Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo

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Sera Khandro

Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo
སེ་ར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་སྐྱོང་དབང་མོ།
A statue of Sera Khandro
A statue of Sera Khandro
Other namesBde-baʼi-rdo-rje, mDo-med mkhaʼ-spyod, dBus-bzaʼ mkhaʼ-ʼgro kun- bzang bde-skyong dbang-mo
Personal
Died
dbyi shod dpal gyi ri bo che
ReligionBuddhist
NationalityTibetan
LineageNyingma
Other namesBde-baʼi-rdo-rje, mDo-med mkhaʼ-spyod, dBus-bzaʼ mkhaʼ-ʼgro kun- bzang bde-skyong dbang-mo
TempleSera Tekchen Chokhorling[1]
Senior posting
ReincarnationYeshe Tsogyal
Students

Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo (1892–1940) or Sera Kandro is considered an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal, and in her lifetime was a Terton of Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana, a biographer and autobiographer, and a highly respected teacher.[2][3] She taught Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, and the First Adzom Drukpa, , among other high lamas.[3]

Sera Khandro was born into a rich family, but ran away at the age of 14 to escape an unwanted engagement, and to follow the Vajrayana teacher , who was then in Lhasa on pilgrimage from Golok in Eastern Tibet.[4] She returned with him and his students to Golok, where she lived as a renunciate. There, Sera Khandro became life partners with .[3] [4]

Garra Gyelsel disliked her Terma revelations, and this caused Sera Khandro to become sick.[4] Her health returned when she left and returned to Drime Ozer with whom she subsequently revealed the specific treasure scriptures, or Terma, for which Sera Khandro is known.[4] From when she was young she had experienced visions of Vajravarahi and exhibited many confirming indications of being a treasure revealer, a Terton. This meant that Sera Khandro had karmic connections with hidden treasures of the Nyingma Terma lineage, and to those which concealed the Termas, eighth-century Vajrayana master Padmasambhava and his consort and Vajrayana master Yeshe Tsogyal.[4]

Sera Khandro was a teacher to many high Nyingma lamas, including Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and Chatral Sangye Dorje.[4]

She is considered an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal.[2]

In Sarah H. Jacoby's Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), the author wrote Khandro was "one of the few Tibetan women to record the story of her life." Khandro also wrote the biography of her guru, ,[5] son of the Terton Dudjom Lingpa.

Books and academic articles[]

  • (in English) Zangpo, Ngawang (2002). The Immaculate White Lotus in Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times. Boulder: Shambhala Publications. p. 360. ISBN 978- 1559391740.

References[]

  1. ^ "Sera Tekchen Chokhorling". Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2016-12-10.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Kurtis R. Schaeffer. "Sources of Tibetan Tradition". google.com.au (Google books). Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Biography: Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo". [Treasury of Lives]. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Alexander Gardner. "Treasury of Lives: Female Buddhist Masters". tricycle. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  5. ^ Jacoby, Sarah Hieatt (2007). "Consorts and Revelations in Eastern Tibet : The Auto/Biographical Writings of the Treasure Revealer Sera Khandro (1892-1940)". UVA Library | Virgo. Retrieved 2017-08-06.

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