Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo

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Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo (pha bong kha bde chen snying po ཕ་བོང་ཁ་བདེ་ཆེན་སྙིང་པོ།) (1878–1941). Also known as Pabongka Rinpoche. A highly influential lama in the twentieth-century Gelug tradition.[1]

He was the root guru of Ling Rinpoche (1903-83) and the senior tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama, Trijang Rinpoche, and many other highly respected teachers.[2] His collected works occupy fifteen large volumes and cover every aspect of Buddhism.[2]

Further reading

Web publications:

Print publications:

  • Pabongka Rinpoche (2006), "Pabongka Rinpoche: A Memior by Rilbur Rinpoche", in Trijang Rinpoche, Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, A Concise Discourse on the Path to Enlightenment, translated by Michael Richards, Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications 

Notes

  1. ↑ Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo, Shambhala Publications
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pabongka Rinpoche 2006, "Translator's Introduction".

Sources

  • Pabongka Rinpoche (2006), Trijang Rinpoche, ed., Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, A Concise Discourse on the Path to Enlightenment, translated by Michael Richards, Somerville, MA: Wisdom