Gendün Rinchen

Gendün Rinchen was born in 1926 at Paro, in a small cave beside the path that climbs to the monastery of Taktsang, hence his nickname Drakphukpa, the man of the cave, and the name Geshe Chaphu under which his English translator cites him. A Buddhist scholar, he compiled this collection of narratives and songs in 1966. Enthroned in 1990 as the sixty-ninth Je Khenpo, head of the monastic clergy of Bhutan, he died in 1997 at Yangchenphug, in the Thimphu valley.

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• NarrativeThe Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley'Gro ba'i mgon po chos rje kun dga' legs pa'i rnam thar rgya mtsho'i snying po mthong ba don ldanGendün Rinchen · 1966Literature