Person:Dezhung Rinpoche

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Names

Tibetan: སྡེ་གཞུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཀུན་དགའ་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་
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Dates

Born: 1906
Died: 1987

Affiliation

Seat: thar lam dgon pa (sga)

Education

Other Biographical Information

Dezhung Rinpoche, born Ngawang Zangpo, (1906—1987) was a Tibetan lama of the Sakya school. In 1960 he came to the Seattle, Washington in the United States of America, one of the first Tibetan Lamas to settle and teach in the United States. He was born in the Ga (sga) region of eastern Tibet.

TBRC RID: P7679

Main Students

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Quotes

Writings About Dezhung Rinpoche

David Jackson, Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003

Writings


  • gsung 'bum / kun dga' bstan pa'i nyi ma
dharamsala library of tibetan works & archives 2005
  • ngor e wam chos ldan gyi gdan rabs nor bu'i phreng ba mtshan grangs rin chen za ma tog
  • rje btsun bla ma dam pa 'jam dbyangs rgyal mtshan gyi rnam thar mdor sdus skal bzang rna rgyan
new delhi t.g. dhongthog rimpoche 1983