Situ Panchen (1700–1774), whose formal name is the 8th Tai Situ Panchen Chögyi Jungnye (Tibetan: སི་ཏུ་པན་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འབྱུང་གནས, Wylie: si tu pan chen chos kyi 'abyung gnas), was the renown 8th Tai Situ Rinpoche. He was also an influential Tibetan painter, writer and medical innovator as well as a notable figure in the histories of Karma Kagyu and the Kingdom of Dêgê, where he served as senior court chaplain.

The birth of the 8th Tai Situ, Chokyi Jungne was recorded in many different texts and in literature, and many great masters made the prophecies of his arrival. For example, the 11th Karmapa, Yeshe Dorje, predicted the place where Chokyi Jungne was born.

The 8th Kenting Tai Situ, Chokyi Jungne (1700–1774), was born in the province of A-Lo Shega at Atarong, which corresponded to the prophecy. His father was Ngawang Tsering and his mother Tranguma.

When Chokyi Jungne was born, Lama Kunchen, a master of the Treasure Transmission Lineage, performed the Dorje Drolo ceremony for him and gave him the name "Gonpo Sun".

At the age of two, Lama Kunchen took him to Tsurphu monastery to see the 11th Karmapa. The Karmapa gave Lama Kunchen a silk bag full of big black pills, a pearl with no eye, and a prophecy letter written "Situ, the golden dragon, born at A-Lo". The 11th Karmapa asked Lama Kunchen to offer all these to the incarnation of Kenting Tai Situ. Chokyi Jungne in consequence was recognized to be the incarnation of the 7th Kenting Tai Situ.

At the age of five, Chokyi Jungne began to learn to read and write Tibetan from his father, and performed a Vajravarahi (Dorje pagmo, Vajra Yogini) ceremony taught by Lama Kunchen.

At the age of seven, the 8th Shamar Chokyi Dondrup conferred a longevity prayer and conferred the name "Situ Chokyi Jungne Trinley Kunkyab Palzangpo".

At the age of eight, Chokyi Jungne visited the 12th Karmapa Changchub Dorje.