Taï Sitou Rinpoché

Taï Sitou Rinpoché is, with Gyaltsab Rinpoché, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoché and Shamar Rinpoché, one of the Regents of the Karmapa. 12th and current Taï Sitou Rinpoché recognized Orgyen Trinley Dorje like 17th Karmapa. Taï Sitou Rinpoché ensures, just like Gyaltsab Rinpoché, the instruction of Orgyen Trinley Dorje, chief of the line Karma Kagyu. It resides in its Monastery of Shérab Ling, in India of North.

Biography of Taï Sitou Rinpoché

Taï Sitoupa is resulting from a branch of the tradition Kagyu whose line goes back to the bodhisattva Maitreya, disciple of the Bouddha. The title of Taï Sitoupa started to be given as from the 15th century with Chokyi Gyaltsen. It means " The Large Master inébranlable and who reach the distance, the holder of the ordre" (Kuang Ting Tai Situ).

It was born in 1954 in a family from farmers with Palyul in the area from Dege, in the east of the Tibet, according to the predictions of the 16th Karmapa. Whereas it is 5 years old, the political conditions with the Tibet force it to be exiled with the Bhutan where the king Jigme Dorji Wangchuck had been a disciple of 11th Taï Sitou Rinpoché. Then, it joined the Karmapa with the Monastery of Rumtek to the Sikkim in India. Thus it receives from the supreme representative of the line kagyu and other many Masters placed under his direction all the lesson and initiations of the tradition. 16th Karmapa itself had received the enseigements 11th Tai Sitoupa. This alternation between the professor and the pupil for Karmapas, Tai Situpas and other supports of line of 1st Karmapa made it possible to ensure the continuity of the transmission of the tradition of Kagyu. Is 22 years old, in 1975, it starts to take up its duties by melting the project of the Monastery of Shérab Ling, at the request of the disciples Tibetan established in the North of India. In 1981, it visits the monastery of Samye Ling in Scotland, and will then go regularly the centers Kagyupa to North America, of Europe and Southeast Asia teaching philosophy and the meditation there. It meets also the representatives of other confessions and humanitarian organizations. Its first return to the Tibet is carried out during the winter 1984. With an aim of stage to the spiritual need for faithful, invited by a great number of monasteries of several traditions, it then exempts lesson and initiations in front of sometimes 100.000 people and in zones as isolated as the Monastery from Palpung.

In 1989, it leads a pilgrimage dedicated to peace in the world. On this occasion, documentary was carried out where figure an audience with the Pope Jean-Paul II, an exchange with monks Benedictines in Assise, prayers for peace on the Shasta Mount and a dialog inter-monk in India with the chiefs of the principal confessions. 1991 fact the object of a second voyage in Tibet on the occasion of which it orders 1200 nuns and monks and transmits a succession of initiations (Prejudice Nga Zod) awaited by 65 spangled réincarnés, the sanghas of 92 monasteries, and innumerable laic.

The 16th Karmapa, its principal instructor, is deceased in 1981, it is near its successor, the 17th Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje that Taï Sitou Rinpoché ensures in its turn the role of spiritual guide. Just like the prédécedants Karmapa predicting by letter them Reincarnation, the 16th Karmapa had left a text found in 1992 in an amulet which it had given to Taï Sitou Rinpoché. Orgyen Trinley Dorje was born the June 26th 1985 in a family from nomads of the Kham (South-eastern of the Tibet), from Karma Döndrub Tashi and his Loga wife. He was discovered by a team sent to the Tibet by Taï Sitou Rinpoché. Orgyen Trinley Dorje was led to the monastery of Tsourphou, seat traditional of the Karmapa S, close to Lhassa and the September 27th 1992, it was established there by Taï Sitou Rinpoché and Gyaltsab Rinpoché. In January 2000, the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, carried out a daring escape starting from its monastery with the Tibet, to be able to continue its religious studies. Taï Sitou Rinpoché guides now its spiritual training in exile with Dharamsala in India.

12th Taï Sitou Rinpoché continues the traditions of the line of practice of Taï Sitou Rinpoché. Famous Buddhist professor, it forms the next generation of the Buddhist Masters. On a level more personal Taï Sitou Rinpoché is a disciple, a poet, a calligrapher, an artist, an author, an architect and a geomancian (the Géomancie is science studied the properties and the relationship between the environment, the elements and their interaction with lines, angles, surfaces and the solids).

As anybody concerned for the wellbeing of planet and its inhabitants, Taï Sitou Rinpoché organizes and takes part in the conferences in the whole world trying to make compassion and wisdom part of the reality of the life on ground.

As Buddhist Master, he travels regularly the world giving of the lesson and enablings on request of the centers of Dharma, and holds of the courses with on the Mahamudra to present deepest and crowned lesson Karma Kagyu.

Emanations and line of Taï Sitou Rinpoché

Chokyi Gyaltsen was the first incarnation to carry the title of Taï Sitou Rinpoché, which was conferred to him in 1407 by the emperor of China Yongle of the Dynastie Ming. He was a disciple close to the 5th Karmapa which named it abbot of Karma Goen, the monastery of the Karmapa then.

In addition to the preceding incarnations, of which the 12 Sitou Rinpochés, much the large ones spangled were recognized like emanations of Taï Sitou Rinpoché by Masters of the line Kagyupa.

List partial of the emanations:

  • Bodhisattva Maitreya

  • Bodhisattva source of the instructions
  • Yidam Hevajra
  • Dombipa Heruka
  • Darikapa
  • Vajracarya Shri Singha
  • Worthy Gyim Shang
  • Demma Tsemang
  • Marpa Lotsawa (1012 - 1097)
  • Pang Kenchen Ozer LAMA
  • Rabten Kunzang Stake
  • Ngawang Jikten Wongchuk
  • Gonpo Tsultrim Nyingpo
  • Drogon Renchen Sonam Drakpa
  • Yeshe Wangchuk
  • emperor Togoontomor (1320 - 1370)
  • Ratnabhadra 15th century
  • Taranatha (1575 - 1634)

Line of Taï Sitou Rinpoché:

  1. Chokyi Gyaltsen (1377 - 1448)
  2. Tashi Namgyal (1450 - 1497)
  3. Tashi Paljor (1498 - 1541)
  4. Chokyi Gocha (1542 - 1585)
  5. Chokyi Gyaltsen Palzang (1586 - 1657)
  6. Mipham Chogyal Rabten (1658 - 1682)
  7. Nawe Nyima (1683 - 1698)
  8. Chokyi Jungne (1700 - 1774)
  9. Pema Nyingche Wangpo (1774 - 1853)
  10. Pema Kunzang Chogyal (1854 - 1885)
  11. Pema Wangchuk Gyalpo (1886 - 1952)
  12. Péma Tönyö Nyinjé (1954 -)

External bonds

  • Web site of Taï Sitou Rinpoché
  • Biography of the 12 Tai Situpas by Ken Holmes
  • 12 Tai Sitoupas by the world Karma Kagyu
  • to remember a Buddha (documentary on sixteenth Karmapa) includes the comment of each of the three Regents.

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