Tulku Urgyen

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Tulku Urgyen

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche ( Tib .: sprul sku o rgyan rin po che ; * 1920 in Eastern Tibet ; † February 13, 1996 in Nepal ) was a Tibetan Buddhist Lama of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages who lived in the hermitage of Nagi Gompa in Nepal lived. He was recognized by the 15th Karmapa as the tulku of Chowang Tulku and as the tulku of Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (9th century; who founded the Ngagpa ( sngags pa ) tradition), a disciple of Padmasambhava . His main transmissions were the pointing-out instruction and the Chokling Tersar , a summary of all empowerments, textual authorizations and verbal instructions from Padmasambhava's teachings, which were rediscovered by Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa , his great-grandfather.

biography

Tulku Urgyen was born on the tenth day of the fourth Tibetan month in 1920. He studied and practiced the teachings of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

In the Nyingma tradition, Tulku Urgyen held the complete teachings of the three great masters of the last century: Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye .

Tulku Urgyen founded several monasteries and retreat centers in Nepal. The most important of these institutions in the area around Kathmandu are in Boudhanath , the site of the Great Stupa at the cave of Asura where Padmasambhava the Mahamudra - Vidyadhara plane manifest, and the stupa of Swayambhunath . He lived most of the time in the hermitage of Nagi Gompa above the valley of Kathmandu.

Tulku Urgyen was not a monk . Four of his six sons were recognized as tulkus : Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (as 7th Gar Drubchen ), Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche ( recognized and enthroned as Tulku of Chokgyur Lingpa by the 16th Karmapa ), Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche (as Tulku des Drubwang Tsoknyi recognized) and the 7th Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (recognized by the 16th Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse ).

In 1980, Tulku Urgyen, accompanied by his eldest son Chokyi Nyima, made a major international trip to Europe , the United States and Southeast Asia . Many teachings have been given on dzogchen and mahamudra. Since then, an annual seminar has been held at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery on general meditation , Dzogchen and Mahamudra in connection with the Madhyamaka view .

His reincarnation is believed to have been found in March 2006 with the four year old son of Chokling Rinpoche (known as Chokling von Neten, not to be confused with Tulku Urgyen's son, who is Chokling von Tsikey). He lives in the village of Bir in Himachal Pradesh and is called Urgyen Jigme Rabsel .

literature

  • Tulku Urgyen, Erik Pema Kunsang (transl.): Vajra Speech: Pith Instructions for the Dzogchen Yogi . Rangjung Yeshe Publications, Boudhanath 2001, ISBN 962-7341-44-4
  • Tulku Urgyen: Blazing Splendor: Memoirs of the Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche as told by Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt . Rangjung Yeshe Publications, Nepal 2005, ISBN 962-7341-56-8
  • Tulku Urgyen: "Rainbow Pictures" - Aspects of Dzogchen Practice . Arbor Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-924195-84-6 .
  • Tulku Urgyen: "As It Is" - Essence of Dzogchen and Mahamudra. Volume 1 . Joy-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-928554-76-3 .
  • Tulku Urgyen: "As It Is" - Essence of Dzogchen and Mahamudra. Volume 2 . Joy-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-928554-77-0 .

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