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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox religious biography<br />
| name = Tenzin Gyaltsen Negi<br />
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| alias = Khunu Rinpoche<br>Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen<br />
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| birth_date = 1894<br />
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| death_date = February 20, 1977<br />
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| nationality = Indian<br />
| religion = [[Tibetan Buddhism]]<br />
| school = [[Rimé movement]]<br />
| lineage = kagyud nyingma<br />
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| teacher = Khenpo shenga , khenpo kunpal ,kathok situ , Drikung Agon ,Dzongsar Khentse<br />
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| successor = <br />
| students = [[14th Dalai Lama]],<br />
<nowiki> Drikung Khandro , Wangdor Rimpoche, Khenpo Thupten , Khenpo Konchok Gyalysen, HH Dilgo Khyentse ,Lamkhen Gyalpo Rinpoche. [Karma Thinley Rinpoche]]</nowiki><br />
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'''Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen''' ({{bo-tw|t=ཁུ་ནུ་བླ་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་མཚན|ume=1|w=khu nu bla ma bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan}}), 1894–1977,{{sfnp|Dodin|1993}} known also as '''Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen''' ({{bo-tw|t=ནེ་གི་བླ་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་མཚན|ume=1|w=ne gi bla ma bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan}}), '''Tenzin Gyaltsen''' (bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan), and various other names like '''Kunu (khu nu) Rinpoche''', '''Kunu Lama''' and '''Negi Lama''' (ne gi bla ma),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dodin |first1=Thierry |title=Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen – A preliminary account of the life of a modern Buddhist saint. |url=https://info-buddhism.com/Khunu-Rinpoche-Negi-Lama-Tenzin-Gyaltsen-Dodin.html |website=info-buddhism.com |publisher=Recent Research on Ladakh, 6. Bristol, 1996 |access-date=7 September 2018}}</ref> was born in 1894 in the village of Sunam which lies in the forest-clad [[Kinnaur district]] of [[India]] in the western [[Himalayas]].{{sfnp|Dodin|1993}} Khunu Rinpoche was neither a [[tulku]] nor a [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]] but a layman ({{bo|w=dge bsnyen}}, Skt. [[Upāsaka and Upāsikā|upāsaka]]) who took the lay practitioner's vows .{{sfnp|Dodin|1993}}<br />
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He is renowned as one of the influential teachers in the [[rimé movement|Rimé]] (non-sectarian) movement within [[Tibetan Buddhism]].{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} A foremost scholar of [[Sanskrit]] and [[Classical Tibetan]], Khunu Rinpoche traveled widely in Tibet and India disseminating essential teachings of Buddhist philosophy.<br />
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His students include Drikung Khandro, Khenpo Konchok Gyaltsen, Lamkhen Gyalpo Rinpoche and the [[14th Dalai Lama]] of Tibet.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rinpoche |first1=Kyabje Lama Zopa |title=Khunu Lama Rinpoche's Story |url=https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/khunu-lama-rinpoches-story |website=lamayeshe.com |publisher=Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition |access-date=7 September 2018}}</ref> Although the Dalai Lama had other highly qualified teachers and debate partners for religious matters, he used to clarify philosophical concepts in discussions with Khunu Lama.{{sfnp|Dodin|1993}} Among several teachings that the Dalai Lama received from Khunu Rinpoche was the celebrated ''[[Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra]]'' or ''[[Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life]]'' by [[Shantideva]]. The Dalai Lama called him the "Shantideva of our time."{{sfnp|Dodin|1993}} and often mentions him when teaching.<br />
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His seminal work on [[bodhicitta]] was translated and published under the title of ''Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta'' by Wisdom Publications in 1999.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rinpoche|first1=Khunu|title=Vast as the heavens, deep as the sea : verses in praise of bodhicitta|date=2000|publisher=Wisdom Publications|location=Boston|isbn=978-0861711468}}</ref><br />
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He died at [[Shashur Monastery]] in [[Lahaul and Spiti district]] of [[Himachal Pradesh]] at the age of 82 on February 20, 1977.{{sfnp|Dodin|1993}}<br />
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Two reincarnations of Khunu Lama have been identified, both of whom are teachers in the Buddhist tradition.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} Jangchhub Nyima was born to a Tibetan father and Danish mother and currently teaches in India and Denmark.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} [[Tenzin Priyadarshi]] was born into a family of Brahmin parents in [[Bihar]], India and is known for his continued interest in Sanskrit Buddhist literature and was the first Buddhist Chaplain at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi |url=http://web.mit.edu/metta/www/chaplain.shtml |website=web.mit.edu/ |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=7 September 2018}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
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*{{cite book |last=Dodin |first=Thierry <br />
|editor-first=Henry |editor-last=Osmaston<br />
|title=Recent research on Ladakh 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Colloquium on Ladakh, Leh 1993<br />
|chapter=Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen: A preliminary account of the life of a modern Buddhist saint<br />
|date=1993<br />
|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass<br />
|location=Delhi<br />
|publication-date=1997<br />
|isbn= 8120814320<br />
|oclc= 243896748<br />
}}<br />
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*{{cite book |first=Anabella |last=Pitkin |editor-first=Gray |editor-last=Tuttle |chapter=Lineage, Authority and Innovation: The Biography of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen|title=Mapping the Modern in Tibet. PIATS 2006: Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies |publisher=Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH|date=2012 |isbn=978-3-03809-111-0}}<br />
*{{cite thesis |type=Ph.D. |first=Anabella |last=Pitkin <br />
|title="Practicing Philosophy: The Intellectual Biography of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen. <br />
|publisher=Columbia |year=2009}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last=Pitkin |first=Anabella <br />
|date=2004 |title=Cosmopolitanism in the Himalayas: The intellectual and spiritual journeys of Khu nu bLa ma sTan 'dzin rgyal mtshan and his Sikkimese teacher, Khang gsar ba bLa ma O rgyan bstan 'dzin Rin po che <br />
|url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_2004_02_01.pdf <br />
|journal=Bulletin of Tibetology |publisher= Namgyal Institute of Tibetology |location=Gangtok <br />
|volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=5–24 |access-date=2 August 2014<br />
}}<br />
*{{cite web<br />
| url = http://emptyelephant.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/sunlight-blessings-which-cure-the-longing-of-remembrance-pdf-9.pdf <br />
| title = Sunlight Blessings That Cure the Longing of Remembrance: A Biography of the Omniscient Khunu Mahāsattva, Tenzin Gyeltsen<br />
| author = Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche<br />
| others = Erick Tsiknopoulos and Mike Dickman (translators)<br />
| date = n.d.<br />
| website = [sugatagarbhatranslations.com/ Sugatagarbha Translations]<br />
| access-date = 2014-08-02<br />
}}<br />
*{{cite web <br />
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|title=Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen <br />
|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> <br />
|date=n.d. |website=RigpaWiki |publisher=Rigpa <br />
|access-date=2014-08-02<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://info-buddhism.com/Khunu-Rinpoche-Negi-Lama-Tenzin-Gyaltsen-Dodin.html Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen – A preliminary account of the life of a modern Buddhist saint] by Thierry Dodin<br />
*[http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Khunu_Lama_Tenzin_Gyaltsen Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen at Rigpa Wiki]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131206113132/http://sugatagarbhatranslations.com/2011/12/15/sunlight-blessings-that-cure-the-longing-of-remembrance-a-biography-of-the-omniscient-khunu-mahasattva-tenzin-gyeltsen-khunu-lama-rinpoche-by-lamchen-gyalpo-rinpoche/ Sunlight Blessings that Cure the Longing of Remembrance: A Biography of the Omniscient Khunu Mahāsattva, Tenzin Gyeltsen (Khunu Lama Rinpoche), by Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche, translated from Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos and Mike Dickman]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120626033224/http://sugatagarbhatranslations.com/2012/06/19/the-one-page-prayer-a-prayer-to-khunu-lama-rinpoche-composed-by-khunu-lama-rinpoche-himself/ The One-Page Prayer: A Prayer to Khunu Lama Rinpoche Composed by Khunu Lama Rinpoche Himself, Translated from Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos]<br />
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