Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen
Tenzin Gyaltsen Negi | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | 1894 Sunam |
| Died | February 20, 1977 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Khunu Rinpoche Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| School | Rimé movement |
| Lineage | Nyingma and Kagyu |
| Teachers | Khenpo Shenga, Khenpo Kunpal, Kathok Situ, Drikung Agon, Dzongsar Khentse |
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Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (Tibetan: ཁུ་ནུ་བླ་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: khu nu bla ma bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan; 1894/early 95 – February 20, 1977) was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and teacher in the Rimé tradition, a Dzogchen master, and a teacher of several important Rinpoches of the late 20th century, including the 14th Dalai Lama. He hailed from Kinnaur, India. He was also known also as Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (Tibetan: ནེ་གི་བླ་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: 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).