Ngawang Thutob Wangchug Dragshul Yonten Gyatso Tashi Dragpai Gyaltsen Pal Zangpo is the fortieth throne holder of Sakya. His father was the thirty-eighth Sakya throne holder, Zamling Chegu Wangdu and his mother was Chonyi Wangmo from the noble family of Thunmi Sambhota. Many wondrous auspiciousness signs were witnessed when he was born. It is said […]
Zamling Chegü Wangdü is the thirty-eighth Sakya throneholder. His father was Ngawang Kunga Sonam, the thirty-sixth Sakya throneholder. Further Readings: Brief Biography of Zamling Chegü Wangdü by H.E. Avikrita Vajra Rinpoche […]
“Jetsunma Tamdrin Wangmo, also known as Jetsunma Kalsang Chökyi Nyima. She is from the Phuntsok Phodrang. You know we have two palaces. I am from the Dolma Phodrang and she is from the Phuntsok Phodrang, which is now in Seattle. She is extremely well-known, even in our Khön lineage history. There is one full chapter describing her life. She is a very great master. She traveled to Kham, the eastern […]
H. E. Dagyum Kusho, known by her friends as Dagmola, was born in eastern Tibet. Raised in a loving family of moderate affluence, her way of life and education were pervaded by the spirit of Buddhism. She was the wife of H.H. Dagchen Ngawang Kunga Sonam Jigdal, the previous head lama of the Sakya Phuntsok […]
Kyabgon Ngawang Kunga Tashi Trinley was born in 1934 during the wood-dog year. He is widely known as Kyabgon Kuzhon Rinpoche of Phuntsok Phodrang, the younger brother of Vajradhāra Kyabgon Jigdral Dagchen Rinpoche. Rinpoche is also known to be the incarnation of Dolma Phodrang’s Kyabgon Jamyang Thupten Zangpo. At the age of six, he received […]
His Eminence Khöndung Asanga Vajra Rinpoche is the son of H.E.Khöndung Ani Vajra Sakya Rinpoche, the second son of the Phuntsok Phodrang family and Dagmo Chimey la. He is also the youngest grandson of the His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Dorjechang Rinpoche and therefore a direct descendant of the unbroken Khön lineage which dates back to […]
His Eminence Khöndung Abhaya Vajra Sakya, the younger son of H.E. Zaya Vajra Sakya and Dagmo Lhanze Youden, was born in Seattle in 1997. At the age of 11, he joined his brother H.E. Avikrita Vajra Rinpoche in India to pursue his education in the Sakya tradition. At the age of 12, he expressed his […]
Avikrita Vajra Rinpoche was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1993 into the Phuntsok Phodrang, one of two branches of the Khön lineage, a Tibetan family whose ancestry can be traced back to the earliest origins of Buddhism in Tibet over a thousand years ago. The Khön family’s ancestral homeland is the town of Sakya in […]
His Holiness Dagchen Ngawang Kunga Sonam Jigdal was born to the fortieth Sakya throneholder, Trichen Ngawang Thutop Wangchuk, and Gyalyum Dechen Drolma in Sakya, Tibet. He did extensive studies of the sūtras and tantras under the lotus feet of his father as well as Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and other great masters […]