ku nu bla ma bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan

Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen
ཀུ་ནུ་བླ་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་མཚན།

Khabje Khunu Rinpoche, Tenzin Gyaltsen

Short biography

'Negi Lama, Khunu Tenzin Gyaltsen Rinpoche(b. 1894 d. 1977)

Final Year

In the winter of 1975-76 Khunu Rinpoche taught Jigme Lingpa's Tri Yeshe Lama at Tso Pema at the request of Dzigar Lama Wangdor and others. He then went to Manikaren in the Parvati valley of Kullu district where he taught Patrul Rinpoche's commentary on Garab Dorje's Three Words that Strike the Vital Point (tshig gsum gnad brdeg) twice - once in Tibetan and once in Kinnauri language. From Manikaren Rinpoche went to Drolma Lhakhang at Buntar in the Kullu Valley. At the request of Khandro Ugyen Chodron (wife of the late Apho Rinpoche),Khenchen Thupten Ozer, and others Khunu Rinpoche then went to Manali where he again gave teaching and instructions on Jigme Lingpa's Tri Yeshe Lama. At Apho Rinpoche's labrang he gave teaching and instructions on Kunkhyen Padma Karpo's Ngondro Dzintri, Chagchen Dzintri, Chodruk Dzintri, the Ro Nyom Khor Druk cycle and Saraha's Dohas. From Manali Kunnu Rinpoche journeyed to Kartang Gonpa in the Lahul valley where he gave complete teachings onGampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation and other texts.

Khunu Rinpoche passed away at Shashul Monastery in the Lahaul & Spiti district of Himachel Pradesh on February 23rd, 1977 while teaching the final page of Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation.

Literary Works

• dag yig ngag sgron gyi rtsa ba dang de'i 'grel pa - a commentary on Palkhang Lotsawa's dag yig ngag sgron
• byang chub sems kyi bstod pa rin chen sgron ma) (translated as "Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea")
  
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Khabje Khunu Rinpoche, Tenzin Gyaltsen

Main Teachers

• Kathok Situ Chokyi Gyatso
• Khenpo Shenga
• Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
• Khenpo Jamyang Gyaltsen
• Minyak Kunzang Sonam
• Khenpo Kunpal
• Sonam Gyaltsen
  

Main Students

• HH the 14th Dalai Lama
• Drikung Khandro
• Khenchen Thupten Ozer
• Dzigar Lama Wangdor
• Karma Trinley Rinpoche
• Khenpo Konchog Monlam
• Dilgo Khyenste Rinpoche
• Dezhung Rinpoche
• Lama Thupten Yeshe/Lama Yeshe
• Zopa Rinpoche/Lama Zopa Rinpoche
  

Main Lineages

Nyingma

• Longchen Nyingtik
  
• Kathok
  
• Dza Patrul's Lineage of Bodhicharyavatara
  

Kagyu

• Drukpa Kagyu
  

• • Kham (Eastern Tibet) Drukpa Lineage
    
  • Shakya Shri's Drukpa Lineage
    
  • Shouthern Drukpa Lineage
    

• Drigung Kagyu
  

• • Dzogchen Drigung Yangzab Terma
    
  • Mahamudra Drigung Lineage
    

• Karma Kagyu
  

Gelug

• Tashi Lhunpo
  
• Drepung
  
• Ganden
  
• Sera
  

Alternate Names & Spellings

• Tenzin Gyaltsen (bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan)
  
• Khunu Rinpoche(khu nu rin po che)
  
• Khunu Lama (ku nu bla ma)
  
• Negi Lama (ne gi bla ma)
  
• Negi Rinpoche (ne gi rin po che)
  

Other Reference Sources

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Internal Links

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External Links

TBRC P740

• The Bio-page on Rangjung Yeshe[1]
• Sunlight Blessings that Cure the Longing of Remembrance: A Biography of the Omniscient Khunu Mahāsattva, Tenzin Gyeltsen (Khunu Lama Rinpoche), by Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche, translated from Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos and Mike Dickman
• The One-Page Prayer: A Prayer to Khunu Lama Rinpoche Composed by Khunu Lama Rinpoche Himself, Translated from Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos