Khenchen Kunzang Pelden was a Nyingma scholar and teacher associated with Katok Monastery. A student of a number of distinguished Nyingma teachers including Dza Patrul and Ju Mipam, he was an important Longchen Nyingtik lineage holder. He composed a famous commentary to the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra (The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech), and served Katok Monastery as the first abbot of its study center, Shedrub Norbu Lhunpo, for three years. Following retirement he returned to his hometown and taught until his death in 1944.
Library Items
The Single Intention: The Root Text, a Commentary by Khenpo Kunpal, and an Overview by Rinchen Jangchub
The Single Intention by Jigten Sumgön (1143–1217), the founder of the Drikung Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, is a key philosophical text for the whole Kagyu tradition. It contains Jigten Sumgön’s special teachings in 150 pithy “vajra statements” and their 40 additions.
It is about the fundamental intention that underlies all the Buddha’s teachings and unites all the categories of Buddhist concepts within one central principle – the “actual reality of the nature or state of all phenomena.” One of the main messages is the universal validity and unchangeable nature of virtue and non-virtue, which means that no one can bypass the foundational practices and the observance of disciplined conduct..
(Source: Garchen Stiftung)Nielsen, Solvej Hyveled, trans. The Single Intention: The Root Text, a Commentary by Khenpo Kunpal, and an Overview by Rinchen Jangchub. Munich, Germany: Garchen Sriftung, 2022.
Nielsen, Solvej Hyveled, trans. The Single Intention: The Root Text, a Commentary by Khenpo Kunpal, and an Overview by Rinchen Jangchub. Munich, Germany: Garchen Sriftung, 2022.;The Single Intention: The Root Text, a Commentary by Khenpo Kunpal, and an Overview by Rinchen Jangchub;Jikten Gönpo;འབྲི་གུང་སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་;'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po;'jig rten mgon po;rin chen dpal;'jig rten gsum mgon;'bri gung gdan rabs 01;འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་;རིན་ཆེན་དཔལ་;འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་;འབྲི་གུང་གདན་རབས་༠༡་; Kunzang Palden;ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་;kun bzang dpal ldan;mkhan po kun dpal;mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan thub bstan chos kyi grags pa;mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan;མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དཔལ་;མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་;མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་;Rinchen Jangchub;རིན་ཆེན་བྱང་ཆུབ;rin chen byang chub;Solvej Hyveled Nielsen;The Single Intention: The Root Text, a Commentary by Khenpo Kunpal, and an Overview by Rinchen Jangchub
Other names
- མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དཔལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ · other names (Tibetan)
- mkhan po kun dpal · other names (Wylie)
- mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan thub bstan chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)
- mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan · other names (Wylie)
Affiliations & relations
- Nyingma · religious affiliation
- Dpal sprul 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po · teacher
- mi pham rgya mtsho · teacher
- Dodrupchen, 3rd · teacher
- o rgyan bstan 'dzin nor bu · teacher
- gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba · teacher
- pad+ma badz+ra · teacher
- dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho · teacher
- Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th · student
- a 'dzom rgyal sras 'gyur med rdo rje · student
- ngag dbang dpal bzang · student
- bod sprul mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma · student
- 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros · student
- khu nu bla ma bstan 'dzin rgyal mtshan · student
