI]]
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===Other Reference Sources===
*[[chos dpal rgya mtsho, smin gling lo chen]]
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*[[Fill in the blanks]]<br>
*[[bstan 'dzin 'jam dbyangs]]
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*[[ngag dbang chos dpal rgya mtsho]]
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===Internal Links===
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*[[Dzogchen Monastery]]<br>
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*[[Dzongsar Shedra]]<br>
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*[[Palpung Monastery]]<br>
  
 
===External Links===
 
===External Links===
*[http://www.mindrolling.com/history/LochenDharmashri.cfm Mindrolling Website]
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*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id82.html Khenpo Shenga Series on Lotsawa House]
*[http://tbrc.org/kb/tbrc-detail.xq;jsessionid=FC10F74DEF80AC8762DC5A89261B7454?RID=P667 TBRC link]
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*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id83.html Biography of Khenpo Shenga on Lotsawa House]
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*[http://www.tbrc.org/cgi-bin/tbrcdatx?do=so&resource=P699 TBRC on Khenpo Shenga]
  
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[[Category:kha]]
 
[[Category:Buddhist Masters]]
 
[[Category:Buddhist Masters]]
 
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]]
 
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]]
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[[Category:Longchen Nyingthig]]

Revision as of 15:22, 28 November 2008

Short Biography[edit]

Khenpo Shenga, Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa (Tib: mkhan po gzhan dga'; gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba) 1871-1927

The Great Khenpo Shenga

The renowned scholar and adept Khenpo Shenga was the reincarnation of Gyalsé Shenpen Thayé, an influential Nyingma master of the early 19th century associated with the Longchen Nyingthik teachings and Dzogchen monastery. His predecessor's works greatly impacted Nyingma study and practice. Shenpen Thayé founded Dzogchen Monastery's Sri Singha Monastic College, a famed center of Nyingma scholarship. He helped establish an emphasis on monastic discipline within the Nyingma, which has historically been less grounded in monasticism than Tibet's other three lineages. He also gathered the Kama teachings, the Nyingma lineage's canonical scriptures, into one collection. Khenpo Shenga followed in his predecessor's footsteps by further strengthening the Nyingmapa traditions of scholarship and monastic discipline.

Khenpo Shenga’s main achievement was the large body of commentarial literature he composed. His most important works concern the Thirteen Great Treatises, texts composed by Indian Buddhist masters concerning core Buddhist topics, from the Vinaya to Madhyamaka. These treatises comprise the main curriculum of Nyingma monastic colleges. Khenpo Shenga's commentaries on these texts remain amongst the most widely studied texts in these institutions.


འཕགས་ཡུལ་མཁས་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཟླ་བ་གྲགས། ། In the noble land of India you were the learned mighty Lord Chandrakirti
གངས་ལྗོངས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་དངོས་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རྗེ། ། In the snowy land of Tibet you were the Omniscient Lord, Manjushri manifested in person,
དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཡང་སྤྲུལ་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས། ། Your compassion again manifested as a spiritual guide, inseparable from them,
གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། །། Shenphen Chökyi Nangwa (Khenpo Shenga), to you I pray!


Literary Works[edit]

See Writings of Khenpo Shenga
http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php?title=Khenpo_Shenga&action=edit Edit

Main Teachers[edit]

Main Students[edit]

Main Lineages[edit]

Alternate Names & Spellings[edit]

Other Reference Sources[edit]

Internal Links[edit]

External Links[edit]