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Khenchen Yonten Gyatso
མཁན་ཆེན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho
Khenpo Yonga
mkhan po yon ga
Short Biography[edit]
Gemong Khenchen Yonten Gyatso was a personal student of Paltrul Rinpoche and Orgyen Tenzin Norbu. He belonged to Gemang Monastery, a branch of Dzogchen Monastery, and studied at Dzogchen and Shechen 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. According to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche he taught Guhyagarbha Tantra each and every year and was a great holder of this lineage teaching. Among his students were Changma Khenchen Thubten Chöpel and Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin of Washul Mewa.
Primary Teachers[edit]
- Jamgon Mipham
- Paltrul Rinpoche
- Khenpo Padma Vajra
- Orgyen Tenzin Norbu
- Gyalse Zhenpen Thaye
- Mura Rinpoche Pema Dechen Zangpo
Primary Students[edit]
- Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal
- Golok Khenpo Rigdzin Zangpo
- Khenpo Pema Thegchog Loden
- Adro Khenpo Yeshe Gyatso (a gro'i mkhan po ye shes rgya mtsho, b. c. 1888)[1]
- Khenpo Tsewang Rigdzin
- Khenpo Kunpal
- Khenpo Thubga
- Lushul Tulku[2]
Primary Lineage[edit]
Publications[edit]
In Tibetan[edit]
- 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)
In English[edit]
Alternate Names & Spellings[edit]
- Gemong Khenpo Yonga