Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
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The Ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche is the current incarnation of the Traleg tulku line, a line of high lamas in the Kagyu lineage of Tibet Buddhism. He is a pioneer in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to Australia.
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[edit] Biography
Traleg Rinpoche was born in 1955 in Kham (eastern Tibet), and two years later was recognized by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa as the ninth incarnation of the Traleg Tulkus and enthroned as the Abbot of the Thrangu monastery. He was taken to safety in India during the 1959 Chinese Communists invasion of Tibet. There he was given a traditional tulku's education, supplemented by five years of schooling at Sanskrit University in Varanasi, India. He lived and studied for several years at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, the main seat in exile of the Kagyu Lineage.
[edit] Teaching in the West
In 1980 Rinpoche went to Australia where he subsequently established Kagyu E-vam Buddhist Institute, in Melbourne. He relinquished his monastic vows, became a lay teacher and married. He earned a Masters degree in comparative philosophy from La Trobe University. In 1989, he taught extensively at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra and visited the North American affiliates of His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa. In 2004 he established the Evam Institute in New York in Chatham, NY. He also teaches extensively in the Karma Thegsum Choling network of the Karmapa's centers and at Shambhala Buddhist centers.
[edit] See also
[edit] Books
- The Benevolent Mind, by Traleg Kyabgon, Zhi-sil Cho-kyi Gha-Tsal Publications (2003), ISBN 1-877294-28-4
- The Essence of Buddhism, by Traleg Kyabgon, Shambhala (2001), ISBN 1-57062-468-2
- Mind at Ease, by Traleg Kyabgon, Shambhala (2004), ISBN 1-59030-156-0
[edit] External links
- The Evam Institute in New York homepage
- The Kagyu E-Vam Institute in Melbourne
- An introduction by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
- An Australian Buddhist magazine established by Traleg Rinpoche
- Recalling a Buddha documentary on the life and activity of the Sixteenth Karmapa, featuring commentary form Traleg Rinpoche.
