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2025

Lista de Rinpoches tibetanos

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, también escrito como Rimboche y Rinboku, es un término honorífico utilizado en el idioma tibetano.

Literalmente significa «precioso», y puede referirse a una persona, lugar o cosa—similar a las palabras «gema» o «joya».

La palabra se compone de rin (valor), po (sufijo nominalizador) y chen (grande).

En el contexto del budismo tibetano, se utiliza como una forma de mostrar respeto al dirigirse a aquellos reconocidos como reencarnaciones, ancianos, respetados, notables, eruditos y/o Lamas o maestros del Dharma consumados.

También se emplea como un honorífico para los abades de monasterios budistas.

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Rinpoche

Rinpoche es un honorífico utilizado en el budismo tibetano. Literalmente significa «precioso», y se utiliza para dirigirse o describir a los lamas tibetanos y otros maestros de alto rango o respetados. Este honor generalmente se otorga por defecto a los lamas reencarnados, o Tulkus. En otros casos, se gana con el tiempo y a menudo se otorga espontáneamente por los estudiantes del maestro.

Padmasambhava

(Tib.: Guru Rinpoche) es el fundador indio del budismo tántrico en el Tíbet. En el siglo XI, con el surgimiento de la tradición del Tesoro Revelado (Tib.: terma), el culto a Padmasambhava adquirió un estatus de culto. Se crearon cientos de nuevas formas de deidades de Padmasambhava que representan todos los aspectos de la iconografía y la actividad tántrica; pacífica, colérica, masculina, femenina, riqueza, poder, sanación, etc.

Je Tsongkhapa

Tsongkhapa, generalmente entendido como «el Hombre del Valle de Cebollas», nacido en Amdo, fue un famoso maestro del budismo tibetano cuyas actividades llevaron a la formación de la escuela Gelug del budismo tibetano. También es conocido por su nombre ordenado Losang Drakpa o simplemente como «Je Rinpoche». Además, es conocido en chino como Zongkapa Lobsang Zhaba. Fue el hijo de un líder tribal Longben tibetano que también sirvió una vez como funcionario de la Dinastía Yuan de China.

Jamgon Kongtrul

Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé, también conocido como Jamgön Kongtrül el Grande, fue un erudito budista tibetano, poeta, artista, médico, tertön y polímata. Fue uno de los budistas tibetanos más prominentes del siglo XIX y se le atribuye ser uno de los fundadores del movimiento Rimé (no sectario), compilando lo que se conoce como los «Cinco Grandes Tesoros». Alcanzó gran renombre como erudito y escritor, especialmente entre las líneas Nyingma y Kagyu, y compuso más de 90 volúmenes de escritos budistas, incluyendo su obra maestra, El Tesoro del Conocimiento.

Shamarpa

El , también conocido como Shamar Rinpoche, o más formalmente Künzig Shamar Rinpoche, es un portador de linaje de la escuela Karma Kagyu del budismo tibetano y se considera la manifestación mental de Amitābha. Tradicionalmente se le asocia con el monasterio de Yangpachen cerca de Lhasa.

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

, también conocido por su título de tertön, Pema Ösel Dongak Lingpa, fue un renombrado maestro, erudito y tertön del Tíbet del siglo XIX. Fue una figura destacada en el movimiento Rimé.

Sakya Trizin

es el título tradicional del líder de la escuela Sakya del budismo tibetano. La escuela Sakya fue fundada en 1073 d.C., cuando Khön Könchog Gyalpo, un miembro de la noble familia Khön de Tíbet, estableció un monasterio en la región de Sakya, Tíbet, que se convirtió en la sede de la orden Sakya. Desde entonces, su liderazgo ha descendido dentro de la familia Khön. El 41º Sakya Trizin, cuyo reinado abarcó más de cincuenta años, fue el Sakya Trizin con el reinado más largo. El actual Sakya Trizin es Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, conocido oficialmente como Kyabgon Gongma Trizin Rinpoche, el 43º Sakya Trizin Gyana Vajra Rinpoche.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

is a Tibetan teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

He has authored two best-selling books and oversees the Tergar Meditation Community, a global network of Buddhist meditation centers.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

or Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso is a Nepalese Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author, and the founder of the Pundarika Foundation. He is the third Tsoknyi Rinpoche, having been recognized by the 16th Karmapa as the reincarnation of Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche. He is a tulku of the Drukpa Kagyü and Nyingma traditions and the holder of the Ratna Lingpa and Tsoknyi lineages.

Karma Chagme

El nombre se refiere a un lama budista tibetano (Vajrayāna) del siglo XVII y a la línea tülku que él inició. Se han reconocido siete tülkus de Karma Chagme, incluyendo el primero. La subescuela Neydo Kagyu del Karma Kagyu fue establecida por el primer Karma Chagme, Rāga Asya.

Namkhai Norbu

fue un maestro tibetano de Dzogchen. Cuando tenía dos años, Namkhai Norbu fue reconocido como la ‘emanación del flujo mental’, un tulku, del maestro de Dzogchen Adzom Drugpa (1842–1924). A los cinco años, también fue reconocido como una emanación del flujo mental de una emanación de Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594–1651). Desde una edad temprana, Namkhai Norbu emprendió un curso acelerado de estudios, asistiendo a un colegio monástico, realizando retiros y estudiando con maestros renombrados, incluidos algunos de los más importantes maestros tibetanos de su tiempo. Bajo la tutela de estos maestros, completó la formación requerida por la tradición budista en Sutrayana y Tantrayana. A la edad de dieciséis años, conoció al maestro Rigdzin Changchub Dorje (1826–1961/1978), quien se convirtió en su principal maestro de Dzogchen.

