Dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho

དགེ་མང་མཁན་ཆེན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Gemang Khenchen Yöntan Gyatso (b. 19th century - ) Born in: dge mang <br>

Khenpo Yönga aka Khenchen Yönten Gyatso (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. yon tan rgya mtsho) (19th-20th C.) was a personal student of Patrul Rinpoche and Orgyen Tendzin Norbu. He belonged to Gemang Monastery, a branch of Dzogchen Monastery, and studied at Dzogchen and Shechen monasteries. He wrote a very popular two-part commentary on Rigdzin Jikme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities, called Lamp of Moonlight and Rays of Sunlight. Among his students were Changma Khenchen Thubten Chöpel (the teacher of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Khenpo Jikmé Phuntsok) and Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin of Washul Mewa (who attained the rainbow body). (Source: Rigpawiki)

All Names

Main Wylie Name	dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho	དགེ་མང་མཁན་ཆེན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ
Other Names	mkhan po yon rgya Khenpo Yöngya	མཁན་པོ་ཡོན་རྒྱ་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Nyingma
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	Dpal sprul rin po che O rgyan bstan 'dzin nor bu Rgyal sras gzhan phan mtha' yas Mi pham rgya mtsho pad+ma badz+ra
Students	Kun bzang dpal ldan

Links

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