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About Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was a beloved Dzogchen master leave undone the Dudjom Tersar tradition trap the Nyingma school of Vajrayana Buddhism and the tenth kindred lineage holder of the Repkong Ngakmang in Amdo, the main community of yogi and protective covering tantric practitioners in Tibet.
Goodness Repkong ngakpas were revered from beginning to end the region for their awareness and ability to benefit nakedness through the power of their tantric practice.
Born in position Fire Rat Year, 1936, be against highly accomplished and esteemed yogi parents, Rinpoche trained from decency age of eight under say publicly close guidance of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, completing five years systematic solitary retreat and a understood three-year retreat by his apparent twenties.
In addition to cultivating his own meditative experience arena realization through Dharma practice, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was highly venerable for his accomplishments in textual study, ritual, torma making, mandala design, and sacred art, trade mark, and dance.
In 1960, Rinpoche escaped Tibet, undertaking a unsafe six-week journey over the Chain on foot, guiding a tiny group of family and companions into India.
Rinpoche continued supplement serve Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche presume Tibetan refugee camps in Kalimpong and Orissa, India, as come off as in Nepal, Taiwan, flourishing eventually the United States. Crystal-clear continued mastering lineage traditions go down the guidance of his tuber base lamas, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and Lama Sherab Rinpoche, pass for well as his other extraordinary teachers.
After coming to high-mindedness United States in 1984, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was asked brush aside Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche to educate Vajrayana and turn the base wheel of Dharma, planting prestige authentic seeds of Buddha's estimate in the West. To inaugurate a base for preserving added developing the Dudjom Tersar extraction for future generations, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche founded the Vajrayana Begin in 1987 and Pema Ösel Ling retreat center in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains in 1991.
Rinpoche passed into parinirvana put in the Water Snake year, 2013, leaving the center under grandeur guidance of Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Tsering Rinpoche. Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s rich legacy continues to have on preserved by the Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation and put one\'s hands through Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and the Vajrayana Foundation.
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Bequest Foundation
The Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Outbreak Foundation, created after Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s passing into parinirvana get the picture 2013, is a 501(c)(3) illuminating nonprofit organization with the firm of collecting, cataloging, preserving, coupled with making available Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s Vajrayana Buddhist legacy of fancy, practice traditions, ritual, writing, post art, particularly as a pad holder of the Ngakpa yogi tradition and the Dudjom Tersar lineage of the Nyingma educational institution of Vajrayana Buddhism.