Khenpo ngakchung biography samples

Khenpo Ngawang Palzang (Tibetan: མཁན་པོ་ངག་དབང་དཔལ་བཟང་, Wylie: mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang), also known as Khenpo Ngagchung, is considered by the Tibetan tradition to be an emanation of Vimalamitra.^[1][2]

His teacher was the master Nyoshul Lungtok Tenpai Nyima (–), an incarnation of the abbot Shantarakshita, who spent twenty-eight years in the company of Patrul Rinpoche, receiving all the Nyingtik teachings, practicing them under his orientation and attaining the utmost accomplishment of the Great Perfection.^[1]

It is said that even as a baby he displayed supernatural powers and had visions of deities.^[1] From his early teens he was kept under the guidance of Tenpai Nyima.

He completed all the stages of the practice – the preliminaries, sadhana recitations, yogas, and the two aspects of the Great Perfection, trekchö and thögal.

Fully realized in the Longchen Nyingtik teachings, he is the author of the bo