Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche 1920-1996 (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་; Wylie: Sprul-sku O-rgyan Rin-po-che). A contemporary Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages, who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal. His main transmissions were the Chokling Tersar and the pointing-out instruction.

His reincarnation was discovered in March 2006, the four year old son of Chokling Rinpoche (known as the Chokling of Neten, not to be confused with Tulku Urgyen's son who is the Chokling of Tsikey.). He lives in the village of Bir in Himachal Pradesh, in India.

[edit] External links

• Brief biography
• Speech by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche on the recognition of his father's Tulku in 2006

[edit] References

• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Vajra Speech. Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang. Boudhanath: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2001. ISBN 962-7341-44-4
• Blazing Splendor. The Memoirs of the Dzogchen Yogi Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. ISBN 962-7341-56-8