Khenpo Shenga

[1] Khenpo Shenga he undertook religious study at a relatively young age under the tutelage of Önpo Tenzin Norbu.

Eventually he was recognized as an incarnation of that lama's uncle, a scholar named Gyalsé Shenphen Thayé.

[1] From Dzogchen he went to Palpung monastery at the behest of Tai Situ Rinpoche, where he composed his best known works and established a shedra.

A few years later he was invited by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö to become the first khenpo of the new shedra at Dzongsar Monastery, inaugurated in 1918.

Khenpo Shenga is remembered for his annotated commentaries on the thirteen primary texts of the Nyingma shedra curriculum, which are now the standard.