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In the News (Wed 16 Dec 09)

  
  Tsoknyi Rinpoche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tsoknyi Rinpoche III was recognized by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa as the reincarnation of Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche I. He is a renowned master of the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma traditions and the lineage holder of the Ratna Lingpa Lineage and the Tsoknyi Lineage.
Rinpoche is the abbot of Ngesdon Osel Ling Monastery in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
Rinpoche is the abbot of two nunneries in Nepal, as well as the abbot of 55 nunneries and monasteries in Tibet, where more than 3,000 nuns practice in life retreat under his guidance.
www.pundarika.org /tsoknyi_rinpoche.htm   (1124 words)

  
 Welcome to Rigpa
Sogyal Rinpoche gave the name 'Rigpa' to his work and to the vehicle he was developing to serve the Buddha's teaching in the west.
Born in Kham in Eastern Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche was recognized as the incarnation of Lerab Lingpa Tertön Sogyal, a teacher to the thirteenth Dalai Lama, by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, one of the most outstanding spiritual masters of the twentieth century.
Rinpoche is also the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa, an international network of 106 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world.
www.rigpa.org   (327 words)

  
 rinpoche
One day when the young Rinpoche was in the company of some relative children, playing, he picked up the sword, and commenting on the non-virtues of violence, tied the long blade into a knot as if it was a mere rope, rendering the powerful weapon impotent.
Rinpoche was shocked to see the total destruction of his monasteries and the absence of monastic education in his region.
Rinpoche was offered the positions of abbottship by many monasteries and nunneries but unfortunately the political situation in China made it impossible for him to fulfill these requests.
www.b-i-a.net /rinpoche.htm   (2377 words)

  
 Rinpoche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rinpoche or Rimpoche (Tibetan:རིན་པོ་ཆེ་; /rin'potʃe/) is a Tibetan Buddhist religious/theological honorific title.
Rinpoche is used as a respectful form of address to ones teacher.
It is a mistaken assumption that the term Rinpoche indicates an incarnate Lama; although all incarnate Lamas are called Rinpoche by their students [5].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rinpoche   (263 words)

  
 Biography of The Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche
The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars of his generation in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Rinpoche has dedicated himself to the preservation of traditional buddhist traditions in the East, and to the support the establishment of a genuine transmission of Buddhism to the West.
Rinpoche received Buddhist refuge and bodhisattva vows from His Holiness at an early age, and was ordained as a novice monk in 1974.
www.nalandabodhi.org /dpr_bio.html   (986 words)

  
 Simhanada---His Eminence Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Tibet, Rinpoche was known as Tsurphu Gyaltsab Rinpoche, because Rinpoche was the Regent of the Karmapa at Tsurphu monastery.
In the past, Rinpoche incarnated as Ananda, the disciple of the Buddha Shakyamuni who had perfect memory and was responsible for reciting all of the sutras (teachings) of the Buddha before the assembly.
Like Situ Rinpoche, Gyaltsab Rinpoche is one of the main teachers of HH the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa and already has bestowed transmissions (such as the Rinchen Terdzo) to His Holiness.
www.simhas.org /gyaltsab.html   (725 words)

  
 Sakya Monastery
In 1959 Dagchen Rinpoche, his wife H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya, and their family were forced to flee to India, where Dagchen Rinpoche became the Sakya representative to the Tibetan Religious Office in Exile, which was instrumental in arranging for the resettlement of Tibetan refugees.
Trinly Rinpoche's education was the traditional one for members of the Khon lineage - it began with the transmission of a Manjushri empowerment from his father, underscoring the close connection between Manjushri and the Sakya hierarchs.
When Deshung Rinpoche was eighteen, he was recognized by the officials of the Deshung Monastery to be the third rebirth of Deshung Lungrig Nyima, and was accorded the appropriate wealth, position, and quarters in the monastery.
www.sakya.org /Lamas.htm   (2414 words)

