Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
H. E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche (1930-2002)
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche belongs to the last generation of teachers to have been fully trained in Tibet in the vast wealth of Vajrayana teachings and methods. He held superb teaching lineages, primarily in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Vajrayana, which he taught unceasingly throughout his life. The main emphasis in whatever he taught was pure motivation.
After the Communist conquest of Tibet in 1959, Rinpoche went into exile in India and Nepal. During the next twenty years, in various refugee camps and settlements, Rinpoche served as lama who administered to the refugees’ spiritual needs, as a camp leader who organized work projects, and as a physician Tibetan medicine.
Rinpoche traveled to the United States in 1979. The combination of his warm personality, his depth of knowledge, and his meditative realization magnetized thousands of students. His tireless teachings led him to Europe, Russia, Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, and South America. He resettled in Brazil in 1995 after successfully establishing numerous centers and meditation groups in the United States and other places. In order to maintain his lineage teachings, he ordained a number of his Western students as teachers and gave them specific authorizations to teach.
Rinpoche’s work is maintained by Chagdud Gonpa Foundation in North America, by Chagdud Gonpa Brasil, and by Chagdud Gonpa Hispanoamerica in Spanish-speaking Latin America. The Mahakaruna Foundation administers support for Chagdud Gonpa and associated monasteries in Tibet and Nepal.
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Teachers and Centers carrying on the Work of H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche[edit]
Lama Drimed Norbu P.O. Box 279 Junction City, CA 96048 Ph: (530) 623-2714; Fax: (530) 623-6709 www.chagdud.org chagdud@snowcrest.net
Ati Ling / Padmasambhava Peace Institute Jigme Tromge Rinpoche 23125 Fort Ross Rd. Cazadero, CA 95421 Ph: (707) 824-0291--CGF events (707) 623-5629--PPI www.atiling.org atiling@hotmail.com
T'hondup Ling Lama Chödak Gyatso Nubpa P.O. Box 292499 Los Angeles, CA 90029 Ph: (323) 953-0755 www.thondupling.org thondupling@yahoo.com
P'huntsog Ling c/o Sylvia Salazar Santa Barbara, CA Ph: (805) 569-0766 energymedicinesb@aol.com
Yeshe Ling Northern San Francisco Bay Area Ph: (707) 963-8340 lahdvm@napanet.net
Chhö Khor Ling c/o Sue Hubbard Arcata, CA Ph: (707) 445-8248 hubbard2@cox.net
Padma Ling Lama Inge Zangmo 1014 W Seventh Ave. Spokane, WA 99204 Ph: (509) 747-1559 padmaling@icehouse.net
Amrita Lama Padma Gyatso 2223 N.E. 137th Street Seattle, WA 98125 Ph: (206) 368-7974 www.amritaseattle.org info@amritaseattle.org
Minjur Ling
Ashland, OR Ph: (541) 201-0096 sullivan108@juno.com
Dechhen Ling Lama Trinley & Lama Dorje 198 North River Road Cottage Grove, OR 97424 Sharon: (541) 942-1386 n/a jwmiller@efn.org
Iron Knot Ranch Lama Shenpen Drolma P.O. Box 769 Silver City, NM 88061 e-phone: (510) 315-1960 ironknot@ironknot.org
L'hundrub Ling Lama Shenpen Drolma Flagstaff, AZ Ph: (510) 315-1960
Orgyan Rigjed Ling c/o Dennis Kennedy Boulder, CO 80302 Ph: (303) 443-1569 dken1208@aol.com 03/13/06 Padma Center c/o John Chen Belvedere, IL Ph: (815) 978-7159 chen0981@yahoo.com
Orgyen Ling c/o Karen Fuller New York, NY Ph: (212) 932-8442
Dungkar Ling c/o Sandra Belfiore Honeybrook, PA Ph: (610) 942-2512 dungkarling@aol.com 03/13/06 Tromge Ling c/o Kathy Morrison Anchorage, AK Ph/fx: (907) 279-8024 kathymorrison@acsalaska.net
Prayer for the Swift Ribirth of HE. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
KON CHHOG TZA SUM DE SHEG KUN DÜ PA
WANG DRAG RIG DZIN PAD MAI JIN LAB KYIY
I pray that by the blessings of the powerful and wrathful vidyadhara Padma, in whom the sugatas of the Three Jewels and Three Roots all unite,
PAD MA GAR GYI WANG KHYUG TRUL PAI KU
NYUR JON TAN DRO DON CHHEN DZAD DU SOL
the rebirth of Padma Gargyi Wangkhyuk may swiftly appear and bring vast benefit to the teachings and beings!