Gyatrul rinpoche biography of donald
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Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
Tibetan rinpoche
Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche (Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche) is the head of the Trungram descent, and one of the highest tulkus of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He has received extensive transmissions of the Nyingma ancestry, and teaches in the spirit of the nonsectarian Rimé movement. He is also the first incarnate lama to earn a Ph.D. in the West, having completed a doctoral schema in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Harvard University. Gyalwa has founded organizations throughout Asia and United States which aims to modernize ancient Buddhist teachings.
Born into a NepaleseSherpa family, Gyalwa was recognized bygd Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa as the Fourth Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, the reincarnation of the third Trungram Gyalwa.
Birth and recognition
[edit]Trungram Gyalwa was born into a Nepalese guide family.
Some accounts speculate that Trungram Gyalwa had a tydlig abdomen as an infant, which led his parents
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Gyatrul Rinpoche
Gyatrul Rinpoche (1925-2023) was a senior lama of the Palyul lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Birth and Recognition
Born in the Gyalrong region of eastern Tibet in 1925, Gyatrul Rinpoche was recognized at a young age by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and Tulku Natsok Rangdrol as the incarnation of Sampa Künkyap, a Payul lineage meditator who spent his life in retreat and who later gave empowerments and transmissions from his retreat cave to multitudes of disciples.
Training
After being brought to Palyul Domang Monastery, home of his previous incarnation, the young Gyatrul was educated by his tutor, Sangye Gon. According to Gyatrul Rinpoche[1]:
- When I was a boy, I met my root guru, Tulku Natsok Rangdrol. He wanted me to learn to read and begin my dharma education, so he asked his uncle, Sangye Gön, to be my teacher. Tulku Natsok Rangdrol said, “Don’t beat this boy. He might have trouble learning, but always be patient with
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Gyatrul Rinpoche
Farber/Rinpoche,. "Gyatrul Rinpoche". Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters, edited by Don Farber, Sogyal Rinpoche and Rebecca McClen Novick, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, pp. 44-45. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520930537-018
Farber/Rinpoche (2006). Gyatrul Rinpoche. In D. Farber, S. Rinpoche & R. McClen Novick (Ed.), Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters (pp. 44-45). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520930537-018
Farber/Rinpoche. 2006. Gyatrul Rinpoche. In: Farber, D., Rinpoche, S. and McClen Novick, R. ed. Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 44-45. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520930537-018
Farber/Rinpoche,. "Gyatrul Rinpoche" In Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters edited by Don Farber, Sogyal Rinpoche and Rebecca McClen Novick, 44-45. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520930537-018
Farber/Rinpoche. Gyatrul