Khenchen Yonten Gyatso
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མཁན་ཆེན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho
Short Biography
Khenpo Yonga was a personal student of Patrul Rinpoche and Orgyen Tendzin Norbu. He belonged to Gemang Monastery, a branch of Dzogchen Monastery, and studied at Dzogchen and Sechen monasteries. He wrote a very popular two-part commentary on Rigdzin Jikme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities, called Rays of Moonlight and Rays of Sunlight. Among his students were Changma Khenchen Thubten Chöpel and Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin of Washul Mewa.
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In Tibetan
- yon tan rin po che mdzod kyi 'grel ba zla ba'i sgron me (for the sutra section), and nyi ma'i 'od zer (for the mantra section)