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'''Khenpo Shenga''', Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa (Tib: mkhan po gzhan dga'; gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba) 1871-1927 | |||
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. | |||
===Literary Works=== | ===Literary Works=== | ||
See [[Writings of | See [[Writings of Khenpo Shenga]]<br> | ||
===Main Teachers=== | ===Main Teachers=== | ||
*[[ | *[[Onpo Tenzin Norbu]]<br> | ||
*[[Khenpo Pema Vajra]]<br> | |||
*[[Jamyang Loter Wangpo]]<br> | |||
===Main Students=== | ===Main Students=== | ||
*[[ | *[[Tai Situ Pema Wangchok Gyalpo]]<br> | ||
*[[Khenpo Lhagyal]]<br> | |||
*[[Pathur Khenpo Thubten Chöpel]]<br> | |||
*[[Khenpo Tsewang Rigdzin]]<br> | |||
===Main Lineages=== | ===Main Lineages=== | ||
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===Internal Links=== | ===Internal Links=== | ||
* | *[[Dzogchen Monastery]]<br> | ||
*[[Dzongsar Shedra]]<br> | |||
*[[Palpung Monastery]]<br> | |||
===External Links=== | ===External Links=== | ||
*[http://www.tbrc.org | *[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id82.html Khenpo Shenga Series on Lotsawa House] | ||
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id83.html Biography of Khenpo Shenga on Lotsawa House] | |||
*[http://www.tbrc.org/cgi-bin/tbrcdatx?do=so&resource=P699 TBRC on Khenpo Shenga] | |||
[[Category:Buddhist Masters]] | [[Category:Buddhist Masters]] | ||
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | [[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | ||
Revision as of 15:21, 27 April 2006
Khenpo Shenga, Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa (Tib: mkhan po gzhan dga'; gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba) 1871-1927
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.