Person:Ponlop, Dzogchen

Names

Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་དཔོན་སློབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་། : ཀར་མ་གསུང་རབ་ངེས་དོན་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་།

Wylie:

• Rdzogs chen dpon slob
  
• rdzogs chen dpon slob rin po che
  
• Karma nges don gsung rab bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan
  
• rje dpon rin po che
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
  
• The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Ngedon Sungrab Tenpe Gyaltsen
  
• Ngedon Sungrab Tenpe Gyaltsen
• Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen
  
• Karma Sungrap Ngedön Tenpa Gyaltsen - "Victory Banner of the Scriptures of Definitive Meaning"
  
• Ponlop Rinpoche
  
• The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop
  
• DPR
  

Dates

b. 1965 in Sikkim, Northern India - presently resides in Seattle, WA, USA

Affiliation

Nyingma and Kagyu

Dzogchen Monastery, Khams

Founder of Nalandabodhi, Nitartha Institute, Nalandabodhi International, Nitartha Translation Network.

Other Biographical Information

Longevity Supplication for the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Previous Incarnations

• 1st Dzogchen Ponlop Namkha Osel
• 2nd Dzogchen Ponlop Pema Sangngak Tendzin
• 3rd Dzogchen Ponlop Namkha Chokyi Gyatso
• 4th Dzogchen Ponlop Jigme Choying Osel
• 5th Dzogchen Ponlop Konchok Tenpe Nyima
• 6th Dzogchen Ponlop Jigtral Tsewang Dorje
• 7th Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen)

Websites

Biography of The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche (Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen)
DPR Homepage
Nalandabodhi - the Sangha of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Nalandabodhi Canada - the Sangha of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in Canada
Nitartha Institute - A yearly academic program held in Canada

• Dzogchen Gompa website
• Dzogchen Rinpoche and Dzogchen Monastery India
• Dzogchen history and Dzogchen Monastery Tibet

Main Teachers

• Karmapa, 16th, Rangjung Rikpey Dorje
• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
  
• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
• Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
• Karmapa, 17th

Quotes

Let go and relax.

Writings

• Works by Ponlop, Dzogchen in the research library

2003: "Brief Histories of the Sixteen Karmapas". In: Music in the Sky: The Life, Art & Teachings of the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Snow Lion Publications, U.S.A. First Indian Reprint: New Age Books, New Delh. (2004). ISBN 81-7822-193-4.
2003: Wild Awakening: The Heart of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. ISBN 1590300963 (SP)
2006: Penetrating Wisdom: the Aspiration of Samantabhadra. ISBN 1559392665 (SLP)
2007: Mind Beyond Death. ISBN 1559392762 (SLP)