Terton Zilnon Namka Dorje was a treasure revealer from Kham who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was considered an emanation of the translator Vairocana and Nanam Dudjom Dorje—two of Padmasambhava's twenty-five close disciples. He is best remembered now as an important teacher to Dudjom Rinpoche, who credited him with deepening and expanding his meditative realization.
Rahor Khenpo Tubten Rinpoche was a Nyingma lama who trained in religious craftsmanship at Rahor Monastery in Ganze before leaving Tibet in 1959 and settling in Rhode Island. Among his students was the American photographer and nun Marylin Silverstone. In the last two decades of his life, he supervised the rebuilding of Rahor.
Bhikkhu Aniruddha Mahathera was a twentieth-century Newar Theravāda Buddhist monk. Like his father, who was ordained under the name Dhammāloka, he played a significant role in spreading the Theravada tradition in Nepal. For most of his life he was the resident caretaker of the royal Theravada monastery in Lumbini, where he was a neighbor and friend of Chogye Trichen. Late in life he was honored with the title Patriarch of Nepal by the local Theravada community.
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