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'''Xuanzang''' was a seventh century Chinese scholar. One of the greatest translators in world history, he travelled to [[Category: Chinese masters]] ...

...]] of [[Dzongsar Shedra]] from 1956 to 1958. He was the last khenpo before Chinese invasion. [[Category: Sakya Masters]] ...

Dodrupchen Rigdzin Tenpé Gyaltsen died in a Chinese prison in 1961.<ref>See Tulku Thondup's [https://www.tulkuthondup.com/image *[[Tulku Thondup]], ''Masters of Meditation and Miracles'' (Shambahala, 1999), pages 298-313. ...

...s largely responsible for the rebuilding of Dodrupchen Monastery after the Chinese destruction. He passed away around 2018. [[Category:Nyingma Masters]] ...

...xts transmissions and all the oral instructions. They all became excellent masters in this special lineage of Chö. ...gden Kunzang Longdrol fled from upper [[Pemakö]] (which was becoming under Chinese control), to southern Pemakö, taking many of his disciples with him. There ...

* ''Karatalaratna'' (only available in Chinese) ==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Bhāvaviveka|Quotations]]== ...

*''Shatashastra'', which only remains in its Chinese translation by Kumārajīva. ==[[Quotations: Indian Masters|Quotations]] from [[Four Hundred Verses]]== ...

'''Hashang''', or Hva-shang Mahayana, or Heshang Moheyan, was the Chinese abbot whom [[Kamalashila]] defeated in a [[Samyé Debate|famous debate]] at [[Category:Historical Masters]] ...

...pire. Chögyal Pakpa extended the Tibetan alphabet, to encompass Mongol and Chinese. The actual use of this script was limited to about a hundred years during [[Category:Historical Masters]] ...

...anonical collections are in the [[Pali Canon|Pali]], Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese languages. *the [[Tengyur]], the treatises composed by learned and accomplished masters. ...

Kyechok Lingpa was forced by the invading Chinese to flee over the Himalayas to India with his wife, Kilo. Kyechok Lingpa the [[Category:Nyingma Masters]] ...

...ting House]] during the chaotic times of the Chinese invasion. In 1959 the Chinese Government launched many campaigns and forced lay people and monks to parti *{{LH|tibetan-masters/alak-zenkar/swift-rebirth-prayer-for-pewar-rinpoche|Prayer for the Swift Re ...

...eived his Buddhist education at a very young age from several accomplished masters in the region. At the age of 16, he started the formal study and practice o ...na and overseas. He is also an author of several highly acclaimed books in Chinese language. ...

...ain disciple of the great abbot [[Shantarakshita]]. He famously defeated a Chinese master of the [[Hashang]] school (whose personal name is sometimes given as [[Category:Historical Masters]] ...

This recognition was later confirmed by other masters, who added that he was also the reincarnation of one of Dudjom Lingpa's son ...is uncle. Samdrup Rinpoche is abbot of Tazi Temple and is fluent in spoken Chinese as he has been teaching throughout China for many years. ...

He died tragically aged just 25 in the turmoil of the Chinese invasion. [[Category:Historical Masters]] ...

...five are still extant in Sanskrit. This collection is also present in the Chinese [[Tripitaka]]. ...

During this period, he received teachings and instructions from such masters as: ...n Rinpoche’s masterpiece “A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage”. Currently, Yeshe Sangpo Rinpoche a ...

...black crown of the Karmapas. The title 'Kenting Tai Situ' was given by the Chinese Emperor Daimingzhen to the 'First' Situ Rinpoche, Chökyi Gyaltsen, in reco [[Category: Karma Kagyü Masters]] ...

...inpoche, Thutop Choekyi Wangchuk''' (b. 1966) is one of the most important masters within the [[Drukpa Kagyü]] tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Five centuries ...tp://www.kyabjedrukpachoegon.net Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche official website (Chinese)] ...

The Chinese Qing, also known as the Manchu, dynasty invested him with a golden seal and [[Category: Gelugpa Masters]] ...

...ng Palzang]]. He was regarded as one of the most accomplished [[Dzogchen]] masters of recent times. On account of his benefactors, the Bomta Tsang, one of the After the Chinese invasion, he went to India, where he gave teachings. He went on pilgrimage ...

...this time, he was able, through legendary exploits and means, to elude the Chinese authorities. ...the Bodhisattvas]]'' to a crowd of over 5,000 people, including Tibetans, Chinese, Mongolians, and other Buddhist practitioners. At Wu Tai Shan, the audience ...

...During the Chinese trouble in Tibet between 1910 and 1912, he resisted the Chinese successfully, and thereafter, when the Dalai Lama came into full power, he [[Category:Nyingma Masters]] ...

