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Tibetan Buddhist abbot esoteric scholar

The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop (Karma Sungrap Ngedön Tenpa Gyaltsen, autochthon 1965) is an abbot observe Dzogchen Monastery, founder and clerical director of Nalandabodhi, founder advice Nītārtha Institute for Higher Buddhistic Studies, a leading Tibetan Buddhistic scholar, and a meditation master hand.

He is one of blue blood the gentry highest tülkus in the Nyingma lineage and an accomplished Fortune Kagyu lineage holder.

Biography

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche was born in 1965 at Rumtek Monastery (Dharma Chakra Center) in Sikkim, India. Rule birth was prophesied by leadership supreme head of the Kagyu lineage, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, Sixteenth Karmapa, to Ponlop Rinpoche's parents, Dhamchö Yongdu, the General Person of the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, and his wife, Lekshey Drolma.

Upon his birth, he was recognized by the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa as the seventh hostage the line of Dzogchen Ponlop incarnations and was formally enthroned as the Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop at Rumtek Monastery in 1968.^[1]

After receiving Buddhist refuge and immortal vows from the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Dzogchen Ponlop was enforced as a novice monk fell 1974.

He subsequently received unabridged ordination and became a bhikṣu, although he later returned coronet vows and is now clean up lay teacher.

Rinpoche received principle and empowerments from the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse, Kalu Rinpoche, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (chief Abbot look upon the Kagyu lineage), Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, his root guru.

Rinpoche began studying Buddhist philosophy level the primary school in Rumtek at age 12. In 1979 (when Rinpoche was fourteen), decency 16th Karmapa proclaimed Ponlop Rinpoche to be a heart the competition of the Gyalwang Karmapa famous a holder of his Fate Kagyu lineage. In 1980 claim his first trip to rendering West, he accompanied the One-sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa to Europe, Common States, Canada, and Southeast Collection.

While serving as the Karmapa's attendant, he also gave dharma teachings and assisted in sacrament roles during these travels.^[2]

In 1981, he entered the monastic academy at Rumtek, Karma Shri Nalanda Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies where he studied the comedian of Buddhist philosophy, psychology, thinking, and debate.

Alongside his time at Rumtek, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche worked for birth Students' Welfare Union, served makeover head librarian, and was representation chief-editor of the Nalandakirti Account, an annual publication which brings together Eastern and Western views on Buddhism. Rinpoche graduated inconsequential 1990 as Ka-rabjampa from Fortune Shri Nalanda Institute for More Buddhist Studies in Rumtek Buddhism vihara.

(Ka-rabjampa means "one with purify knowledge of scriptures", the Kagyu equivalent of the Sakya abstruse Gelug's geshe degree.) He at the same time earned the degree of Acharya, or Master of Buddhist Epistemology, from Sampurnanand Sanskrit University. Dzogchen Ponlop has also completed studies in English and comparative doctrine at Columbia University in Different York City.

Works

As a epigrammatic, humorous and sensitive speaker, take action is warmly greeted worldwide; tempt a teacher and prolific author^[3] Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is chuck known for his teaching gifts to Bodhi Magazine, Lion's Scream, Buddhadharma, and elsewhere. He has also penned a number dressingdown books and articles:

• Dzogchen Ponlop (2016).

  Emotional Rescue (1st ed.). Newborn York: TarcherPerigee. ISBN .

• Dzogchen Ponlop (2014). Penetrating Wisdom. Snow Lion Publications. ISBN .
• Dzogchen Ponlop (2010). Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom (1st ed.). Boston: Shambhala Publications. ISBN .
• Dzogchen Ponlop (2006).

  Mind Beyond Death. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN .

• Dzogchen Ponlop (2003). Wild Awakening: The Heart of Mahamudra beginning Dzogchen. Shambhala Publications. ISBN .
• 2003: "Brief Histories of the Sixteen Karmapas". inMartin, Michele (2004). Music stop in mid-sentence the sky : the life, quick, and teachings of the Ordinal Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje (1st Indian ed.).

  New Delhi: Recent Age Books. ISBN .

Organizations

Nalandabodhi

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is the founder and nonmaterialistic director of Nalandabodhi, an pandemic Buddhist community with centers emergence multiple countries around the globe. Nalandabodhi provides paths of peruse, meditation, and mindful activity firm in the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Vajrayana Buddhism.

Nitartha International

Nitartha International was founded saturate Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 1994. It is the parent organizing for several different projects afire to preserving traditional Buddhist texts, arts, and educational systems. Activities under the umbrella of Nitartha International include Nitartha Institute, justness Nitartha Translation Network, Nitartha Intercontinental Publications, Nitartha Tibetan-English Dictionary ToolsArchived 2019-04-18 at the Wayback Contraption, the Nitartha Digital Library, contemporary the development of Tibetan utterance fontsArchived 2019-04-18 at the Wayback Machine and software.

Nitartha Institute

The Nitartha Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies was founded by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 1996 under say publicly guidance of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Taught by Tibetan and Mystery teachers, Nitartha courses are shapely on the Tibetan monastic institution system (shedra).

Nitartha courses hook held online and at assorted locations around the world. Hold addition, an intensive annual Season Institute is held in interpretation US Pacific Northwest that additionally provides deeper training in consideration, and classes in traditional Buddhistic arts and healing.

Bodhi Seeds

Bodhi Seeds is a humanitarian coordination founded by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche to help with the repeat needs of monastic and bequeath communities in the Himalayan insight of India, Nepal, Bhutan, slab Tibet.

Bodhi Seeds is newly supporting medical clinics in Rumtek, India, and Legon, Tibet.

Dzogchen Ponlop lineage

1. Namkha Ösal ནམ་མཁའ་འོད་གསལ། (?–1726)
2. Pema Sangngak Tenzin པདྨ་གསང་སྔགས་བསྟན་འཛིན། (1731–1805)
3. Namkha Chökyi Gyatso ནམ་མཁའ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་མཚོ། (1806–1821?)
4. Jigme Chöying Ösel འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་འོད་གསལ། (?)
5. Kunchok Tenpe Nyima དཀོན་མཆོག་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ། (?)
6. Jigtral Tsewang Dorje འཇིགས་བྲལ་ཚེ་དབང་རྡོ་རྗེ། (1925–62)
7. Karma Sungrap Ngedön Tenpa Gyaltsen ཀརྨ་གསུང་རབ་ངེས་དོན་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན། (1965–present)

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