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<noinclude><span class=TibUni16>[[བྱ་བྲལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།]]</span></noinclude> <br><noinclude>[[bya bral rin po che]]</noinclude><br>
The name or rather the title Chatral/Chadrel Rinpoche is one of endearment and has been given many time to a great many different Lamas from all the major and minor lineages of Tibet. It's meaning is quite literally ' Precious Hermit ', and as such is given as a sort of honorific nick-name.  
<noinclude><span class=TibUni16>[[བྱ་བྲལ་སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ།]]</span></noinclude><br><noinclude>[[bya bral sangs rgyas rdo rje]]</noinclude><br>
[[Image:SkyChatral.jpg|frame|]]
===Small Biography===
'''Kyabje Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche''' Is a renowned [[Dzogchen]] master in his mid-90s, [[Chatral]] Rinpoche is reclusive yogi known for his great realization and strict discipline. Rinpoche is one of the few living disciples of the great master [[Khenpo Ngagchung]] and widely regarded as one of the most highly realized [[Dzogchen]] yogis. In addition to his relationship with [[Khenpo Ngagchung]], Chatral Rinpoche also studied with some of the last century's most renowned masters, including [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], [[Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro]], and the famed [[dakini]], [[Sera Khandro]]. Rinpoche is one of the primary lineage holders of the [[Longchen Nyingthig]], and in particular the lineage that descends through [[Jigme Lingpa]]'s heart son [[Jigme Gyalwe Nyugu]] and then on to [[Patrul Rinpoche]].


Though his main lineage is the [[Longchen Nyingthig]], Chatral Rinpoche is also closely associated with the [[Dudjom Tersar]] lineage. He was empowered as the regent of His Holiness [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] and is currently passing on this lineage to this master's reincarnation, who lives primarily in central Tibet.
Because of this you may find a searching under this title to produce someone other than whom your intending to look for. Thus here is a list of, broken into the two categorizes of modern and historical, figures know that are sometimes know by the name  Chatral/Chadrel Rinpoche.


Chatral Rinpoche has shunned institutional and political involvement his whole life, choosing instead to live the life of a wandering [[yogi]]. To this day, despite his great age, he continues to move about, rarely remaining in one place for more than a few months. A lay [[yogi]], he is also greatly concerned with maintaining strict discipline in the context of the [[Dzogchen]] view. He is especially well known for his advocacy of vegetarianism and his yearly practice of ransoming the lives of thousands of animals in India. In addition to his emphasis on the union of view and conduct, Rinpoche also stresses the practice of retreat. He has established numerous retreat centers throughout the Himalayas, including in Pharping, Yolmo and Darjeeling.
===Modern===
*[[Chatral Sangye Dorje]] (Nyingma)
*[[Chadrel Jampa Trinley]] (Geluk)
===Historical===
*[[Chatral Choying Khyabdal]] (Nyingma)
*[[Chadrel Choying Rangdrol]] (Nyingma)
*[[Chadrel Kunga Palden]] (Nyingma)
*[[Chadrel Kunga Rangdrol]]
*[[Chatral Kunga Lhundrup]](Sakya)
*[[Ngompa Chadral]] (Kagyu)
*[[Chadral Tsultrim Namdak]] (Kagyu)
*[[Rikey Jadrel]]


