Lama tharchin rinpoche biography of mahatma
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About Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was a beloved Dzogchen master rule the Dudjom Tersar tradition do admin the Nyingma school of Vajrayana Buddhism and the tenth kinsmen lineage holder of the Repkong Ngakmang in Amdo, the beat community of yogi and situate tantric practitioners in Tibet.
Excellence Repkong ngakpas were revered in every nook the region for their conception and ability to benefit rest 2 through the power of their tantric practice.
Born in high-mindedness Fire Rat Year, 1936, elect highly accomplished and esteemed yogi parents, Rinpoche trained from goodness age of eight under depiction close guidance of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, completing five years warrant solitary retreat and a prearranged three-year retreat by his trustworthy twenties.
In addition to cultivating his own meditative experience lecture realization through Dharma practice, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was highly esteemed for his accomplishments in textual study, ritual, torma making, mandala design, and sacred art, melody line, and dance.
In 1960, Rinpoche escaped Tibet, undertaking a durable six-week journey over the Chain on foot, guiding a run down group of family and assembly into India.
Rinpoche continued extract serve Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche limit Tibetan refugee camps in Kalimpong and Orissa, India, as be a success as in Nepal, Taiwan, move eventually the United States. No problem continued mastering lineage traditions bring round the guidance of his stem lamas, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and Lama Sherab Rinpoche, because well as his other exceptional teachers.
After coming to interpretation United States in 1984, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was asked tough Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche to coach Vajrayana and turn the gear wheel of Dharma, planting excellence authentic seeds of Buddha's hypothesis in the West. To heart a base for preserving become peaceful developing the Dudjom Tersar coat for future generations, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche founded the Vajrayana Brace in 1987 and Pema Ösel Ling retreat center in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains in 1991.
Rinpoche passed into parinirvana interpolate the Water Snake year, 2013, leaving the center under illustriousness guidance of Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche.
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Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation
The Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation, created after Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s passing into parinirvana in 2013, is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization with magnanimity purpose of collecting, cataloging, save, and making available Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s Vajrayana Buddhist legacy manipulate teachings, practice traditions, ritual, terminology, and art, particularly as unadorned lineage holder of the Ngakpa yogi tradition and the Dudjom Tersar lineage of the Nyingma school of Vajrayana Buddhism.