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Indian Astrology ([[skar rtsis]])
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*Indian astrology refers to the system of practical astology derived from the Abridged Tantra of the Wheel of Time ([[Laghukālacakratantra]]), in which calculations are made concerning exact planetary positions ([[gza' dag]]), calendar dates ([[tshes grangs]]), lunar constellations ([[zla skar]]), the conjunctions of the lunar constellations with the exact solar position ([[sbyor ba]]), and the so-called eleven functionary conjunctions of the planets ([[snga phyi byed pa bcu gcig]]). Nine distinct Tibetan lineages of this tantra have been differentiated by Dr Tshul-khrims rgyal-mtshan in Bod kyi rtsis rig kun 'dus chen mo, Vol. 1, pp. 69-282, and it was on the basis of of these textual traditions that the Phug-pa school was founded by mKhas-dbang Nor-bzang rGya-mtsho and Phug-pa Lhun-grub rGya-mtsho, the authors of the Oral Transmissions of the White Lotus: Mother and Sons ([[Pad dkar zhal lung ma bu]]) during the fifteenth century. Their lineage, which was further elucidated in the seventeenth century by Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho, the author of White Beryl ([[Vaiḍūrya dKar po]]), is also known as the accurate system or tradition of calendrical astrology ([[rnam par dag pa'i rtsis]]). See also above, Introduction, pp. 00-00 and Part I, pp. 00-00. [[GD]] (from the Glossary to [[Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings]])
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[[Image:monlam.jpg|frame|Khenpo Konchog Monlam]]
===Short Biography===
Khenpo Konchog Monlam was born to Kyashog Sherab Gyaltsen and Ngoza Tsering Paldon in 1940 at the place called Chitod Dronmey, [[Kham]] [[Nangchen]] (Eastern Tibet). He grew up in his parent's house and spent his childhood helping his family. He became a monk at the age of 13 and began learning primary studies (reading, writing and ritual) in the [[Drikung Kagyu]] monastery of [[Lho Lungkar]] Gompa.


[[Category:Astrology and Divination]]
Due to terrible changes in the region because of Chinese invasion, he had to flee his country at the age of 18. He visited all the holy pilgrimage sites in Nepal and India on his way in to exile, and finally reached [[Tso Pema]], where [[Guru Rinpoche]] transformed the fire into a lake when the King of [[Zahor]] tried to burn him alive, when he was 20.
 
There he received preliminary instructions on the [[Longchen Nyingthig]] teachings from [[Pomda Khenpo]] and [[Dzigar Lama Wangdor]] and then stayed in retreat for one year doing [[ngondro]] practice as had been advised by [[Drikung Khandro]]. Drikung Khandro also advised him to seek out and study with the great [[Nyingma]] master, [[Khenchen Thupten Ozer]]. At the age of 25, Khenpo took both Genyen (begining level buddhist vows) and Getsul (novice) monk vows from [[Khenchen Thupten Ozer]] and then at 26 he took Gelong vows (full monk ordination) with his root guru.
 
He received most teachings from his root guru [[Khenchen Thupten Ozer]] Rinpoche, the well-learned and highly acclaimed scholar of [[Dzogchen Shri Singha]] Institute in Tibet. He also received teachings from many great master like, HH the [[14th Dalai Lama]], HH [[Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje]] Rinpoche, [[Dilgo Khyentse]] Rinpoche, HH [[Sakya Trizin]], [[Drikung Chetsang]] Rinpoche, [[Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen]] , [[Nyoshul Khenpo]] Rinpoche, [[Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche]], [[Dodrupchen Rinpoche]], [[Taklung Tsetrul]] Rinpoche, [[Trulshik Rinpoche]], [[Penor Rinpoche]] and many other master. At the same time he was helping his root guru to look after the affairs of his monastery Pangang Ritod which is located in Manali (Northern India).
 
At the age of 40, in 1978, he was initiated as a [[Khenpo]] and enthroned by his root guru and named [[Khenpo]] [[Konchog]] [[Monlam]]. Since then he started giving teachings at his monastery in Manali and in Tibet at [[Lho Lungkar]] monastery. At the same time he also gave teachings to the local Tibetans at the Tibetan settlement in Bir.
 
In the year 1985, he went back to Tibet to visit relatives who stayed behind there. During his one year stay in Tibet, he gave reading transmissions for both the [[Mani Mantra]] and [[Vajra Guru Mantra]] and more than a thousand committed to Khen Rinpoche that they would give up alcohol and tobacco. While in Tibet he went on pilgrimage to [[Lhasa]], [[Tsang]], [[Drikung]], and many other holy places, to pay respect and make offerings.
 