  
 The Venerable S. Chusang Rinpoche
Rinpoche is spiritual head and director of Chusang Monastery, now based in Kathmandu, and it is there that he spends most of his time.
Rinpoche was elected as Vice President of the International Gelug Society's Executive Committee at the first International Gelug Conference held in March 1999.
Despite the success of Rinpoche has had over the years in bringing about much needed improvements in the living standards of his monks, there is always a need for support, both financial and spiritual, especially as further development work is required.
www.geocities.com /chusang_rinpoche   (1636 words)

  
   Garchen Buddhist Institute     
Garchen Rinpoche was recognized and enthroned in eastern Tibet by the former Drikung Kyabgon Zhiwe Lodro.
Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of the Garchen Buddhist Institute in Chino Valley, Arizona.
Khenpo Sherab Oser Rinpoche received monastic ordination at a young age, and was recognized by H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche as a reincarnate lama in the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
www.garchen.net /teachers.html   (1590 words)

  
 Ven. Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche
Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was born in 1926 in the Amdo region of eastern Tibet.
Rinpoche holds a unique lineage of explanation of the main commentary to the Kalachakra tantra (Stainless Light or Vimalaprabha), and as such is one of the lineage lamas from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Rinpoche is a very important lineage holder in the Kalachakra tradition, as after the invasion of the Chinese in 1959, he was the only living Master who held a rare lineage of the 'Vimalaprabha'; a very important Kalachakra text.
kalachakranet.org /kirti_tsenshab_rinpoche.html   (2035 words)

  
 Simhanada--- Most Venerable Bokar Rinpoche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
okar Rinpoche was born in western Tíbet in 1940 to a family of nomads not far from Mount Kailash.
When Rinpoche was four years old, His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa recognized him as the reincarnation of the previous Bokar Tulku Karma Sherab Ösel.
Rinpoche was first educated in the monastery founded by his previous incarnation.
www.simhas.org /bokar.html   (432 words)

  
 Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship - Shechen
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, born in 1966, is the grandson and spiritual heir of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, a unique Buddhist meditation master who was the most eminent modern day proponent of the non-sectarian or Rimed tradition.
Despite his youth, Rabjam Rinpoche created an administration and organization within the monk community that is a model of education, joyful discipline, humanitarian activity, and attention to authentic ceremonies and practice.
Rinpoche is overseeing the education and upbringing of Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche, the young incarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
www.shechen.org /sub_teachers_rr.html   (501 words)

  
 Mingyur Rinpoche
The VIIth Mingyur Dorje Rinpoche was born in Nubri, Nepal in 1976, the son of Sonam Chodron a descendent of King Trison Deutsen, and Urgyen Tulku Rinpoche of Chogyur Lingpa's lineage.
Rinpoche seems to be fiddling with two flowers in the glass on his desk, and one falls out.
Rinpoche, again monitoring his words, this time for possible misinterpretation adds: "Afterwards, in post-meditation, it is necessary to know that Buddha-hood is to be achieved, and the hell realm to be avoided.
www.khandro.net /lama_MingyurDorje.htm   (2703 words)

  
 KCC: Kalu Rinpoche
When Kalu Rinpoche was fifteen years old, he was sent to begin his higher studies at the great monastery of Palpung, the foremost center of the Karma Kagyu school.
At age twenty-six, Rinpoche left Palpung to pursue the life of a solitary yogi in the woods of the countryside of Kham, Tibet.
Rinpoche's simple and direct style of teaching resulted from the need to bring the living experience of the Buddha's teaching to those who had not benefited from the sophisticated educational program of the monastic system.
www.kcc.org /lineage/kalu_rinpoche.html   (546 words)

  
 Karma Triyana Dharmachakra - The Third Bardor Tulku Rinpoche
Rinpoche was quite young when the family left East Tibet on a journey that took them first to Lhasa and then on to Tsurphu.
Rinpoche and his young friend fled the attack and walked continuously for a day and a half.
During the years 1985 through 1987 Rinpoche spent many months in Nepal supervising the construction of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra's statues and ornaments: the Buddha rupa, the deer and Dharmachakra, the Gengura spire for the top of the monastery, and the Sixteen Arhats for the library shrine.
www.kagyu.org /karmapa/tea/tea14.html   (1174 words)

