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'''Terton Dudjom Lingpa'''
'''Khenpo Shenga''', Shenpen Chökyi Nangwa (Tib: mkhan po gzhan dga'; gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba) 1871-1927


Though he lived among ordinary people most of the time, Dudjom Lingpa had hardly been separated from the Buddha Fields. He received only limited teachings and transmissions from human teachers, including Lama Jigme, Lama Jamyang, Kathok Chak-tsa Tulku and Patrul Rinpoche. Yet he had received unceasing teachings from the various Buddhas and enlightened beings in his constant "pure visions". Indeed, hosts of Buddhas, enlightened beings, Dakas and Dakinis were constantly protecting, cherishing and nourishing him spiritually, as well as physically.
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.


At the age of 23, Dudjom Lingpa migrated from his native home of the Ser Valley to the Mar Valley. He stayed there for a long time under the patronage of the Gili family, and so he was came to be popularly known as the Gili Terton.
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.
 
Then, at the age of 25, from among the rocks of Ba-ter of the Mar Valley, Dudjom Lingpa revealed the "prophetic guide" (kha byang) which had all the instructions of how he should discover and reveal his own "Treasures" (Ters).
 
In the same year, with the guidance from the "prophetic guide" Dudjom Lingpa started to discover and reveal his own major "Earth Treasures" from Ngala Tak-tse of the Ser Valley.
 
Since then, Dudjom Lingpa had discovered altogether twenty volumes of these concealed teachings, hidden in the ninth century by Guru Rinpoche himself, as well as many sacred objects as both "Mind Treasures" (Gong-Ters) and "Earth Treasures" (Sa-Ters). These came to be known as "The New Treasures of Dudjom" (Dudjom Tersar).
 
It was reported that Dudjom Lingpa was invited by his two famous contemporaries Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul the Great to include his "New Treasures" (Tersar) into their collection of the "Precious Treasury of Terma" (Rinchen Terdzo), but he politely declined their kind offer by saying that: "wherever the Rinchen Terdzo will be spread, it will be the same with my Tersar".
 
'''His Final Years'''
Except for two brief visits to the Dza-chukha Valley, Dudjom Lingpa spent his life wholly in three main places, namely: the Ser Valley, the Do Valley and the Mar Valley in Eastern Tibet.
At the age of 46, Dudjom Lingpa again migrated to Lama-rong and other places in the Upper Ser Valley. Then, finally at the age of 54, he moved to the Li Gorge in the Upper Do Valley, where he built the Dartsang Kalzang Gon Hermitage, which was to become his residence for the rest of his life.
Towards the end of his life, it was Dudjom Lingpa's intention to reveal and visit the sacred land of Pemakod in Kongpo Valley in Central Tibet, which is one of the four major Hidden Lands blessed by Guru Rinpoche as hiding places for the faithful Dharma practitioners in the Dark Ages. But being unable to do so, Dudjom Lingpa prophesized that his successor would be born there and reveal it himself.
Furthermore, it was also prophesized on his successor by Dudjom Lingpa that "the billions of beings who come into contact with him will be liberated just by the sight, the recognition, the touch, and the experience, and they will be reborn in the Kingdom of Shambhala." With this, Dudjom Lingpa passed away in 1904, and took rebirth as Kyabje Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (1904-1987), [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] the Second, in Pemakod.
 
 
'''His Family Members & Disciples'''
 
Dudjom Lingpa had eight sons:
 
1. [[Tersay Drimed Ozer]] (1881-1924), a great scholar and Terton whose consort was the famous wisdom dakini [[Sera Khandro]] Dewai Dorje (1899-1952)<br>
 
2. [[Jigme Tenpey Nyima]] (1865-1926), the third '''Dodrupchen Rinpoche'''<br>
 
3. Khyentul Dzamling Wangyal (1868-1907), a Tulku of [[Do Khyentse]] (1800-1866)<br>
 
4. Tulku of Cheyo Rigdzin Chenmo, who passed away in early childhood<br>
 
5. Tulku Lhachen Topgyal ( or simply as Tulku Lhatop)<br>
 
6. Tulku Pema Dorje ( who had lived at [[Dodrupchen Monastery]])<br>
 
7. Patrul Namkhai Jigme, the Tulku of [[Patrul Rinpoche]]<br>
 
and
8. Tersay Dorje Dradul (1891-1959), who became the successor of Dudjom Lingpa at the Dartsang Kalzang Gon Hermitage.
 
Besides this, there were thirteen disciples of the Great Terton Dudjom Lingpa who had attained the rainbow body; and that there were others of his lineage who had the same attainments, as was recorded by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche in his work The Fundamentals and History of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism (with the English translation by Gyurme Dorje and Matthew Kapstein and published by Wisdom Publications, 199 Elm St., Somerville, MA02144, U.S.A, 1990, Vol.1, p.919).


===Literary Works===
See [[Writings of Khenpo Shenga]]<br>


===Main Teachers===
===Main Teachers===
*[[Fill in the blanks]]<br>
*[[Onpo Tenzin Norbu]]<br>
*[[Khenpo Pema Vajra]]<br>
*[[Jamyang Loter Wangpo]]<br>


===Main Students===
===Main Students===
*[[Fill in the blanks]]<br>
*[[Tai Situ Pema Wangchok Gyalpo]]<br>
*[[Khenpo Lhagyal]]<br>
*[[Pathur Khenpo Thubten Chöpel]]<br>
*[[Khenpo Tsewang Rigdzin]]<br>


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


===Alternate Names & Spellings===
===Alternate Names & Spellings===
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===Internal Links===
===Internal Links===
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===External Links===
===External Links===
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*[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.

Literary Works

See Writings of Khenpo Shenga

Main Teachers

Main Students

Main Lineages

Alternate Names & Spellings

Other Reference Sources

Internal Links

External Links

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