The Dzongsar Khyentse incarnation line is the primary incarnation line that originated with Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. It is based at Dzongsar Monastery in Kham.
Biographies
The Second Dzongsar Khyentse, Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
b.1893 - d.1959
Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro was one of the most influential religious teachers in Kham in the first half of the twentieth century. One of multiple reincarnations of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, he served as head of Dzongsar Monastery, which he enlarged, founding the monastic college, Khamshe, in 1918. Chokyi Lodro fled Kham in 1955 during the Communist takeover of Tibet, settling in Sikkim, where he passed away in 1959.
