Neten Chokling
Neten Chokling Rinpoche (Wylie gnas brtan mchog gling rin po che), born August 10, 1973 at Wangdue Phodrang District in Bhutan, also referred as to the Fourth Neten Chokling Rinpoche,
Life
Neten Chokling was born August 10, 1973 in a modest family in Wandipodzong, in Bhutan. He was recognized by the 16th Karmapa as well as Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as being the reincarnation of Neten Chokling Pema Gyurme. Karmapa named him Gyurme Dorje. At the age of 7, he was taken to his monastery, Pema Ewam Chögar Gyurme Ling, in Bir, and enthroned by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in Clement Town at the monastery Ngedön Gatsal Ling. Before arriving in his home monastery, he was enthroned in Rumtek, Sikkim, by the Karmapa. He has received the transmissions of the Kangyur, Nyingma Gyübum, Nyingma Kama, Rinchen Terdzö, and Chokling Tersar as well as many other teachings from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Neten Chokling is one the fourth reincarnation of Chokgyur Lingpa [1][2] This lineage traces back Trisong Detsen, a Tibetan king who invited Padmasambhava to Tibet.[3]
He is the father of Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche.
He acted in Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's films The Cup in 1999, and Travellers and Magicians en 2003. In 2006, he directed his own first film, Milarepa. It has been seen in several countries, and will soon be seen in France, in Paris.[4] The film is the first part about the adventurous formative years of the legendary buddhist mystic, Milarepa (1052-1135) who is one of the most widely known Tibetan Saints, but whom set out for vengeance and retribution. In this film, among other, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, who played the wife of Peter Aufschnaiter in Seven Years in Tibet and the mother of Tinle's son in Himalaya : L'Enfance d'un chef.
Source
- ^ The Neten Chokling incarnation line, as told by Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche
- ^ Chokling Incarnation Line
- ^ Milarepa – The Mystic Saint of Tibet Now on Screen
- ^ Milarépa, la voie du bonheur (VO.STF), website of Première (magazine)