Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
| Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche | |
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| Religion |
Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu Nyingma |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | Nepalese |
| Born | 1920 Tibet |
| Died | February 13, 1996 |
| Senior posting | |
| Title |
Tulku Rinpoche |
| Successor | His four sons |
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| Reincarnation | Chowang Tulku |
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920 - February 13, 1996) (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: sprul-sku o-rgyan rin-po-che) (Nepali: टुल्कु उर्ग्येन् रिन्पोचे). A contemporary Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages, who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal, Urgyen Rinpoche was considered one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of our time.
Born in Eastern Tibet in Kham, in 1920, he was recognized by Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama as both the reincarnation of the Chowang Tulku and Nubchen Sangye Yeshe, one of the twenty-five principal students of Padmasambhava.
Rinpoche's father was Tsangsar Chimey Dorje, a vajrayana instructor who began giving Rinpoche transmission for the Kangyur, the Buddha, and "The New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa." As he grew older, he studied Dzogchen with Samten Gyatso.
He had four sons, each of whom is now an important Buddhist teacher in his own right: Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche as well as two grandsons: Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's Yangsi.
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