Dezhung Rinpoche

Dezhung Rinpoche III with Chris Wilkinson seated at the feet of his lama, wearing Buddhist robes, malas, likely Seattle, date unknown
Tulku Dezhung Rinpoche IV in 1999

Dezhung Rinpoche Kunga Tenpai Nyima (Tibetan: སྡེ་གཞུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཀུན་དགའ་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་, Wylie: sde gzhung rin po che kun dga' bstan pa'i nyi ma ), born Ngawang Zangpo, (1906–1987) was a Tibetan lama of the Sakya school, one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug). In 1960 he came to Seattle, Washington in the United States of America, one of the first Tibetan lamas to settle and teach in the United States.[1]

Rinpoche was the teacher of a number of renowned Tibetologists, including Turrell V. Wylie and E. Gene Smith, and the root teacher of leading translator Christopher Wilkinson. [2]

Rinpoche died in 1987. His reincarnation, Dezhung Rinpoche IV, was born in Seattle in 1991, and trained at Tharlam Monastery in Nepal.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Jackson, David Paul (2003). A Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche. Wisdom publications. pp. 768 pages. ISBN 0-86171-396-6.
  2. ↑ Wilkinson, Christopher (2015). The Gods and Demons are Not Two. CreateSpace. p. i. ISBN 978-1519615701.
  3. ↑ AP (1996-01-29). "Seattle Boy, 4, Enthroned as a Lama in Nepal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  4. ↑ Halverson, Matthew (February 2, 2016). "Seattle's Sonham Wangdu Is Tibet's Dezhung Rinpoche Reincarnated". Seattle Met. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  5. ↑ Moriwaki, Lee (January 20, 1996). "Buddhists Revere 4-year-old As Reincarnated Lama". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 2017-08-05.


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