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Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Ven. Tsoknyi, Rinpoche

ཚོགས་གཉིས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
tshogs gnyis rin po che

Short History

~*Present Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a reincarnate lama educated in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He has been teaching students from around the world since 1990.

a brief biography

Tsoknyi Rinpoche was recognized by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa as a reincarnation of Drubwang Tsoknyi, a renowned master of the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma traditions. Later he was brought up by the great master Khamtrul Rinpoche. Among his other teachers are Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, his late father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Adeu Rinpoche of Nangchen, and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. Rinpoche is the head of the Drukpa Heritage Project to preserve the literature of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage. He is also the abbot of Ngedon Ösel Ling in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal.

Tsoknyi Rimpoche the third is an important lama of both the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. He was born in 1966 in Kathmandu, Nepal, to the family of the mahasiddha Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who holds the Tsangsar Family Lineage, a

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This interview was conducted by Guy Armstrong, Sally Clough, Wes Nisker, Barbara Gates, Mary Ann Clark and Terry Vandiver in Woodacre, California.

I first met Tsoknyi Rinpoche in 1993, when he was leading a nine-day meditation retreat in the practice known as Dzogchen. At that time he was twenty-seven years old. As you might know, sometimes during silent meditation retreats people can look very grim and determined. One day when I was walking down the hall and passed Rinpoche, he just reached out and tickled me in the ribs. He had that kind of playfulness and joy throughout the retreat. In fact, one of his opening meditation instructions was: “Be happy, be cheerful.”

Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s teachings of Buddhadharma were among the clearest and most profound that I had ever heard and I wondered how such teachings could come from a twenty-seven-year-old body and mind. I came to understand this better after hearing Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s history. He is considered to be the third in a line of reincarnate lamas, the first of whom was a lama in Eastern Tibet in the last century. The

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Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author

Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Wylietshogs gnyis rin po che) or Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso (born 13 March 1966) is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author, and the founder of the Pundarika Foundation. He is the third Tsoknyi Rinpoche, having been recognized by the 16th Karmapa as the reincarnation of Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche.^[1] He is a tulku of the Drukpa Kagyü and Nyingma traditions and the holder of the Ratna Lingpa and Tsoknyi lineages.^[1], and a son of great master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.

At the age of thirteen, he began his education at Khampagar Monastery at Tashi Jong in Himachal Pradesh, India.^[2] His main teachers are Khamtrul Rinpoche Dongyu Nyima, his father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche and Adeu Rinpoche.^[1]

Rinpoche has overseen the Tergar Osel Ling Monastery, founded in Kathmandu, Nepal by his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. His brothers are Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, and Mingyur Rinpoche and his nephews are Phakchok Rin