Kawa Paltseg ({{bo, t=སྐ་བ་དཔལ་བརྩེགས, w=ska ba dpal brtsegs, alternate spelling ''Kawa Peltseg'') was one of the twenty-five disciples of

Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from India who may have taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According ...

(Padmasambhava) during the Tibetan Empire period. He was born in Kawa in Phenpo Valley. He was one of the seven monks ordained by the great abbot Śāntarakṣita (Shantarakshita) and became one of the greatest Tibetan translators in accordance with a prophecy by

. He was one of the most important contributors to the translation of the Tibetan Tripitaka and the Nyingma Gyübum. "Kawa" is a place name and "Paltseg" means "Mountain of resplendence."

References

Kawa Paltseg at www.rigpawiki.org

Kawa Peltseg at www.treasuryoflives.org

Kawa Paltseg at rywiki.tsadra.org
* http://www.kamalashila.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=482&Itemid=270&lang=en Year of birth missing Year of death missing Tibetan Buddhist monks

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