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'''His Holiness Sakya Trizin'''<ref>Also called by Tibetans Sakya Gongma Rinpoche (ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl. ''sa skya gong ma rin po che'').</ref><ref>His fuller name is: Ngawang Kunga Tekchen Palbar Sampel Wangi Gyalpo.</ref> (Tib. ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་, [[Wyl.]] ''sa skya khri 'dzin'') (b. 7 September 1945)<ref>In the lunar calendar: 1st day of the 8th lunar month of the Wood Bird year.</ref> is the revered throne holder of the [[Sakya]] order of [[Tibetan Buddhism]]. He is the 41st patriarch of the [[Khön family|Khön]] lineage which dates back to 1073. He is renowned as an emanation of both [[Manjushri]] and Mahasiddha [[Virupa]], the founder of the [[Lamdré]] teachings, and also as an incarnation of [[Apang Tertön]]. He is a brilliant master who manifests profound wisdom and compassion, and his excellent command of English render his teachings particularly beneficial to western students.   
'''Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche''', previously known as His Holiness Sakya Trizin<ref>Also called by Tibetans Sakya Gongma Rinpoche (ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl. ''sa skya gong ma rin po che'').</ref><ref>His fuller name is: Ngawang Kunga Tekchen Palbar Sampel Wangi Gyalpo.</ref> (Tib. ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་, [[Wyl.]] ''sa skya khri 'dzin''), (b. 7 September 1945)<ref>In the lunar calendar: 1st day of the 8th lunar month of the Wood Bird year.</ref> was the previous throne holder of the [[Sakya]] order of [[Tibetan Buddhism]] and the 41st patriarch of the [[Khön family|Khön]] lineage which dates back to 1073. He is renowned as an emanation of both [[Manjushri]] and Mahasiddha [[Virupa]], the founder of the [[Lamdré]] teachings, and also as an incarnation of [[Apang Tertön]]. He is a brilliant master who manifests profound wisdom and compassion, and his excellent command of English render his teachings particularly beneficial to western students.   


He was born in 1945 in Tibet and escaped with his family to India in 1959 where he continues to live and rebuild both the lay and monastic elements of the Sakya tradition. He has guided the establishment of over thirty monasteries in India and Nepal and has helped found Sakya centres around the world.     
He was born in 1945 in Tibet and escaped with his family to India in 1959 where he continues to live and rebuild both the lay and monastic elements of the Sakya tradition. He has guided the establishment of over thirty monasteries in India and Nepal and has helped found Sakya centres around the world.     

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Kyabgon Dongma Trichen Rinpoche

Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche, previously known as His Holiness Sakya Trizin[1][2] (Tib. ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་, Wyl. sa skya khri 'dzin), (b. 7 September 1945)[3] was the previous throne holder of the Sakya order of Tibetan Buddhism and the 41st patriarch of the Khön lineage which dates back to 1073. He is renowned as an emanation of both Manjushri and Mahasiddha Virupa, the founder of the Lamdré teachings, and also as an incarnation of Apang Tertön. He is a brilliant master who manifests profound wisdom and compassion, and his excellent command of English render his teachings particularly beneficial to western students.

He was born in 1945 in Tibet and escaped with his family to India in 1959 where he continues to live and rebuild both the lay and monastic elements of the Sakya tradition. He has guided the establishment of over thirty monasteries in India and Nepal and has helped found Sakya centres around the world.

His elder sister is Jetsün Kushok Chimey Luding. He has two sons, Khonrig Ratna Vajra Sakya and Khondung Gyana Vajra Rinpoche.

Teachings & Empowerments Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Notes

  1. Also called by Tibetans Sakya Gongma Rinpoche (ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl. sa skya gong ma rin po che).
  2. His fuller name is: Ngawang Kunga Tekchen Palbar Sampel Wangi Gyalpo.
  3. In the lunar calendar: 1st day of the 8th lunar month of the Wood Bird year.

Publications

  • His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Freeing the Heart and Mind—Introduction to the Buddhist Path: Part 1, Wisdom Publications

Further Reading

  • Sandra Penny-Dimri,'The Lineage of His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga' in The Tibet Journal, Vol.20 No.4 Winter 1995

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