Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
| Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso | |
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| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Lineage | Karma Kagyu |
| Education | Khenpo, doctorate of Buddhist studies |
| Dharma names | Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche |
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| Nationality | Tibetan |
| Born | 1934 Nangchen, Kham (eastern Tibet) |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Nepal |
| Title | Rinpoche |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher | Lama Zopa Tarchin |
| Students | Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche |
| Website | www.ktgrinpoche.org |
Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche (Tibetan: མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: mkhan po tshul khrim rgya mtsho rin po che) is a prominent scholar yogi in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He teaches widely in the West, often through songs of realization, his own as well as those composed by Milarepa and other masters of the past. "Tsültrim Gyamtso" translates to English as "Ocean of Ethical Conduct".
Rinpoche was born in 1934 to a nomad family from Nangchen, Kham (eastern Tibet). He left home at an early age to train with Lama Zopa Tarchin, who was to become his root guru. After completing this early training, he lived the ascetic life of a yogi, wandering throughout Tibet and undertaking intensive, solitary retreats in caves and living in charnel grounds practicing Chöd. At Tsurphu Monastery, the historic seat of the Karma Kagyu lineage, Rinpoche continued his training with the lineage head, the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, and other masters.
During the 1959 Tibetan uprising Rinpoche fled Tibet, leading a group of Buddhist nuns over the Himalayas to safety in Bhutan. He subsequently went to northern India, where he spent the next nine years at the Buxa Duar Tibetan Refugee Camp. Here he studied and mastered Buddhist scholarship and was awarded a Khenpo degree by the 16th Karmapa and the equivalent Geshe Lharampa degree by the 14th Dalai Lama. At the direction of the Karmapa, he subsequently settled in Bhutan, where he built a nunnery, retreat center, and school.
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