Dhardo Rimpoche
Thubten Lhundup Legsang | |
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Gelugpa lineage) | |
Predecessor | Dhardo Tulku, 11th tulku of Dorje Drak Gompa |
Successor | Tenzin Legshad Wangdi (2nd Dhardo Tulku in the Gelugpa lineage) |
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Dhardo Rinpoche (1917-1990), born Thubten Lhundup Legsang, was the 12th in a line of tulkus from Dhartsendo on the eastern border of Tibet who hailed from the Nyingma Gompa in Dhartsendo called Dorje Drak (not to be confused with Dorje Drak in Central Tibet). The 11th tulku rose to the Abbot of Drepung and during the 1912 invasion of Tibet by China was the most senior of the retired abbots in the National Assembly. He died in 1916 and the 12th Tulku was born in 1917.[1]
Dhardo Rinpoche was educated in the traditional
During the 1950s and 1960s Dhardo Rinpoche was friend and teacher to Sangharakshita, an English Buddhist who spent 14 years based in Kalimpong before returning to England to found the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), now the Triratna Buddhist Community. Sangharakshita considered Dhardo Rinpoche to be a living bodhisattva and he is still revered as such in the Triratna Community. In the 1980s the FWBO's charity Aid For India (now known as the Karuna Trust (UK))[3] undertook to provide funding for the ITBCI School.
Portions of Dhardo Rinpoche's relics, the ashes from his cremation, have been installed in several
Dhardo Rinpoche's motto was: "Cherish the doctrine; live united; radiate love",[4][5] which also became the motto of the school he founded. He was concerned especially to teach the children at his school that "actions have consequences".
The thirteenth in the line of Tulkus, Tenzin Legshad Wangdi, was born in 1991 and still goes by the name of Dhardo Tulku.[6]
References
- ISBN 0-904766-48-9, pp. 29-37
- ^ ITBCI
- ^ Karuna History & Achievements
- ISBN 1-899579-26-5, pp. 97-110
- ^ "Dharmalife Magazine, issue 24". Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
- ^ ITBCI - information on founder
Further reading
- Suvajra, The Wheel and the Diamond : The Life of Dhardo Tulku (Windhorse Publications, 1991) ISBN 0-904766-48-9
- Sara Hagel (ed), Dhardo Rinpoche : A Celebration (Windhorse Publications, 2000) ISBN 1-899579-26-5
External links
- Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Institute
- Meetings with Dhardo Rinpoche (video)
- Audio talks about Rinpoche
- A glimpse of light - an account of meeting Dhardo Rinpoche by a Western Buddhist
- Photos of stupas which contain Dhardo Rinpoche's relics
- More photos of the Sudarsanaloka stupa
- Photo of Dhardo Stupa at Padmaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre
- Another photo of Dhardo's Stupa at Padmaloka
- Karuna, charity work in india
- (German) info about the new stupa with Dhardo's ashes at Vimaladhatu[permanent dead link]