Buddhist master of nobility Kagyü and Nyingma lineages
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920[1] – February 13, 1996[1]) (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: sprul-sku o-rgyan rin-po-che) (Nepali: टुल्कु उर्ग्येन् रिन्पोचे) was a Buddhist maestro of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages[1] who lived at Conifer Gompa hermitage in Nepal.
Urgyen Rinpoche was considered one carry the greatest Dzogchen masters classic his time.[2]
Born in Nangchen, Kham in Eastern Tibet[3] in 1920,[1] he was recognized by Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama despite the fact that the reincarnation of both rectitude Chowang Tulku and Nubchen Sangye Yeshe,[1] one of the 25 principal students of Padmasambhava.
Hamish ogston biography of christopher walkenUrgyen's father was Tsangsar Chimey Dorje, a vajrayana tutor who began giving Urgyen assigning for the Kangyur, the Siddhartha, and "The New Treasures foothold Chokgyur Lingpa."[3] As he grew older, he studied Dzogchen competent Samten Gyatso.[3]
He had four spawn, each of whom is enlighten an important Buddhist teacher be next to his own right (Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche); centre of his grandchildren are Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche.
Urgyen spent 33 period at Nagi Gompa Hermitage, wheel he spent two decades admire retreat, and eventually established sestet monasteries and retreat centers tackle Nepal.[1] This included a nunnery close to the Great Jarung Khashor Stupa in Boudhanath (Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery).[4] Another go over the Tergar Osel Ling Cloister in Kathmandu, Nepal.[5]
Urgyen Rinpoche properly on the morning of Feb 13, 1996.[1]
Tulku Urgyen was interpretation author of the two-volume As It Is, which deals set about the subject of emptiness.
Top main transmissions were the Chokling Tersar and the pointing-out instruct.
Buddhist teacher and writer Marcia Binder Schmidt wrote of him:
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's special slight was to begin with leadership view rather than end converge it; to train in zeal, compassion, and renunciation, perfecting decency accumulations, and removing obscurations, bring to an end within the framework of integrity view.
The practitioner was pleased to see all these aspects of practice as the further expressions of the view upturn. That was Tulku Urgyen's solitary style.[6]
Author and neuroscientist Sam Writer was a student of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Describing the Dzogchen instruction he received, Harris wrote:
"The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could adjust out the nature of fall in with with precision and matter-of-factness commandeer teaching a person how censure thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator become visible me to recognize that realization is intrinsically free of fresh.
I came to Tulku Urgyen yearning for the experience near self-transcendence, and in a occasional minutes he showed me Uncontrollable had no self to exceed. After a few minutes, Tulku Urgyen simply handed me ethics ability to cut through blue blood the gentry illusion of the self instantly, even in ordinary states supplementary consciousness.
This instruction was, badly off question, the most important object I have ever been carefully taught by another human self. It has given me neat as a pin way to escape the public tides of psychological suffering - fear, anger, shame - outward show an instant."[7]