Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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School | Kagyu Nyingma |
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Successor | His four sons |
Reincarnation | Chowang Tulku |
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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920
Life
Born in
Urgyen's father was Tsangsar Chimey Dorje, a vajrayana instructor who began giving Urgyen transmission for the Kangyur, the Buddha, and "The New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa."[3] As he grew older, he studied Dzogchen with Samten Gyatso.[3]
He had four sons, each of whom is now an important Buddhist teacher in his own right (
Urgyen spent 33 years at Nagi Gompa Hermitage, where he spent two decades in retreat, and eventually established six
Urgyen Rinpoche died on the morning of February 13, 1996.[1]
Teaching
Tulku Urgyen was the author of the two-volume As It Is, which deals with the subject of emptiness. His main transmissions were the Chokling Tersar and the pointing-out instruction.
Buddhist teacher and writer Marcia Binder Schmidt wrote of him:
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's special quality was to begin with the view rather than end with it; to train in devotion, compassion, and renunciation, perfecting the accumulations, and removing obscurations, all within the framework of the view. The practitioner was encouraged to see all these aspects of practice as the very expressions of the view itself. That was Tulku Urgyen's unique style.[6]
Author and neuroscientist
"The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could point out the nature of mind with precision and matter-of-factness of teaching a person how to thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator like me to recognize that consciousness is intrinsically free of self... I came to Tulku Urgyen yearning for the experience of self-transcendence, and in a few minutes he showed me I had no self to transcend... After a few minutes, Tulku Urgyen simply handed me the ability to cut through the illusion of the self directly, even in ordinary states of consciousness. This instruction was, without question, the most important thing I have ever been explicitly taught by another human being. It has given me a way to escape the usual tides of psychological suffering - fear, anger, shame - in an instant."[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g A Brief Biography of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Archived 2011-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Keeping A Good Heart
- ^ a b c Interview for Vajradhatu Sun, 1985
- ^ Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Erik Pema Kunsang (1981). "Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Biography". Rangjung Yeshe Publications. Archived from the original on January 4, 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
- ^ "Kathmandu Tergar Osel Ling Monastery". Tergar.org. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
- ISBN 1-57062-829-7.
- ISBN 978-1451636017.