Phakchok Rinpoche

Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
Religion	Buddhism
School	Vajrayana
Lineage	Taklung Kagyu and Nyingma
Education	Dzongsar Shedra
Personal
Born	May 1981 Nepal
Senior posting
Based in	Nepal
Title	Tulku Rinpoche
Predecessor	Ngawang Jigmey Drakpa Thupten Namgyal
Religious career
Website	phakchokrinpoche.org

Phakchok Rinpoche (born 1981) is a teacher of the Nyingma lineage and chief lineage holder of the Taklung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is Vajra Master of Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling monastery, abbot of several monasteries in Nepal, and assists monasteries and practice centers in Tibet. In addition, he serves as Director of the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation, a non-profit organization engaged in a wide-range of humanitarian projects.

Phakchok Rinpoche is the first-born grandson of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and his father, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, is the fourth reincarnation of Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa. His uncles Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and Mingyur Rinpoche are active teachers in Asia and the West. His younger brother has been recognized as the reincarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche. He and his father, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, oversee the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation along with a global network of Buddhist meditation centers.

Before he was four, Phakchok Rinpoche was recognized by the Kagyu regents as being seventh in the line of the Riwoche Phakchok incarnations. Rinpoche entered the Dzongsar Institute of Advanced Buddhist Studies in Bir, India, where he received the Khenpo title, comparable to a PhD in Buddhist Philosophy, from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Phakchok Rinpoche has received instructions and ripening empowerments from many teachers, including Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, and others.

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