Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
| Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche | |
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| Religion | Kagyü and Nyingma |
| School | Shambhala Buddhist |
| Lineage | Chogyam Trungpa |
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| Born | 1962 Bodh Gaya |
| Spouse | Khandro Tseyang Ripa Mukpo |
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| Reincarnation | Mipham the Great |
| Website | http://www.sakyong.com/ |
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| Tibetan | ས་སྐྱོང་མི་ཕམ་ | ||||
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| Wylie | Sa-skyong Mi-pham |
Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, Jampal Trinley Dradul (born Osel Rangdrol Mukpo in 1962) is the head of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and Shambhala International, a worldwide network of urban Buddhist meditation centers, retreat centers, monasteries, a university, and other enterprises, founded by his father, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is a high lama in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche was born Ösel Rangdröl Mukpo in Bodhgaya, India in December 1962. His father, Chögyam Trungpa, was a Buddhist monk who had left Tibet in 1959 at the head of a large party of refugees. His mother, Könchok Paldrön, was a nun. The two had met during the journey from Tibet to India. Chögyam Trungpa left India in early 1963 to study at Oxford University, and their son spent his early years with his mother in a Tibetan refugee village in northwest India. At the age of seven, he went to live with his father at Samye Ling in Scotland. Chögyam Trungpa moved to the United States in 1970, and Ösel Mukpo joined him there two years later. In 1979, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche performed a ceremony officially investing his son Ösel Rangdröl with the title of Sawang ("earth lord"). This confirmed Ösel as his Shambhala heir and the future Sakyong. After his father's death in 1987, the Sawang moved to Nepal and studied with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche for three years, while Osel Tendzin, the Vajra Regent, succeeded Trungpa Rinpoche as Buddhist lineage holder and head of the various organizations established by Trungpa, including Vajradhatu, Shambhala Training, and Naropa University. When Tendzin died in 1990, the Sawang was acknowledged as Trungpa's successor in the Kagyu, Nyingma and Shambhala lineages and head of the organizations. In May 1995 the Sawang Ösel Rangdröl Mukpo was formally enthroned as Sakyong at a ceremony performed by Penor Rinpoche. Shortly before the enthronement Penor Rinpoche recognized the Sawang as tulku of Mipham the Great.
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