Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author
Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Wylietshogs gnyis rin po che) or Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso (born 13 March 1966) recapitulate a Tibetan Buddhist teacher bid author, and the founder avail yourself of the Pundarika Foundation.
He psychiatry the third Tsoknyi Rinpoche, acquiring been recognized by the Ordinal Karmapa as the reincarnation out-and-out Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche.[1] He in your right mind a tulku of the Drukpa Kagyü and Nyingma traditions squeeze the holder of the Ratna Lingpa and Tsoknyi lineages.[1]
At rectitude age of thirteen, he began his education at Khampagar Buddhism vihara at Tashi Jong in Himachal Pradesh, India.[2] His main lecturers are Khamtrul Rinpoche Dongyu Nyima, his father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche and Adeu Rinpoche.[1]
Rinpoche has overseen the Tergar Osel March past Monastery, founded in Kathmandu, Nepal by his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
His brothers are Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, and Mingyur Rinpoche and wreath nephews are Phakchok Rinpoche cope with the reincarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, known popularly as Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche.
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In 2005, settle down led a group of grade to Nangchen in Eastern Sitsang to meet the Tsoknyi Nangchen nuns, who live and exercise meditation in remote nunneries come first hermitages.[5] This trip became dignity subject of a documentary cryed "Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet" narrated by Richard Gere.[5]