Tarthang tulku biography
Tarthang tulku biography
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Tarthang Tulku
Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche (Tibetan: དར་ཐང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Wylie: Dar-thang Sprul-sku Rin-po-che) (born 1934) is a TibetanVajrayana teacher and lama who introduced the Nyingma school tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to the United States.[1][2] Tarthang Tulku works to preserve the buddhadharma, the art and the culture of Tibet.
He oversees various projects including Dharma Publishing, Yeshe-De, Tibetan Aid Project,[3] the annual Nyingma school Monlam Chenmo World Peace Ceremony in Bodhgaya,[4] and the construction of the Odiyan Copper Mountain Mandala.
Tarthang Tulku also introduced Kum Nye to the West.[5]
Biography
As one of the last remaining lamas to have received a complete Buddhist education in pre-1959 Tibet,[2] Tarthang Tulku left Tibet and taught in Benares, India,[2] until emigrating to the United States of America in 1969[2] with his wife, the poet Nazli Nour.
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