Kun bzang dpal ldan

ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་
Kunzang Palden (1862 - 1943) Born in: dge rtse gong (khams rdza chu kha) <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Water Dog, 14^th sexagenary cycle. <br>

Khenchen Kunzang Pelden was a Nyingma scholar and teacher associated with Katok Monastery. A student of a number of distinguished Nyingma teachers including Dza Patrul and Ju Mipam, he was an important Longchen Nyingtik lineage holder. He composed a famous commentary to the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra (The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech), and served Katok Monastery as the first abbot of its study center, Shedrub Norbu Lhunpo, for three years. Following retirement he returned to his hometown and taught until his death in 1944.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	kun bzang dpal ldan	ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན
Other Names	mkhan po kun dpal mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan thub bstan chos kyi grags pa mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan	མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དཔལ་ མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Nyingma
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	Dpal sprul 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po mi pham rgya mtsho Dodrupchen, 3rd o rgyan bstan 'dzin nor bu gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba pad+ma badz+ra dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho
Students	Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th a 'dzom rgyal sras 'gyur med rdo rje ngag dbang dpal bzang bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros khu nu bla ma bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6962
Treasury of Lives	http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Kunzang-Pelden/9593
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