Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
| Trungram Gyalwa | |
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| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| School | Kagyu, Nyingma, Rimé |
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| Born | 1968 Mt. Tsari, Arunachal Pradesh, India |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | Rinpoche |
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| Reincarnation | Gotsa Gyalwa Luntok Thrinlay (1894-1959) |
| Website | dharmakaya.org |
Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche (Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche) (born 1968) is the head of the Trungram lineage and one of the highest tulkus of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He has received extensive transmissions of the Nyingma lineages, and teaches in the spirit of the nonsectarian Rimé movement. He is also the first incarnate lama to earn a Ph.D. in the West, having completed a doctoral program in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Harvard University. Widely recognized for his ability to modernize ancient Buddhist teachings for today’s challenges, he is dedicated to the value of education in bringing wisdom to life. To realize this vision, he has founded organizations throughout Asia and the United States.
Born into a Nepalese Sherpa family, Trungram Gyalwa was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, as the The 4th Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, the reincarnation of the 3rd Trungram Gyalwa.
Trungram Gyalwa was born on the mountain of Tsari, near Daporiju, Arunachal Pradesh, India in 1968, into a Sherpa family from Nepal.
As a very young boy, Trungram Gyalwa had a transparent abdomen, which eventually led his parents to take him to Nepal at the age of 18 months to seek out the 16th Karmapa, supreme head of the Kagyu lineage. In a public audience at Swayambhunath, Kathmandu, before his parents had a chance to speak with the Karmapa, the 16th Karmapa recognized the child on sight as the “intentionally reborn” manifestation (tulku) of the 3rd Trungram Gyalwa. The 16th Karmapa explained Trungram Gyalwa's marking as a symbol of his predecessor’s realization of Mahamudra practice.
The 16th Karmapa proclaimed the boy as the 4th Trungram Gyalwa, with the formal name of “Trungram Karma Tenpai Gyaltsen Trinlay Kunkyab Pal Sangpo” and bestowed him with dharma robes at Dabsang monastery near Baudha, Kathmandu in 1970. He gave him Buddhist refuge vows, and wrote a long-life prayer for him. Trungram Gyalwa was enthroned at the age of four at Rumtek Monastery, the main seat of the Karmapa, in Sikkim, India.
Gyalwa Trulku was the name of the first incarnation of the Trungram Gyalwa lineage. Gyalwa was his personal name; Trulku refers to incarnation. Since this first Trugram Gyalwa belonged to the Trungram teaching lineage and was well respected by people, his full name was Trungram Gyalwa Trulku Rinpoche. This name is quite long, so he often used Gyaltrul, the shortened form of Gyalwa Trulku, making the name Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche.
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