Khenpo Gangshar

Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo (T. mkhan po gang shar dbang po མཁན་པོ་གང་ཤར་དབང་པོ་) (b. 1925) — a renowned Dzogchen lama, who was connected with Shechen Monastery. He was the root teacher of both Chögyam Trungpa and Thrangu Rinpoche, and also one of Dezhung Rinpoche's teachers.

For a while it was thought that he died in prison between 1958 and 1961, but it has also been reported that he in fact survived 22 years of imprisonment, and passed away in 1980/1, before any of his former students could contact him.

Collected works in Tibetan

• Collected Works of Khenpo Gangshar

Writings translated into English

• Khenpo Gangshar Series on Lotsawa House, Lotsawa House, including:
  • Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: Instructions to Guide You on the Profound Path and
  • Vomiting Gold
• Khenchen Thrangu, Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar, with commentary by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2011).
  • More info, Buddha Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative

Further reading

Printed publications:

• Chögyam Trungpa, Born in Tibet (George Allen & Unwin, 1966)
• David Jackson, Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003)

Web publications:

• Khenpo Gangshar, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• Khenpo Gangshar, Buddha Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative

• TBRC Profile