Jamyang Keynote Chökyi Lodrö

Jamyang Keynote Chökyi Lodrö (1893-1959) was the founded of the Tibetan Rime or nonsectarian movement from eastern Tibet. He is sometimes known as Dzongsar Khyentse due to his affiliation with Dzongsar monastery in Khams.

At 15 he came abbot of Dzongsar monastery remaining his home for much of his life, though he frequently traveled learning from Kagyu, Sakya, and Nyingma teachers. At 56, he married and went into retreat in a hermitage above the monastery but continued to teach. In 1955, he made his final pilgrimage to sacred sites across Tibet then went to Sikkim, where he died in 1959. He served as a teacher to many of the 20th century’s greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters.

Taken from Princeton dictionary of Buddhism p 378-378.