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'''Lingtsang Gyalpo Wangchen Tenzin''' (Tib. གླིང་ཚང་རྒྱལ་པོ་དབང་ཆེན་བསྟན་འཛིན་, [[Wyl.]] ''gling tshang rgyal po dbang chen bstan 'dzin''), also known as '''Lingtsang Gyalgenma''' (the 'old king of Ling') (b. ?-d. ca.1942), was the king of the province of Ling and a [[tertön]] famous for his revelation of the [[long life practice]] focusing on the consort of [[Amitayus]], known as 'Tséyum [[Tsendali]]'. He was a disciple of [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] and a teacher of [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]]. 

He had three sons and one daughter, Dechen Tso, who was the mother of [[Khandro Tsering Chödrön]] and [[Mayum Tsering Wangmo]]. After his death in Dzongri Lingtsang in around 1942 the title of Lingtsang Gyalpo passed to his son Phuntsok Gelek Rabten, a former monk, who later died in Kalimpong. Two of Phuntsok Gelek Rabten's five children are still alive today, a son, Sey Jigme Wangdu, who currently lives in Chengdu and a daughter, Princess Rinzin Wangmo, who lives in Dehra Dun. 

Lingtsang Gyalpo, who is [[Sogyal Rinpoche]]'s great grandfather, is also considered to be one of Sogyal Rinpoche's previous incarnations.

==Further Reading==
*Tashi Tsering, "History of the Gling-tshang Principality of Khams: A Preliminary Study" in ''Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Narita 1989 (Volume 2)'', Tokyo 1992, pp. 793-821

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