Yangthang Rinpoche

Yangthang Rinpoche
Religion Buddhism
School Nyingma
Lineage Palyul
Dharma names ཀུན་བཟང་འཇིགས་མེད་བདེ་ཆེན་འོད་གསལ་རྡོ་རྗེ། Kunzang Jigmed Dechen Ösal Dorje
Personal
Nationality Tibetan
Born (1930-01-10)January 10, 1930
Yangthang, Western Sikkim, India
Died October 15, 2016(2016-10-15) (aged 86)
Hyderabad, India
Parents
  • པདྨ་འགྲོ་འདུལ། Padma 'Dro-'dul (father)
  • བསྟན་འཛིན་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Bstan-'zin-Chos-sgron (mother)
Senior posting
Title Domang Yangtrul
Religious career
Reincarnation Terton Dorje Dechen Lingpa and Lhatsun Namkha Jigmed

Yangthang Rinpoche or Domang Yangthang Rinpoche (Tib. མདོ་མང་གཡང་ཐང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།, Wyl. mdo mang g.yang thang rin po che) or Kunzang Jigmed Dechen Ösal Dorje (Tibetan calendar: 16th Rabjyung, Sa abrul, 10th of 11th month-17th Rabjyung, Me sprel, 14th of 8th month) (1930–2016) was a renowned Nyingma teacher from the region of Yangthang who was associated with Domang Monastery, a branch of Palyul in Eastern Tibet.[1] He died in Hyderabad in 2016.[2][3]

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