Rinpoche currently divides his time between Salbhari, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal. He has two daughters, Tara Devi and Saraswati, with his wife Kamala.<br>
*<br>
<center><noinclude><span class=TibUni16>མཆོག་གི་བླ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་ཏུ། །</span></noinclude><br></center>
<center>Empowered and prophesised by all the supreme Lamas as their regent,<br></center>
<center><noinclude><span class=TibUni16>དབང་བསྐུར་ལུང་ཟིན་ཕྱོགས་མེད་གཞན་དོན་སྤྱོད། །</span></noinclude><br></center>
<center>Impartially acting for the benefit of others,<br></center>
<center><noinclude><span class=TibUni16>སྦས་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཀུན་སྤངས་རྫོགས་ཆེན་པ། །</span></noinclude><br></center>
<center>Renunciate hidden yogi, the Dzogchenpa,<br></center>
<center><noinclude><span class=TibUni16>སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། །།</span></noinclude><br></center>
<center>Sangay Dorjey, at your lotus feet I pray.<br></center>
[[Image:3lamas.jpg|frame|Chatral, Dudjom and Khyentse Rinpoches]]
===Primary Teachers===
*[[Khenpo Ngagchung]]
*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]]<br>
*[[Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro]]
*[[Kalu Rinpoche]]
*5th [[Dzogchen Rinpoche]]
*[[Sera Khandro]]<br>
===Primary Students===
*[[Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje]]
*[[Gyaltsap Redring Jampal Yeshe]]
*[[Dudjom Yangzi]] Rinpoche
*[[Kathok Situ]]
*[[Lopon Jigme]]
*[[Lama Dawa Gyaltsen]]
*[[Lama Sonam Topgye Kazi]]
*[[Lama Tharchin]]
*[[Chogyal Wangchuk Namgyal]]
*[[Shyalpa Jigme Tenzin Wangpo]]
*[[Muktinath Lama Wangyal]] [http://www.muktinath.org/muktinath/lama.htm]
[[Image:ChatralPenor.jpg|frame|Chatral and Penor Rinpoches]]
===Primary Lineage===
*[[Longchen Nyingthig]]<br>
*[[Sera Khandro]] Terma
*[[Dudjom Tersar]]<br>
*[[Jatson Nyingpo]] Terma
*[[Shangpa Kagyu]]<br>
===Primary Monasteries===
*[[Katok Monastery]]
*[[Dzogchen Monastery]]<br>
===Alternative Names===
[[Image:Chatral_Rinpoche_Tiger.jpg|frame|Living Buddha Chatral Rinpoche]]
*Kathok Sangye Dorje
*Buddha Vajra
*Kusuli Sangye Dorje
*[[Chatral Sangye Dorje]]
*[[Chadrel Sangye Dorje]]
*[[Chadral Sangye Dorje]]
*Khatra Sangye Dorje
*Traktung Trowo
====Alternative Spellings====
:*Jadral
:*Jatral
:*Jadrel
:*Jatrel
:*Chadrel
:*Chadral
:*Satrel (Kham Dialect)
===External Links===
*[http://www.rangjung.com/authors/Chatral_Rinpoche_biography.htm A wonderful translated biography of Chatral Rinpoche's life story (rnam thar)]
*[http://www.dudjomba.org/issue1/english/e41.html Dudjomba -- biography, teachings and lineage transmission of Chatral Rinpoche]
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id104.html Chatral Rinpoche Series on Lotsawa House]
*[http://www.shabkar.org/teachers/tibetanbuddhism/chatral_rinpoche.htm Chatral Rinpoche on vegetarianism and the benefits of saving lives | links to articles in PDF]
*'''Dorje Mechar''', ''The Rain of Adamantine Fire'': a link to a PDF of the Tibetan text [http://www.reting.org/DorjeMechar.pdf]
===Internal Links===
*[[A Powerful Message by a Powerful Yogi]] a recorded interview that was transcribed, of Rinpoche's advice about not eating meat.
===Related Publications===
*[[Compassionate Action by Chatral Rinpoche.]]  Edited, introduced and annotated by [[Zachary Larson]]. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2007.
*Chatral Rinpoche. Compassionate Action: the Teachings of Chatral Rinpoche. Kathmandu: Shechen Publications, 2005. Edited with Commentary by [[Zachary Larson]].<br>
===A Long Life Prayer===
::'''In English'''
Through the power and blessings of the undeceiving ocean of the three roots,
May the lotus feet of Sangye Dorje, lord of the dance,
Be firm and everlasting!
May his enlightened activities to benefit the teachings and beings Flourish!
::'''In Wylie'''
bslu med rtsa gsum rgya mtsho'i mthu byin gyis
gar gyi dbang phyug sangs rgyas rdo rje yi
zhabs pad mi g.yo yun du brtan bzhugs nas
bstan 'gro'i don chen mdzad 'phrin mthar rgyas shog
::'''In Tibetan'''
<span class=TibUni14>བསླུ་མེད་རྩ་གསུམ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་མཐུ་བྱིན་གྱིས།</span>
<span class=TibUni14>གར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཡི།</span>
<span class=TibUni14>ཞབས་པད་མི་གཡོ་ཡུན་དུ་བརྟན་བཞུགས་ནས།</span>
<span class=TibUni14>བསྟན་འགྲོའི་དོན་ཆེན་མཛད་འཕྲིན་མཐར་རྒྱས་ཤོག</span>


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Revision as of 18:15, 15 December 2008

The name or rather the title Chatral/Chadrel Rinpoche is one of endearment and has been given many time to a great many different Lamas from all the major and minor lineages of Tibet. It's meaning is quite literally ' Precious Hermit ', and as such is given as a sort of honorific nick-name.

Because of this you may find a searching under this title to produce someone other than whom your intending to look for. Thus here is a list of, broken into the two categorizes of modern and historical, figures know that are sometimes know by the name Chatral/Chadrel Rinpoche.

Modern

Historical

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