  
 Biography of The Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche
Rinpoche was greeted by a magnificent welcome party of lamas, monks and laymen; all overjoyed to see the Dzogchen Rinpoche return to Tibet.
Rinpoche was able to meet with all the head lamas of his branch monasteries, and he made pilgrimage to many of the regions sacred sites.
Rinpoche enjoyed study very much and between 1986 and 1989 his time was split between working on the monastery and studying Madhyamaka philosophy in Dharamsala.
www.dzogchen.org.in /rinpoche/biography.html   (620 words)

  
 Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche was the first to bring the precious Bon Dzogchen teachings to the West in 1988, when he was invited by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche to Italy in order to teach at his center.
Rinpoche is a well-known master, having traveled widely, giving teachings in Tibet and in the West for the past ten years.
Tenzin Rinpoche is the author of Wonders of the Natural Mind, in which he presents the view and practice of the Bon Dzogchen ("Great Perfection") teachings, and he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for 1994-95 to conduct academic research on the logical and philosophical aspects of the Bon tradition.
www.ligmincha.org /twr/twr.html   (566 words)

  
 Venerable Choden Rinpoche
Born in 1933 in eastern Tibet, Choden Rinpoche was recognized at age three as the reincarnation of the previous Rinpoche, who himself had been one of the candidates for the twelfth Dalai Lama.
Choden Rinpoche decided to study the teachings on Vinaya – monastic discipline – and is regarded as one of the foremost experts on the subject.
Choden Rinpoche was one of the two Sera Je lamas selected to debate with His Holiness the Dalai Lama during His Holiness's geshe exams.
www.fpmt.org /teachers/choden.asp   (224 words)

  
 Biography | Rinpoche | Amnyi Trulchung Rinpoche
The Fifth Amnyi Trulchung Rinpoche was born in 1970, amid many auspicious signs, and was soon recognised as the reincarnation of the Fourth Amnyi Trulchung Rinpoche of the Ju Mohar Monastery of Tibet.
Rinpoche was later invited to visit New Zealand, where he gathered a group of students to form the Rigdzin Bumtsog Trust.
Rinpoche is committed to developing a Buddhist College of Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche at Ju Mohar, to be known as 'Mipham Dongag Rigpe Gyatsal.' His first project, with help from his western students, is to build a school for orphans and children of one-parent families and to establish a clinic for local people at Junyong.
www.amnyitrulchung.org /rinpoche/biography   (520 words)

  
 Sogyal Rinpoche
Inspired by this, Sogyal Rinpoche gave the name 'Rigpa' to his work and to the vehicle he was developing to serve the Buddha's teaching in the west.
Born in Kham in Eastern Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche was recognized as the incarnation of Lerab Lingpa Tertön Sogyal, a teacher to the thirteenth Dalai Lama, by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, one of the most outstanding masters of the twentieth century.
Rinpoche has been teaching for over 30 years and continues to travel widely in Europe, America, Australia, and Asia, where he addresses thousands of people on his teaching tours and is a frequent speaker at major conferences.
www.spcare.org /about/sogyalrinpoche.html   (422 words)

  
 Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. A short autobiography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Rinpoche was born in Thami, Nepal, in 1946.
At the age of ten, Rinpoche went to Tibet and studied and meditated at Domo Geshe Rinpoche’s monastery near Pagri, until the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959 forced him to forsake Tibet for the safety of Bhutan.
Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Thami, not far from the cave, Lawudo, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, where his predecessor meditated for the last twenty years of his life.
www.lamayeshe.com /lamazopa/bio_lzr.shtml   (4555 words)

  
 Ato Rinpoche
Rinpoche pointed out that the determination of future rebirths or tulku was a practice initiated by the first Karmapa in order to demonstrate the efficacy of meditation and not for any other reason.
Rinpoche advised the person to keep the door open, so as not to shut out the other member(s) of the household but to veil images used in tantric practices.
At Rinpoche's request, the teaching ended with the singing of Calling the Lama From Afar led by Lama Chokey Gyaltsen whose beautiful, resonant baritone voice was especially strong and clear.
www.khandro.net /lama_Ato.htm   (3631 words)

