Pema Tönyö Nyinje

Pema Tönyö Nyinje (Tibetan: པདྨ་དོན་ཡོད་ཉིན་བྱེད་Wylie: Padma Don-yod Nyin-byed, ZYPY: Baima Toinyoi Nyinje, Lhasa dialect IPA: [[pɛ́ma tʰø̃̀yøʔ ɲĩ̀dʑeʔ]]) tib.: si tu pad ma don yod nyin byed dbang po; * 1954[1] (also: Pema Donyo Nyinje, Péma Donyö Nyinjé) (1954-)[2] is the 12th Tai Situpa,[3] a reincarnate Tibetan Buddhist teacher, and one of the leading figures of the Karma Kagyu tradition. He is the Supreme Head of the Palpung Congregation.

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Life

Pema Tönyö Nyinje Wangpo was born in a farming family in the Palyul district of Derge, in the East of Tibet and enthroned at the age of 18 months by the 16th Karmapa. At the age of 5 he was brought to Tsurphu.

At the age of five he left Tibet for Bhutan, where King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk had been a disciple of the 11th Tai Situpa. Later he was cared for at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, India where he received his formal religious training from the 16th Karmapa.

The 16th Karmapa had himself been raised under the guidance of the 11th Tai Situpa. Indeed this alternation between teacher and disciple has served as a mechanism for the unbroken continuity within the Kagyu tradition. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche wrote in his book Born in Tibet: “Tai Situ Rinpoche, who was second in importance in the Karma Kagyu school, had died some years before and no reincarnation had been found. The Karmapa could now tell them where the incarnation had taken place. Everyone rejoiced and started immediately to make the preparations."

At the age of twenty-two, Situ Rinpoche founded his own new monastic seat, Palpung Sherab Ling in Himachal Pradesh, in Northern India which is the seat in exile. In 2000, relics of the 8th Tai Situ Rinpoche were enthroned in a separate temple.

As a Buddhist teacher, Tai Situ Rinpoche traveled widely making his first visit to the West in 1981 to Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, and he visited the United States in 1982. Since then, Rinpoche has extensively traveled North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. These teachings have so far been published in 9 books. In 1989 the Rinpoche went on pilgrimage for World Peace.

The 12th Tai Situpa was instrumental in recognizing Ogyen Trinley Dorje as the 17th Karmapa. He also recognized Choseng Trungpa, born on 6 February 1989 in eastern Tibet, as the reincarnation of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

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References

  1. ^ tbrc.org: pad+ma don yod nyin byed
  2. ^ Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa (2009). The Dorje Chang Thungma. Palpung Publications. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9781877294365. http://books.google.com/books?id=cBls5dpzWxgC&pg=PA9&dq=Kenting+Tai+Situpa&hl=en&ei=n_31TO3XEZKosAOI7om0Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 1 December 2010. 
  3. ^ Jamgong Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé; Ngawang Zangpo (1997). Enthronement: the recognition of the reincarnate masters of Tibet and the Himalayas. Snow Lion Publications. p. 166. ISBN 9781559390835. http://books.google.com/books?id=B-kNJ4ycsB8C&pg=PA166&dq=Tai+Situpa&hl=en&ei=Ve71TKXTGoHAsAObsr3ICw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Tai%20Situpa&f=false. Retrieved 1 December 2010. 

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