In 1987 he took the responsibility of Head [[Khenpo]] for nine years and taught the first batch of students at the [[Drikung Kagyu Institute]], at [[Jangchub Ling]], established by HH [[Drikung Chetsang]] Rinpoche. He then joined the late [[Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche]] and Tulku [[Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche]] in their Dharma activities when asked by Urgyen Rinpoche to look after the affairs of [[Nagi Gompa]] Nunnery in Nepal. Teaching the nuns and leading rituals until 2000.
 
Khen Rinpoche established his own retreat center "Ngodrup Charbeb Ling Retreat Center" in 1998. It is located on the west side, about 300 meters from the holy [[Swayambhunath]] [[Stupa]], the most sacred Buddhist site in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. To this date, there has been one set of monks and two set of nuns to have completed the traditional 3 year and 3 month retreat in the [[Longchen Nyingthig]] lineage under the guidance of Khenpo Konchog Monlam. Now there is a third set of nuns starting their retreat in November 2008, and 18 nuns studying Buddhist philosophy, ritual and sciences, as well as English and Chinese languages.
 
''Written by the masters humble student [BL]''
 
===Literary Works===
*བརྒྱུད་གསུམ་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདུང་དབྱངས་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆར་འབེབས་ཀྱི་བླ་རྒྱུད་རྣམ་ཐར་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་བཞུགས་སོ།
brgyud gsum bla ma rnams kyi gdung dbyangs gsol 'debs dngos grub char 'bebs kyi bla rgyud rnam thar phyogs sgrig bzhugs so
 
*བརྒྱུད་གསུམ་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདུང་དབྱངས་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆར་འབེབས་བཞུགས་སོ།
brgyud gsum bla ma rnams kyi gdung dbyangs gsol 'debs dngos grub char 'bebs bzhugs so
 
*མེ་ཏོག་གང་ལ་ཕོག་པའི་ལྷ་སྐལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་གསུམ་ལྡན་གྱི་འདྲེན་མཆོག་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྨེ་བ་མཁན་ཆེན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་འོད་ཟེར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཡི་རྣམ་ཐར་དང་སྐུ་པར་མཐོང་གྲོལ་ཆེན་མོ་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་བཀོད་པའིམཛད་རྣམ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་བླ་མ་དྲན་པའི་དྲན་རྟེན་ཡིད་ཀྱི་མུན་སེལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།
me tog gang la phog pa'i lha skal bka' drin gsum ldan gyi 'dren mchog skyabs rje rme ba mkhan chen thub bstan 'od zer rin po che yi rnam thar dang sku par mthong grol chen mo lhan cig tu bkod pa'imdzad rnam yid bzhin nor bu bla ma dran pa'i dran rten yid kyi mun sel zhes bya ba bzhugs so
 
===Main Teachers===
*[[Khenchen Thupten Ozer]]
*[[Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen]] (kunu bla ma bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan)
*[[Dodrupchen]] Thupten Thrinley Palzang
*[[Chatral Sangye Dorje]]
*[[Dilgo Khyentse]]
 
===Main Students===
*[[Lho Thupten Nyingpo Rinpoche]]
*[[Minam Rinpoche]]
*[[Drupon Thinley Ningpo]]
*[[Khenpo Sherab Ozer]]
 
===Main Lineages===
*[[Longchen Nyingthig]]
*[[Nyingthig Yazhi]]
*[[Nyingma Kama]]
*[[Drikung Kagyu]]
*[[Drikung Yangzab]]
 
===Alternate Names===
*[[Khenpo Konmon]]
*[[Khenpo Könmön]]
*[[Khenpo Kon-mon]]
*<span class=TibUni18>[[སྐྱ་ཤོག་མཁན་ཆེན་དཀོན་མཆོག་སྨོན་ལམ།]]</span>
===Other Reference Sources===
*[http://www.rangjung.com/gl/Lho_Lungkar_Monastery.htm A brief history of Lho Lungkar Gon, Ogmin Tubten Shedrub Ling.]
* Photos from Minam Tulku's birthday 2004[http://www.flickr.com/photos/dharmamedia/5379746069/in/photostream/]
===Internal Links===
*[[A Brief Autobiography of Khenpo Konchog Monlam Rinpoche]]
===External Links===
*[http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P3KG51 BDRC/TBRC Link]
*http://ngodrubcharbebling.com/
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[[Category:Buddhist Masters]]
[[Category:Longchen Nyingthig Masters]]
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]]
[[Category:Drikung Kagyu]]

Latest revision as of 12:01, 6 February 2024

མཁན་པོ་དཀོན་མཆོག་སྨོན་ལམ།
mkhan po dkon mchog smon lam

Khenpo Konchog Monlam

Short Biography

Khenpo Konchog Monlam was born to Kyashog Sherab Gyaltsen and Ngoza Tsering Paldon in 1940 at the place called Chitod Dronmey, Kham Nangchen (Eastern Tibet). He grew up in his parent's house and spent his childhood helping his family. He became a monk at the age of 13 and began learning primary studies (reading, writing and ritual) in the Drikung Kagyu monastery of Lho Lungkar Gompa.

