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<noinclude><span class=TibUni16>[[མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དཔལ།]]</span></noinclude><br><noinclude>[[mkhan po kun dpal]]</noinclude><br>
<noinclude>[[Khenpo Kunzang Palden]]</noinclude><br>
<noinclude>[[མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན།]]</noinclude><br>
<noinclude>[[mkhan po kun bzang dpal ldan]]</noinclude><br>
===Short Biography===
[[Image:kunpal.jpeg|frame|Gegong Khenchen Kunzang Palden; Khenpo Kunpal]]
'''Khenpo Kunzang Palden''' (mkhan po kun bzang dpal ldan c.1872-1943) was born in Dzachukha in East Tibet. He was one of [[Patrul Rinpoche]]'s main students and his principal biographer, and was also an important student of [[Mipham Rinpoche]] and the author of a famous commentary to his [[Beacon of Certainty]] (nges shes sgron me). He is best known however for his commentary to the [[Bodhicharyavatara]], based almost entirely on the teachings he received from Patrul Rinpoche. He was the first khenpo appointed to the shedra of [[Kathok Monastery]], a position he passed on to [[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], aka Khenpo Ngakchung.<br>
===Literary Works===
*[[nges shes rin po che'i sgron me'i tshig gi don gsal ba'i 'grel chung blo gros snang ba'i sgo 'byed]]<br>

===Main Teachers===
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]]<br>
*[[Mipham Rinpoche]]<br>
*[[Orgyen Tenzin Norbu]]<br>

===Main Students===
*[[Böpa Tulku]] [[Dongak Tenpei Nyima]]
*[[Khenpo Thubga]]<br>
*[[Khenpo Nuden]]
*[[Khenpo Ngagchung]]
*[[Troshul Khenpo Jampal Dorje]]<br>

===Main Lineages===
*[[Fill in the blanks]]<br>

===Alternate Names & Spellings===
*Kathok Khenchen Kunzang Palden (ka thog mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan)
*Kunzang Chokyi Drakpa (kun bzang chos kyi grags pa)
*Khenpo Kunzang Palden ([[mkhan po kun bzang dpal ldan]] chos grags)

===Other Reference Sources===
1| c.1870-c.1940 - Khenpo Kunzang Palden, a disciple of Paltrul Rinpoche [RY] 
2| The Great [[Kathok]] Khenpo Kunzang Palden - (1870-1940), one of the most important heart-disciple of Dza [[Paltrul Rinpoche]]. [[Khenpo Kunpal]] as he is most often known, acted as attendant to Dza Paltrul for more than 20 years and is a every important author within the Ngagyur Nyingma.[BL]

===Internal Links===
*[[Kathok Monastery]]<br>

===External Links===
*[http://www.tbrc.org/cgi-bin/tbrcdatx?do=so&resource=P6962 TBRC profile]
*[http://www.kunpal.com/ Andreas Kretschmar's Translation of the first five chapters of Khenpo Kunpal's Bodhicharyavatara commentary]

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