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Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche (b. 1924)

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche is one of the most venerated and respected masters in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and without doubt one of the most important lamas of our time. He is one of the teachers of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to whom he regularly transmits rare teachings of which he is holder, and especially those of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). Trulshik Rinpoche was born in 1924, in the year of the Wood Rat, in a place called Yardrok Taklung, in central Tibet. At a very young age, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the great tertön Do-ngak Lingpa and is also regarded as the emanation of other major masters of Tibet and India. Throughout his life, Trulshik Rinpoche has studied with the great masters of his time, receiving a complete traditional education.

At the time of the invasion by the Communist Chinese troops, Trulshik Rinpoche left Tibet and settled in the north of Nepal, just south of Everest, in the secluded border region of Solukhumbu, where he founded the monastery of Thubten Chöling, now home to a flourishing community of monks, nuns and lay practitioners. He spent many years in retreat there.

Trulshik Rinpoche was one of the closest disciples of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and is now one of the foremost masters of the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche predicted that Trulshik Rinpoche would become his spiritual heir, and placed great confidence in him, entrusting him with important responsibilities. Upon Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's passing in 1991, his disciples turned to Trulshik Rinpoche for help in finding his reincarnation.

Now well into his eighties, Trulshik Rinpoche still visits the West every year, particularly France, to give teachings to fortunate students. Having spent over sixty years in practice and retreat, Trulshik Rinpoche now dedicates an important part of his time to transmitting the lineage to a younger generation in order to preserve the precious living tradition of the Buddhist teachings.

In 2004, Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche initiated two important projects: a new monastery in the valley of Kathmandu, and a monastic institute in Lumbini (the birthplace of the Buddha). The new monasteries will offer shelter to hundreds of monks, nuns and newly arriving Tibetan refugees who want to dedicate themselves to the study and practice of Buddhist philosophy under his guidance.

Learn more about the KRF's projects in the construction of Tibetan monasteries.

 

 

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Biographies of Chanteloube's other founding teachers:

• His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
• Dudjom Rinpoche
• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
• Kangyur Rinpoche
• Jetsün Jampa Chökyi

 

Brief biographies of the spiritual directors:

• Pema Wangyal Rinpoche
• Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche
• Rangdröl Rinpoche