Khandro Tsering Chodron
Khandro Tsering Chodron (mkha' 'gro tshe ring chos sgron b.1929), the spiritual wife of Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro, is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost female practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism alive today. She was born into the Aduk Lakar family of Kham Trehor, an ancient family of benefactors who supported many monasteries and teachers in Tibet dating back to the time of Je Tsongkhapa. Her mother was Dechen Tso, a princess of Ling, who was married to the two Lakar brothers Tutob Namgyal and Sonam Tobgyal. She became Jamyang Khyentse's spiritual wife in 1948, at a time when he was in poor health and many of his disciples were urging him to take a consort to prolong his life. For the next eleven years she served as his attendant and devoted companion, receiving countless teachings and transmissions, requesting practices and prayers and putting questions to him in the form of songs. Together with her elder sister, Tsering Wangmo whose husband Tsewang Paljor was Jamyang Khyentse's private secretary, the young Sogyal Rinpoche, Lama Chokden and a small party of family and attendants, she accompanied Jamyang Khyentse to Central Tibet in 1955, during which time her tutor Lama Tseten passed away near Yamdrok Tso. From Central Tibet the party went to India and to Sikkim, making their residence at the temple of the Royal Palace in Gangtok. Khandro has continued to live there ever since Jamyang Khyentse passed away in 1959, quietly devoting her life to constant prayer in the presence of his reliquary stupa. She has travelled to Europe and America several times, most recently in 1996, at the request of her nephew Sogyal Rinpoche.
Main Teachers
- Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
- Lama Tseten (her tutor)
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