Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoché

Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoché (Tibetan =མཁན ་ པོ ་ ཚུལ ་ ཁྲིམ ་ རྒྱ ་ མཚོ ་ རིན ་ པོ ་ ཆེ ་, Wylie =mkhan Po tshul khrim rgya mtsho rin Po che), of its laic name Sherab Lodro, is an eminent yogi well-read man of the tradition Kagyupa of the Bouddhisme Tibetan. He often teaches occident, and in particular known for is used the Doha S (songs of realization) composed by Milarepa (with which he is often compared) and other Masters of the past.

Biography

Sherab Lodro was born in 1934 in a family from nomad from Nangchen, in the Kham (Eastern Tibet). Whereas it was 2 years old, his/her father is suddenly deceased. His/her mother turned to the daily practice of Dharma, and Sherab Lodro accompanied it in its pilgrimages. To look further into the teaching of Dharma, it left its house with an young age to receive a Buddhist formation of LAMA Zopa Tarchin, which was to become its LAMA root. At the conclusion of this formation, to directly carry out the teaching which it received, it carried out an ascetic life of a yogi, wandering through the Tibet and undertaking intensive and solitary retirements in caves and practitioner the Chöd. With the Monastery of Tsourphou, the historical seat of the Karma-Kagyu line, Rinpoché continued its formation under the direction of the chief of this line, the 16th Karmapa, and other Masters.

Exile in India

Whereas it was in retirement with Nyemo, Rinpoché was approached by a group of Buddhist nuns who fled the military disorders of 1959, dependant on the invasion by the Chinese army of Tibet. Rinpoché has to carry out them in their escape of Tibet, by guiding this group of nuns with tranverser the Himalayas and to arrive in safety at the Bhutan. It went thereafter in India of north, where it spent the 9 years following to the refugee camp Tibetan of Buxador to the Bengal. Here, he studied and controlled the Buddhist scholarship of the 4 schools of the Bouddhisme Tibetan and was obtained the degree of Khenpo of 16th Karmapa as well as the equivalent of the degree of Geshe Lharampa of the the 14th Dalai Lama. Under the direction of Karmapa, it east is established thereafter with the Bhutan, where it built, for the nuns whom it had guided in their escape, a convent, a center of retirement and a school, that it continues to see regularly.

Lesson

With Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoché, Khenpo Rinpoché officiated as a principal teacher with the Shedra (monastic university) with the Monastery of Rumtek, the seat of Karmapa in exile. For this reason, it trained all the major persons in charge of the lines Karma Kagyu. It also exempted many lesson in the world during these 20 last years.

July 17th, 1977, Rinpoché arrived at Paris, to France, and started to teach Dharma and the language traditional Tibetan. Since, Rinpoché travelled to Europe, in the United States, in Canada, to South America, to Southeast Asia, to Africa and Australia. In 1986, it founded the Institute of Marpa of the Translators, with Bodnath, the Nepal, which offered intensive courses of winter in language and writing. Khenpo Rinpoché continued to supervise this insitut after it was transferred to the Monastery from Pullahari above Bodnath.

Rinpoché is also the teaching main thing of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoché, and it is very close to its center of Nalandabodhi. He teaches also much in the Buddhist community Shambhala. Rinpoché is also a first teacher of LAMA Shenpen Hookham.

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