Ringu Tulku

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Ringu Tulku ( Tib . : ri mgul sprul sku ; * 1952 in Kham ) is a Tibetan lama and scholar .

Life

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a monk and Buddhist scholar of all four great Tibetan Buddhist schools of Vajrayana , particularly in the Tibetan Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings.

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche was born in Kham in 1952. Between 1957 and 1959 he and his family fled to India from the People's Liberation Army . Since then he has lived in Sikkim .

He was recognized as the tulku of the abbot of Rigul Monastery and raised accordingly from early childhood. Ringu Tulku received extensive training from many great masters from all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His main teachers were the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche .

In addition, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche also completed an academic degree. He studied at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok and the Sampurnananda Sanskrit University in Varanasi , India, where he received an Acharya degree . For his extensive work on Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye and the Rime movement, the International Nyingma Society founded by Dudjom Rinpoche awarded him the title of Lopon Chenpo , which corresponds to a doctorate.

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has studied and practiced all four main branches of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a professor of Tibetology and Buddhism in Gangtok for 17 years.

Since 1990 he has regularly visited numerous Buddhist centers in Europe , the United States , Canada , Australia and Asia . A special concern of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is the interreligious dialogue in order to contribute to understanding, tolerance and peace in the world. He is the founder of the Bodhicharya Organization (see also Bodhicharyavatara ).

Quotes

  • Non-communication breeds misunderstanding.
  • Ignorance is the most fertile ground for growing doubts and misconceptions.

RINGU TULKU: THE RIME (RIS-MED) MOVEMENT OF JAMGON KONGTRUL THE GREAT

  • If, by trying to understand the truth, you dispel the misunderstandings of some people and thereby some philosophies are damaged - that cannot be taken as criticizing the views of others.

CHANDRA KIRTI: MADHYAMIKA AVATARA

All quotations are taken from Ringu Tulku's lecture mentioned below

Works

German

  • together with Robert Nairn: Live, Dream, Die. The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Western Psychology . Theseus, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3896202260
  • Refuge. Discover meaning and path . Bodhicharya Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-937457-13-5 (from the Lazy Lama series no.3 )
  • Buddhist mediation . Bodhicharya Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009562-4 (from the Lazy Lama series no.1)
  • The jewel of the dragon. Fairy tales from Tibet . Theseus, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89620-121-2
  • Pu-chung's adventure in Tibet . Arbor, Freiamt 1997, ISBN 978-3924195311 (picture story)

English

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dudjomphotos ( Memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Lecture by Ringu Tulku at "7th CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TIBETAN STUDIES, June, 1995"
  3. ↑ Contents (Engl.)

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personal data
SURNAME Ringu Tulku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ringu Tulke Rinpoche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tibetan lama and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kham