...ster [[Nyala Pema Dündul]]. From an early age he studied with many revered masters in [[East Tibet]]. ...Khakhyab Rangdrol]]'' from Jazi Anyé Tulku, and studied and practised with masters of the [[Sakya]], [[Gelug]] and [[Nyingma]] schools. ...

===Masters/Teachers=== ==1.2. Indicating Terms in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Chinese== ...

...ö Drimé by [[Gyurme Pema Namgyal|Shechen Gyaltsap]]. He might have died in Chinese captivity. He was one of the main teachers of [[Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche]] [[Category: Nyingma Masters]] ...

He studied all the tantric rituals and philosophy with many different masters. From his uncle he learned about traditional Tibetan medicine. He completed In 1959, after the Chinese invasion, he left Tibet and after spending one and a half years in Kalimpon ...

...n disciples of [[Guru Rinpoche]]. It was due to his efforts that the great masters [[Shantarakshita]] and Guru Padmasambhava came from India and established B [[Category:Historical Masters]] ...

...stery featured reliquary stupas of Tsangpa Gyaré Yeshe Dorje, other Drukpa masters and of Tertön Chöje Pema Wangdü (Wyl. ''chos rje padma dbang ‘dus''). ...of his prayers. At one moment in time, the monastery was burnt down by the Chinese Amban soldiers who raided the country of Powo. After the Ambans had returne ...

...-1993) — a student of [[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], he was imprisoned by the Chinese for many years, during which he gave [[Dzogchen]] teachings, such as ''[[Ye *[[Nyoshul Khenpo]], ''A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage'', Padma Publications, 2005, 'Golok Kh ...

...se during the state-sponsored translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit, Chinese and several Central Asian languages, which began during the reign of [[King There is no mention of Thönmi Sambhota in either the Chinese chronicles or the Tun-huang documents. ...

...ery was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1842. Among the great masters to have lived and taught at Dzogchen are [[Khenpo Pema Vajra]], [[Patrul Ri ...r (1936). It was rebuilt and then the whole monastery was destroyed by the Chinese in the late 1950s. ...

...have been found in Sanskrit. It has been translated into Tibetan (D 4021), Chinese, Korean and English. ==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]== ...

...ring which he studied [[Yogachara]] philosophy. I-tsing (635-713), another Chinese pilgrim, who visited after Hsüan-tsang and stayed for about ten years, rep [[Image:17Nalanda.jpg|thumb|[[Buddha Shakyamuni]] and the Seventeen Nalanda Masters]] ...

...ugh the text was originally written in Sanskrit, and later translated into Chinese (the last eight chapters only) and Tibetan, only fragments of the Sanskrit Many Tibetan masters wrote commentaries on this text, including: [[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], [[P ...

...turning to his birth place in 1957. Six years later he was arrested by the Chinese and imprisoned for fifteen years. When he was finally released in 1979, he ...

...orer, [[Songtsen Gampo]], had sent his most trusted minister to escort his Chinese bride from the Tang dynasty court. They fell in love, and the minister cons ...ered Mindroling, his mother and father returned to Powo. Fighting with the Chinese broke out in 1958. His father headed the local Powo resistance and commande ...

Zenkar Rinpoche was one of two tulkus at Lhagang. The other was a child of Chinese parents. They were the first generation of tulkus. Previously the seniormos Having learned Chinese, he was appointed to work on the ''Great Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary'' (''bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo'') from 1978 to 1985, serving ...

...Many prophecies about him can be found in the teaching of Buddha and later masters, including [[Padmasambhava]]. Receiving the first precepts from the fourth ...and profound' lineages from Buddha Shakyamuni to [[Atisha]], and the chief masters of the [[Kadam]] lineage. After this he composed his ''[[Great Exposition o ...

...luable record of life before the fall of Old Tibet and existence under the Chinese regime." <ref>''In the Presence of My Enemies: Memoirs of a Tibetan Noblema ...ensive vandalism of the so-called 'Cultural Revolution' carried out by the Chinese in Tibet, the collection of mandalas rescued by Khen Rinpoche is the sole s ...

...thought that he passed away on the tenth day of a lunar month in 1959 in a chinese hospital near Derge. [[Category: Nyingma Masters]] ...

...re familiar with something similar in the meridians and ''ch’i'' energy of Chinese medicine and acupuncture. According to the masters, the human body is compared to a city, the channels to its roads, the winds ...

In 1959, when the Communist Chinese invaded Tibet, Rinpoche left Domang, but was later captured and imprisoned *{{LH|tibetan-masters/yangthang-rinpoche|Yangthang Rinpoche series on Lotsawa House}} ...

This is because of one of the 48<ref>according to chinese translation by Saṃghavarman, different translations list different amount ...nd of Bliss: The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light: Sanskrit and Chinese Versions of the Sukhavativyuha Sutras'' (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Pre ...

