Dezhung Rinpoche

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Dezhung Rinpoche, born Ngawang Zangpo, (1906—1987) was a Tibetan lama of the Sakya school. In 1960 he came to the Seattle, Washington in the United States of America, one of the first Tibetan Lamas to settle and teach in the United States. He was born in the Ga (sga) region of eastern Tibet.

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