- practices. In Bhutan, and some
other parts of the Himalayas, the term
gomchen is the term most
often used to
refer to this type of
Vajrayana practitioner...
-
Gomchen Pema
Chewang Tamang (1918 – 13
March 1966) was a
Tibetan Buddhist scholar,
teacher and a
renounced practitioner. Born in Boomtar, Namchi, South...
- In late May, she went to Lachen,
where she met
Lachen Gomchen Rinpoche, the
superior (
gomchen) of the town's monastery, with the
improvised interpreter...
-
Eastern Tibet Pema
Trinle (1874–1950),
teacher of the
Sakya tradition Gomchen Pema
Chewang Tamang (1918–1966),
Sikkimese Buddhist scholar Pema Chödrön...
- lay
clergy and lay
tantric specialists, such as
Ngagpas (Skt. mantrī),
Gomchens, Serkyims, and Chödpas (practitioners of Chöd).
According to Samuel, in...
-
monastic lobdras,
where teachers received official stipends and
where gomchens (young lay priests) studied. By 2006,
there were also 10 nunneries, started...
-
Government of Sikkim.
Retrieved 24
February 2018.
Appeal from the
Lachen Gomchen Rinpoche to
protect the
Rathong Chu and Bum-Chu
rivers Lachen 'Ngodub Choling'...
-
Indian civil servant Chewang Rinchen (1931–1997),
Indian Army
officer Gomchen Pema
Chewang Tamang (1918–1966),
Tibetan Buddhist scholar Pema Chewang...
-
which is held in the main temple, is
recited here in its
entirety by
gomchens who come here from
their meditation centre at Gogona, in the Phobjikha...
- The
abbot was the
religious head, but the
secular ruler was a
Gompa or
Gomchen. With rare
exceptions this was a
hereditary position within the
Kyura clan...