...gyal nam mkha'i nor bu'') (1938-2018) was one of the foremost [[Dzogchen]] masters of recent times. He was born in [[Derge]], [[Kham]] (Eastern Tibet) on 8 De ...ceived numerous tantric and Dzogchen transmissions and teachings from many masters, including his paternal uncle Toden Ugyen Tendzin (who achieved the [[rainb ...

...856<Ref>Nyoshul Khenpo, ''A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage'' (Junction City: Padma Publications, ...in 1865, was later involved in the politic environment of the then falling Chinese Empire and the Kham region<Ref> [http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies ...

*949 B.C.E. The [[Blue Annals]] refering to a Chinese tradition from Fo-lin and accepted by the Japanese schools: Jodo, Jodo-Shin *[[Tulku Thondup]], ''Masters of Meditation and Miracles'', edited by Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, ...

...ai Shan's location in China from the [[Avatamsaka Sutra]] is only found in Chinese versions of the scripture. Thus it is debatable whether this and other stat ...ian, Tibetan and Mongol Buddhist teachers were often well respected by the Chinese court and thus granted a privileged position, which allowed them to establi ...

...khapa can be found, made by the Buddha, Guru Padmasambhava and other great masters. Receiving his first precepts from the Fourth Karmapa Rolpé Dorje, he was ...profound' lineages from Buddha Shakyamuni to Atisha, as well as the chief masters of the Kadam lineage. After this, he composed his ‘Great Exposition of th ...

...[[Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal]], who became one of his principal masters. The next few years of his life he visited many monasteries of the [[four s In the 1940s he studied with the leading [[Vajrayana]] masters from all over Tibet, and continued receiving transmissions from the [[Gelug ...

...Many prophecies about him can be found in the teaching of Buddha and later masters, including [[Padmasambhava]]. Receiving the first precepts from the fourth ...and profound' lineages from Buddha Shakyamuni to [[Atisha]], and the chief masters of the [[Kadam]] lineage. After this he composed his ''[[Great Exposition o ...

Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa has received teachings and empowerments from many masters, including: Then, at the request of the masters and students of Zangdok Palri monastery in Kalimpong, India, Dudjom Sangye ...

...fact, each time this festival was held, every year up until the Communist Chinese first entered East Tibet in the 1950s, the Lakar family donated gifts of [[ ...d [[Mipham Rinpoche]] (1846-1912). The Lakar family helped these and other masters, and supported their monasteries whilst at the same time giving alms to the ...

...], in the north-east of Tibet in 1935. He left Tibet in 1959 following the Chinese invasion which began some years earlier. Since then, His Holiness has resid *{{LH|tibetan-masters/fourteenth-dalai-lama|Dalai Lama Series on Lotsawa House}} ...

*Pearcey, Adam, {{LH|tibetan-masters/rigdzin-godem/prayer-of-kuntuzangpo|Prayer of Kuntuzangpo (Kunzang Mönlam) *Vincent Thibault, {{LH|https://www.lotsawahouse.org/fr/tibetan-masters/rigdzin-godem/prayer-of-kuntuzangpo|La Prière de Kuntuzangpo (Kunzang Mön ...

...ith his wife and son. Unfortunately, in the terrible conditions during the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Gönpo Tseten became separated from his wife and son, wh ...of the supremely accomplished [[Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol]]; the two great masters both trained at the gompa there. The photograph on the right of this page, ...

...d not have a graduation ceremony due to Tibet’s military occupation by the Chinese. Wangdor Rinpoche’s family regularly visited him at Dzigar Monastery. Fro ...Wangdor Rinpoche received countless teachings from the following principle masters: ...

...[[Nyoshul Khenpo]], ''[[A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems]]: Biographies of Masters of Awareness in the Dzogchen Lineage'' (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 20 ...d. In Tibet, Namkha Khyung Dzong monastery was completely destroyed by the Chinese. ...

...er, this boy will benefit beings by being a great sponsor of many realized masters and will himself be a great yogi in this hidden land, Pemakö.” He gave t ...he ripening of numerous prophecies about the region that had been given by masters of the past, including [[Guru Rinpoche]]. ...

...n visited physically by these masters, however throughout history Buddhist masters also recounted to have visited Uddiyana in pure visions and dreams. Uddiyan Uddiyana was probably first mentioned by Chinese pilgrims. Faxian (337 – c. 422), Song Yun (? - 528) and [[Xuanzang]] (602 ...

...s and females of all ages and almost equally made up of Tibetan/Bhutanese, Chinese, and Westerners—all practicing as one harmonious group. ...e Darkness of Doubt—Sublime Prayers, Praises, and Practices of the Nyingma Masters'', compiled & translated by Thinley Norbu, Shambhala, 2015 ...