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འཕགས་ཡུལ་མཁས་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཟླ་བ་གྲགས། །
In the noble land of India you were the learned mighty Lord Chandrakirti
གངས་ལྗོངས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་དངོས་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རྗེ། །
In the snowy land of Tibet you were the Omniscient Lord, Manjushri manifested in person,
དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཡང་སྤྲུལ་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས། །
Your compassion again manifested as a spiritual guide, inseparable from them,
གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། །།
Shenphen Chökyi Nangwa (Khenpo Shenga), to you I pray!
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<noinclude><span class=TibUni16>[[མཁན་པོ་གཞན་དགའ།]]</span></noinclude><br> | |||
<noinclude>[[mkhan po gzhan dga']]</noinclude><br> | |||
<noinclude>[[Khenchen Zhenphen Chokyi Nangwa]]</noinclude><br> | |||
<noinclude><span class=TibUni16>[[མཁན་ཆེན་གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ།]]</span></noinclude><br> | |||
<noinclude>[[mkhan chen gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba]]</noinclude><br> | |||
[[Image:shenga.jpg|frame|The Great Khenpo Shenga]] | |||
===Short Biography=== | ===Short Biography=== | ||
'''Khenpo Shenga | '''Khenpo Shenga, Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa''' (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. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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<center><span class=TibUni16>འཕགས་ཡུལ་མཁས་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཟླ་བ་གྲགས། །</span></center> | |||
འཕགས་ཡུལ་མཁས་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཟླ་བ་གྲགས། ། | <center>In the noble land of India you were the learned mighty Lord Chandrakirti<br></center> | ||
In the noble land of India you were the learned mighty Lord Chandrakirti<br> | <center><span class=TibUni16>གངས་ལྗོངས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་དངོས་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རྗེ། །</span></center> | ||
གངས་ལྗོངས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་དངོས་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རྗེ། ། | <center>In the snowy land of Tibet you were the Omniscient Lord, Manjushri manifested in person,<br></center> | ||
In the snowy land of Tibet you were the Omniscient Lord, Manjushri manifested in person,<br> | <center><span class=TibUni16>དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཡང་སྤྲུལ་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས། །</span></center> | ||
དབྱེར་མེད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཡང་སྤྲུལ་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས། ། | <center>Your compassion again manifested as a spiritual guide, inseparable from them,<br></center> | ||
Your compassion again manifested as a spiritual guide, inseparable from them,<br> | <center><span class=TibUni16>གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། །།</span></center> | ||
གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། །། | <center>Shenphen Chökyi Nangwa <small>''(Khenpo Shenga)''</small>, to you I pray!<br></center> | ||
Shenphen Chökyi Nangwa (Khenpo Shenga), to you I pray!<br> | |||
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===Main Teachers=== | ===Main Teachers=== | ||
*[[ | *[[Orgyen Tenzin Norbu]]<br> | ||
*[[Khenpo Pema Vajra]]<br> | *[[Khenpo Pema Vajra]]<br> | ||
*[[Jamyang Loter Wangpo]]<br> | *[[Jamyang Loter Wangpo]]<br> | ||
*[[Jamgon Mipham]] | |||
*[[Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro]] | |||
*[[Dzogchen Rinpoche Thupten Chokyi Dorje]] | |||
===Main Students=== | ===Main Students=== | ||
*[[ | *[[Khenpo Thubga]] | ||
*[[Khenpo Jamgyal]] | *[[Khenpo Jamgyal]] | ||