  
 Arjia Rinpoche (Gegeen) of Kumbum Monastery, Khukh Nuur
Rinpoche (Gegeen in Mongolian) is one of the most important religious leaders to leave Tibet since the Dalai Lama fled into exile in 1959.
Fortunately, two of his most important teachers; Jayak Rinpoche (tutor to Panchen Lama) and Tsultrim Lhaksem (tutor to the elder brother of his Holiness the Dalai Lama) were in his commune, which made it easier for him to receive teaching.
Rinpoche teaches Je Lama Tsong-kha-pa's LamRim (Stage of the Path) in Chinese with English translation at the center.
www.arjiagegeen.com   (883 words)

  
 Lineage and Teachers - Chokling Tersar Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was born in 1966 in Kathmandu, Nepal, to the family of the mahasiddha Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who holds the Tsangsar Family Lineage, a special family lineage of tantric yogis which, by tradition, originated through the union of a deva and a human.
The second Tsoknyi Rinpoche was born into the family of the King of Nangchen in the first half of this century and received the teachings of Naropa from the 7th Khamtrul Rinpoche to whom he had transmitted the teachings in his previous incarnation.
The present Tsoknyi Rinpoche was recognised by H. Karmapa XVI at the age of eight.
www.choklingtersar.org /teachers/tsoknyi.htm   (382 words)

  
 Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche - Tashi Choling Center for Buddhist Studies
Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche was born in 1924 in China near the Tibetan border.
Rinpoche was trained at Payul Dhomang Monastery in eastern Tibet by such adepts as Sangye Gon, Tulku Natsok Rangdrol, Payul Chogtrul Rinpoche, and Apkong Khenpo.
Rinpoche spent many years in solitary retreat with his root guru Tulku Natsog, moving from one isolated location to another.
www.tashicholing.org /gyatrul_rinpoche_bio.htm   (493 words)

  
 Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
H. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche (1930-2002) belongs to the last generation of teachers to have been fully trained in Tibet in the vast wealth of Vajrayana teachings and methods.
During the next twenty years, in various refugee camps and settlements, Rinpoche served as lama who administered to the refugees’ spiritual needs, as a camp leader who organized work projects, and as a physician Tibetan medicine.
Rinpoche’s work is maintained by Chagdud Gonpa Foundation in North America, by Chagdud Gonpa Brasil, and by Chagdud Gonpa Hispanoamerica in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
www.chagdud.org /en/rinpoche/index.html   (244 words)

  
 Karma Triyana Dharmachakra - The Ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
Rinpoche escaped with his party to Bhutan and from there to Rumtek, the headquarters of His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa in Sikkim.
Rinpoche is the spiritual director of E-Vam Institute in Melbourne, Australia; Nyima Tashi in Auckland, New Zealand; and other affiliated centers.
On the occasion of Traleg Rinpoche's first visit to KTD, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche dictated an introduction that was presented to the centers on his arrival.
www.kagyu.org /karmapa/tea/tea06.html   (354 words)

  
 Venerable Khandro Rinpoche
The Venerable Khandro Rinpoche is the daughter of His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen who is head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most renowned Tibetan Lamas currently alive today.
Rinpoche maintains a rigorous schedule, teaching from both the Kagyu and Nyingma tradtions in the USA including Hawaii, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Greece.
Rinpoche is also Resident Teacher at the Lotus Garden Retreat Center in rural Virginia, USA, which she established to provide retreat practice, the study of crucial Buddhist texts, and visiting teachers from all lineages.
www.vkr.org /biography.cfm   (392 words)

  
 Nalandabodhi | Welcome
Rinpoche is an adept in the Buddhist science of mind and versed in the nuances of modern day cultures, both East and West.
Rinpoche is also the driving force behind the development of nalandabodhi.org and related websites.
Rinpoche is one of the Abbots of Dzogchen Monastery.
www.nalandabodhi.org /the_dzogchen_ponlop_rinpoche.html   (296 words)

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