Due to terrible changes in the region because of Chinese invasion, he had to flee his country at the age of 18. He visited all the holy pilgrimage sites in Nepal and India on his way in to exile, and finally reached Tso Pema, where Guru Rinpoche transformed the fire into a lake when the King of Zahor tried to burn him alive, when he was 20.

There he received preliminary instructions on the Longchen Nyingthig teachings from Pomda Khenpo and Dzigar Lama Wangdor and then stayed in retreat for one year doing ngondro practice as had been advised by Drikung Khandro. Drikung Khandro also advised him to seek out and study with the great Nyingma master, Khenchen Thupten Ozer. At the age of 25, Khenpo took both Genyen (begining level buddhist vows) and Getsul (novice) monk vows from Khenchen Thupten Ozer and then at 26 he took Gelong vows (full monk ordination) with his root guru.

He received most teachings from his root guru Khenchen Thupten Ozer Rinpoche, the well-learned and highly acclaimed scholar of Dzogchen Shri Singha Institute in Tibet. He also received teachings from many great master like, HH the 14th Dalai Lama, HH Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, HH Sakya Trizin, Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen , Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche and many other master. At the same time he was helping his root guru to look after the affairs of his monastery Pangang Ritod which is located in Manali (Northern India).

At the age of 40, in 1978, he was initiated as a Khenpo and enthroned by his root guru and named Khenpo Konchog Monlam. Since then he started giving teachings at his monastery in Manali and in Tibet at Lho Lungkar monastery. At the same time he also gave teachings to the local Tibetans at the Tibetan settlement in Bir.

In the year 1985, he went back to Tibet to visit relatives who stayed behind there. During his one year stay in Tibet, he gave reading transmissions for both the Mani Mantra and Vajra Guru Mantra and more than a thousand committed to Khen Rinpoche that they would give up alcohol and tobacco. While in Tibet he went on pilgrimage to Lhasa, Tsang, Drikung, and many other holy places, to pay respect and make offerings.

In 1987 he took the responsibility of Head Khenpo for nine years and taught the first batch of students at the Drikung Kagyu Institute, at Jangchub Ling, established by HH Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche. He then joined the late Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Tulku Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in their Dharma activities when asked by Urgyen Rinpoche to look after the affairs of Nagi Gompa Nunnery in Nepal. Teaching the nuns and leading rituals until 2000.

Khen Rinpoche established his own retreat center "Ngodrup Charbeb Ling Retreat Center" in 1998. It is located on the west side, about 300 meters from the holy Swayambhunath Stupa, the most sacred Buddhist site in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. To this date, there has been one set of monks and two set of nuns to have completed the traditional 3 year and 3 month retreat in the Longchen Nyingthig lineage under the guidance of Khenpo Konchog Monlam. Now there is a third set of nuns starting their retreat in November 2008, and 18 nuns studying Buddhist philosophy, ritual and sciences, as well as English and Chinese languages.

Written by the masters humble student [BL]

Literary Works

  • བརྒྱུད་གསུམ་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདུང་དབྱངས་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆར་འབེབས་ཀྱི་བླ་རྒྱུད་རྣམ་ཐར་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་བཞུགས་སོ།

brgyud gsum bla ma rnams kyi gdung dbyangs gsol 'debs dngos grub char 'bebs kyi bla rgyud rnam thar phyogs sgrig bzhugs so

  • བརྒྱུད་གསུམ་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདུང་དབྱངས་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆར་འབེབས་བཞུགས་སོ།

brgyud gsum bla ma rnams kyi gdung dbyangs gsol 'debs dngos grub char 'bebs bzhugs so

  • མེ་ཏོག་གང་ལ་ཕོག་པའི་ལྷ་སྐལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་གསུམ་ལྡན་གྱི་འདྲེན་མཆོག་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རྨེ་བ་མཁན་ཆེན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་འོད་ཟེར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཡི་རྣམ་ཐར་དང་སྐུ་པར་མཐོང་གྲོལ་ཆེན་མོ་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་བཀོད་པའིམཛད་རྣམ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་བླ་མ་དྲན་པའི་དྲན་རྟེན་ཡིད་ཀྱི་མུན་སེལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།

me tog gang la phog pa'i lha skal bka' drin gsum ldan gyi 'dren mchog skyabs rje rme ba mkhan chen thub bstan 'od zer rin po che yi rnam thar dang sku par mthong grol chen mo lhan cig tu bkod pa'imdzad rnam yid bzhin nor bu bla ma dran pa'i dran rten yid kyi mun sel zhes bya ba bzhugs so

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