Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo

Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (Tib. ངོར་ཆེན་ཀུན་དགའ་བཟང་པོ་, Wyl. ngor chen kun dga' bzang po) (1382-1456). An influential teacher of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, he is credited with founding the Ngor subschool.

He was a contemporary of Rongtön Sheja Kunrig and a teacher of Shakya Chokden and Gorampa Sonam Senge. He founded Ngor Monastery in 1430.

Further reading

• Jörg Heimbel, 'Biographical Sources for Researching the Life of Ngor chen Kun dga' bzang po (1382–1456)' in Revue d'Etudes Tibetains 22, 2011

External links

• TBRC profile
• ངོར་ཆེན་བཀའ་འབུམ་, ngor chen bka' 'bum
• Biography at Treasury of Lives
• Himalayan Art Page
• Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• Throneholders of Ngor Monastery, Rigpa Shedra Wiki