*[[Khenpo Lhagyal]] | *[[Khenpo Lhagyal]] | ||
*[[Khenpo | *[[Khenpo Yeshe Gyatso]] | ||
*[[Khenpo | *[[Khenpo Yonten Gonpo]] | ||
*[[Khenpo | *[[Khenpo Tsewang Rigdzin]] | ||
*[[Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen]] | *[[Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen]] | ||
*[[Tai Situ Pema Wangchok Gyalpo]] | |||
===Main Lineages=== | ===Main Lineages=== | ||
*[[Longchen Nyingthig]] | *[[Nyingma Kama]] | ||
*[[Nyingthig Yazhi]] | |||
*[[Longchen Nyingthig]] | |||
*[[Khandro Nyingthig]] | *[[Khandro Nyingthig]] | ||
===Alternate Names & Spellings=== | ===Alternate Names & Spellings=== | ||
*[[ | *[[Khenpo Zhenga]] | ||
*[[Gyakung Khenpo Shenga]] | |||
===Other Reference Sources=== | ===Other Reference Sources=== | ||
*[[ | *Dharmachakra Translation Committee [[http://www.dharmachakra.net/upcoming.php]] | ||
*[[Middle Beyond Extremes]] by Maitreya, Ju Mipham, and Khenpo Shenga [http://www.snowlionpub.com/search.php?isbn=MIBEEX]<br> | |||
*Khenpo Shenga's commentary ([[dbus dang mtha’ rnam par ‘byed pa’i tshig le’ur bas pa’i mchan ‘grel]])[http://www.dharmachakra.net/download.php?file=Middle%20Beyond%20Extremes%20-%20Khenpo%20Shenga.pdf] | |||
*[[gzhung chen bcu gsum]] Indices [http://www.lotsawaschool.org/thirteen.html] | |||
*[[gzhung chen bcu gsum]]'s TBRC page [http://www.tbrc.org/kb/tbrc-detail.xq;jsessionid=C84438282B3E5CBD0C2E3F955B0C20CC?RID=W23198] | |||
===Internal Links=== | ===Internal Links=== | ||
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===External Links=== | ===External Links=== | ||
*Short bios of the greatest Dzogchen Khenchens[http://www.dzogchenmonastery.org/khenpos.html] | |||
*Intro to the famous [[spyod ‘jug ‘mchan ‘grel]]; [http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Annotated_Commentary_on_the_Bodhicharyavatara] | |||
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id82.html Khenpo Shenga Series on Lotsawa House] | *[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.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] | *[http://www.tbrc.org/cgi-bin/tbrcdatx?do=so&resource=P699 TBRC on Khenpo Shenga] | ||
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[[Category:Buddhist Masters]] | [[Category:Buddhist Masters]] | ||
[[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | [[Category:Nyingma Masters]] | ||
[[Category:Longchen Nyingthig]] | [[Category:Dzogchen Masters]] | ||
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མཁན་པོ་གཞན་དགའ།
mkhan po gzhan dga'
Khenchen Zhenphen Chokyi Nangwa
མཁན་ཆེན་གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ།
mkhan chen gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba
Short Biography
Khenpo Shenga, Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa (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
See Writings of Khenpo Shenga
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Main Teachers
- Orgyen Tenzin Norbu
- Khenpo Pema Vajra
- Jamyang Loter Wangpo
- Jamgon Mipham
- Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
- Dzogchen Rinpoche Thupten Chokyi Dorje
Main Students
- Khenpo Thubga
- Khenpo Jamgyal
- Khenpo Lhagyal
- Khenpo Yeshe Gyatso
- Khenpo Yonten Gonpo
- Khenpo Tsewang Rigdzin
- Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen
- Tai Situ Pema Wangchok Gyalpo
Main Lineages
Alternate Names & Spellings
Other Reference Sources
- Dharmachakra Translation Committee [[1]]
- Middle Beyond Extremes by Maitreya, Ju Mipham, and Khenpo Shenga [2]
- Khenpo Shenga's commentary (dbus dang mtha’ rnam par ‘byed pa’i tshig le’ur bas pa’i mchan ‘grel)[3]
- gzhung chen bcu gsum Indices [4]
- gzhung chen bcu gsum's TBRC page [5]
Internal Links
External Links
- Short bios of the greatest Dzogchen Khenchens[6]
- Intro to the famous spyod ‘jug ‘mchan ‘grel; [7]
- Khenpo Shenga Series on Lotsawa House
- Biography of Khenpo Shenga on Lotsawa House
- TBRC on Khenpo Shenga