མཁན་པོ་ངག༌དབང་དཔལ་བཟང་།

Khenpo Ngakchung
མཁན་པོ་ངག་ཆུང༌།
mkhan po ngag chung
Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang

Short Biography

Khenpo Ngagchung, Ngawang Palsang. (1879-1941). A khenpo at Katok and a very important reviver of the scholastic lineage of expounding the Dzogchen scriptures. Considered to be incarnation of both Vimalamitra and Longchenpa. Chatral Rinpoche is one of his last living disciples. [RY]

Vimalamitra who actualized the mandala of the supreme level,

Longchenpa expounder of the Samantrabhadra Dharmakaya,

Their emanation, Ngakgi Wangpo, to you I pray.

Grant your blessings for our minds to merge with your wisdom mind.

Literary Works

In Tibetan

• Wrote a commentary on dbu ma la 'jug pa

In English

• A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher

Main Teachers

• Shechen Rabjam Pema Thegchog Tenpe Gyaltsen
• Dzogchen Rinpoche Thupten Chokyi Dorje
• Shabdrung Khenchen Lodro Gyatso
• Tarthang Khenpo Sonam Palden
• Khenchen Sonam Chophel
• Lungtok Tenpe Nyima
• Khenpo Kunpal

Main Students

• Khenpo Tsewang Rigdzin of Mewa
• Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
• Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje
• Botrul Dongak Tenpei Nyima
• Rigdzin Palchen Dupa
• Chatral Rinpoche

Main Lineages

• Nyingma Kama
• Nyingthig Yazhi
• Longchen Nyingtik
• Namcho
  

Alternate Names & Spellings

• Khenchen Ngawang Palzang/ Ngagi Wangpo/ Ngakchung/ Ngaga
• Kathok Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
• Nyoshul Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
• Dzogchen Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
• Palyul Khenchen Ngawang Palzang
• Osel Rinchen Nyingpo Pema Ladrel Tsal ('od gsal rin chen snying po padma las 'brel rtsal)
• Osel Rinchen Nyingpo ('od gsal rin chen snying po)
• Zhonnu Pema Lekdrub (gzhon nu pad ma legs grub)
• Pema Ladrel Tsal (pad ma las 'brel rtsal)
• Tsultrim Gyatso (tshul khrims rgya mtsho)
• Tenpa Rabphel (bstan pa rab 'phel)

Other Reference Sources

• མཁན་པོ་ངག་ཆུང་གི་རང་རྣམ།, mkhan po ngag chung gi rang rnam, The Autobiography of Khenpo Ngakchung;

ISBN7-5409-2289-3/K°178

• དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཆོས་གླིང༌།,dpal yul rnam rgyal byang chub chos gling (pp. 320-326)
• སྔ་འགྱུར་རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཆོས་འབྱུང་ཆེན་མོ།,snga 'gyur rdzogs chen chos 'byung chen mo (pp. 678-689)
• Within the book Quintessential Dzogchen, is the translations of a few works by Khenpo Ngaga
  

Internal Links

• Dzogchen Monastery
• Kathok Monastery
• Palyul Monastery

External Links

• The TBRC Bio-page link[1]
• The Collected Works of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang