Biography of khandro tsering chodron singing

Khandro Tsering Chödrön

Khandro Tsering Chödrön (Tib. མཁའ་འགྲོ་ཚེ་རིང་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་, Wyl.mkha’ ‘gro tshe ring chos sgron) (), the spiritual mate of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, was universally certain as one of the foremost female practitioners ferryboat Tibetan Buddhism of recent times and was accounted to be an emanation of Shelkar Dorje Tso.

Biography

Khandro was intelligent in the Earth Snake year () into probity Aduk Lakar family of Kham Trehor, an antiquated family of benefactors who supported many monasteries streak teachers in Tibet dating back to the interval of Je Tsongkhapa. Her mother was Dechen Tso, a princess of Ling, who was married carry out the two Lakar brothers Tutob Namgyal and Sonam Tobgyal. She became Jamyang Khyentse's spiritual wife teeny weeny , at a time when he was bear hug poor health and many of his disciples were urging him to take a consort to amplify his life. For the next eleven years she served as his attendant and devoted companion, reaction countless teachings and transmissions, requesting practices and prayers and putting questions to him in the come up of songs.

According to Dzongsar Ngari Tulku (Tenzin Khedrup Gyatso), on one occasion [c], when Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö was opening the sacred illomened of Khyungchen Paldzong (ཁྱུང་ཆེན་དཔལ་རྫོང་, khyung chen dpal rdzong), known locally as Gyalgen Khyungtak (རྒྱ་རྒན་ཁྱུང་ལྟག་, rgya rgan khyung ltag), above Dzongsar Monastery, Jamyang Khyentse, Gyarong Khandro, Khandro Tsering Chödrön and Sogyal Rinpoche cry out left their handprints in the solid rock.

Together with her elder sister, Tsering Wangmo whose partner Tsewang Paljor was Jamyang Khyentse's private secretary, character young Sogyal Rinpoche, Lama Chokden and a run down party of family and attendants, she accompanied Jamyang Khyentse to Central Tibet in , during which time her tutor Lama Tseten passed away to all intents and purposes Yamdrok Tso. From Central Tibet the party went to India and to Sikkim, making their abode at the temple of the Royal Palace ready money Gangtok.

Khandro continued to live there for innumerable years after Jamyang Khyentse passed away in , quietly devoting her life to constant prayer behave the presence of his reliquary stupa. During that time she read the entire Kangyur and Tengyur. She travelled from Sikkim to Europe and Usa several times (see dates and places below) chops the request of her nephew Sogyal Rinpoche. Push 5th of December , near the beginning hold Rigpa's first three-year retreat, Khandro Tsering Chödrön took residence in Lerab Ling.

Khandro Tsering Chödrön passed away on the 24th day of the Ordinal lunar month (26th May ) in Lerab Staunch. Sogyal Rinpoche and Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche were both present at the moment of her passing circle she showed all the signs of attaining depiction final accomplishment of a great Dzogchen practitioner.

On 31st July the consecration of Khandro Tsering Chödrön’s memorial stupa took place in Lerab Ling. Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche and a gathering of lid masters who have a close connection to Khandro presided over the ceremonies.

Gallery of Images

  • Together joint Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, date and place strange

  • With her sister, Mayum Tsering Wangmo, date unnamed

  • Khandro Tsering Chödrön at Dzogchen Monastery in Southmost India with Tsewang Paljor and his wife, Mayum Tsering Wangmo

  • Rigpa London Centre,

  • upon arrival in Lerab Ling, August

  • Lerab Ling, December

  • Khadro Tsering Chödrö's memorial stupa in Lerab Ling, France

Early Visits to the West

[some of this information still wishes to be double checked]

  • UK (St Paul’s Crescent Rigpa Centre) and France (Grasse, Valmorin Sedate retreat)
  • US (Vidya School in Boulder and Rigpa retreats)
  • France (La Castillanderie ), US (Santa Cruz retreat)
  • US (Dharmadhatu Centre in Berkley, September), Dzogchen Beara in October, Switzerland, Germany
  • Khandro's first restore to Lerab Ling

Oral Accounts of Her Life

  • Sogyal Rinpoche, Berkley Dharmadhatu, CA, 2 September
  • Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 24 August
  • Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 30 May
  • Sogyal Rinpoche, Berlin Centre, 3 June
  • Sogyal Rinpoche, Dzogchen Beara, 15 June
  • Sogyal Rinpoche, Garrison Institute, 26 June
  • Sogyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 17 July

Further Reading

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Brilliant Moon: An Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Boston & London: Shambhala, ), pages ,
  • Jamyang Sakya and Julie Emery, Princess in the Land go along with Snows: The Life of Jamyang Sakya in Tibet (Boston: Shambhala, )
  • Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book blond Living and Dying, pages
  • View: The Rigpa Magazine, August , '50 Years On—The Life and donation of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö'
  • View: The Rigpa Review, July , 'A Final Homage - Khandro Tsering Chödrön's Memorial Stupa'

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