Brief Biography of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche was born in 1923, in Yardrok Takloung, central Tibet. He was recognized as of a youth to be the reincarnation of the terton Dongak Lingpa and is also regarded as the reincarnation of other major Masters of Tibet and India. Rinpoche studied with the greatest masters of his time and received a complete traditional education. During the invasion of Tibet, Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche took refuge with his disciples in a remote place to the south of Everest, a mountain retreat to which no motor-road leads to today. He spent many years in retreat there and founded a monastery, Tubten Chöling.

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, one of the foremost masters of the Ancient, mNyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Trulshik Rinpoche was the closest and most realized disciple of the late master, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. It was prophesied in Khyentse Rinpoche's visionary teachings (terma) that Trulshik Rinpoche would be the spiritual heir to his teachings, and in his absence, Khyentse Rinpoche referred all important matters to Trulshik Rinpoche. Upon Khyentse Rinpoche's passing in 1991, Trulshik Rinpoche was entrusted to find his reincarnation. He has visited the West several times to give teachings to fortunate students.

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