Dilgo Khyentse

Rinpoche fue un maestro de Vajrayana, erudito, poeta, profesor y cabeza de la escuela Nyingma del budismo tibetano desde 1987 hasta 1991. Como el principal custodio de las enseñanzas de Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Dilgo Khyentse fue el custodio de facto de la gran mayoría de las enseñanzas del budismo tibetano. Enseñó a muchos maestros eminentes, incluido el Dalai Lama. Su esfuerzo personal fue crucial en la preservación del budismo tibetano.

Garchen Rinpoche

es un maestro budista tibetano de la línea Drikung Kagyu. Se cree que es una encarnación de Siddha Gar Chodingpa, un discípulo del corazón de Jigten Sumgön, fundador de la línea Drikung Kagyu en el siglo XIII d.C. También se cree que se ha encarnado como Mahasiddha Aryadeva en la antigua India, el discípulo nacido del loto del propio Nagarjuna. Era conocido como Lonpo Gar, el ministro del rey del dharma tibetano Songtsen Gampo en el siglo VII d.C.

Chögyam Trungpa fue un maestro de meditación budista y portador de las líneas Kagyu y Nyingma, el undécimo tülku Trungpa, un tertön, supremo abad de los monasterios Surmang, erudito, maestro, poeta, artista y originador de una representación radical de la visión de Shambhala.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

is a Nepali lama from Khumbu, the entryway to Mount Everest.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a Gelugpa lineage holder, having received teachings from many of the great Gelugpa masters.

His Root Guru is HH since he was a young boy studying in Buxa, India.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a devoted student of the 14th Dalai Lama and has outlined that offering service to the Dalai Lama as much as possible and to be able to fulfill his wishes is the highest priority for the FPMT organization.

Lama Gonpo Tseten

Gonpo Tseten Rinpoche (1906–1991) was a Dzogchen master, author, painter, sculptor, and teacher of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Among Lama Gönpo Tseten’s artistic works are two murals in Clement Town, Dhera Dun, India: «Amitabha in Dewachen» at Tashi Gommo Gelugpa Monastery, and «Mount Meru and the Universe System» at the Nyingmapa Lamas College.

He also painted a large thangka of the Longchen Nyingtik Refuge Tree and smaller thangkas of Padmasambhava and Vajrakilaya, some of which he gave to Rinpoche.

Subsequently, the main figure of Guru Rinpoche of Lama Gönpo’s painting was used as the cover for the Padmakara Translation Group’s translation of White Lotus by the 1st Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche.

Sakyong Mipham

Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, Jampal Trinley Dradul, es el cabeza de la línea Shambhala y Shambhala, una red mundial de centros de meditación budista urbanos, centros de retiro, monasterios, una universidad y otras empresas, fundada por su padre, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Rinpoche es un alto lama en la línea Nyingma del budismo tibetano. En julio de 2018, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche declaró que se está alejando de sus deberes debido a una investigación sobre su presunta conducta sexual inapropiada.

Dudjom Lingpa

(1835–1904) fue un maestro de meditación tibetano, maestro espiritual y tertön. Se destaca de la norma de los maestros budistas tibetanos en el sentido de que no tuvo educación formal, ni tomó ordenación como monje o perteneció a ninguna escuela o tradición budista establecida de su tiempo. Fue recibido con gran escepticismo por muchos de sus contemporáneos, debido al hecho de que, a pesar de no haber estudiado bajo ningún maestro budista establecido de su época, afirmaba recibir enseñanzas sobre meditación y práctica espiritual directamente de maestros no físicos como Guru Rinpoche y Yeshe Tsogyal, así como de deidades como Avalokitesvara y Manjushri. No fue hasta que sus discípulos comenzaron a mostrar claros signos de madurez espiritual, que fue aceptado por sus contemporáneos como un maestro auténtico y tertön. Hoy en día, sus enseñanzas y obras literarias, especialmente las sobre no-meditación (dzogchen), son muy valoradas dentro de la tradición Nyingma del budismo tibetano.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop is an abbot of Dzogchen Monastery, founder and spiritual director of Nalandabodhi, founder of Nītārtha Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies, a leading Tibetan Buddhist scholar, and a meditation master. He is one of the highest tülkus in the Nyingma lineage and an accomplished Karma Kagyu lineage holder.

Patrul Rinpoche

(1808–1887) fue un maestro y autor destacado de la escuela Nyingma del budismo tibetano. Sus discípulos incluyeron a maestros de la escuela Nyingma como Kathok Situ Choktrul Chökyi Lodrö, el Quinto Dzogchen Rinpoche Thubten Chökyi Dorje, Gyarong Namtrul Kunzang Thekchok Dorje, los segundo y tercero Dodrupchens, Jikme Phuntsok Jungne y Jikmé Tenpe Nyima, Dechen Rigpé Raldri, quien era hijo de Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje, Khenpo Shenga, Adzom Druktrul Droddul Dorje, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa, Jamgon Ju Mipham Gyatso, Khenpo Pema Vajra, Nyoshul Lungtok, Alak Dongak Gyatso y otros. Además, sus discípulos incluyeron a muchos maestros de las escuelas Sakya, Gelugpa y Kagyü, como Sershul Lharampa Thubten, Palpung Lama Tashi Özer y Ju Lama Drakpa Gyaltsen.

Jamgön Ju Mipham, or Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyamtso (1846–1912) was a very influential philosopher and polymath of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He wrote over 32 volumes on topics such as painting, poetics, sculpture, alchemy, medicine, logic, philosophy and tantra. Mipham’s works are still central to the scholastic curriculum in Nyingma monasteries today. Mipham is also considered one of the leading figures in the Ri-me (non-sectarian) movement in Tibet.

Namgyal Rinpoche

, Karma Tenzin Dorje (1931–2003), born Leslie George Dawson in Toronto, Canada, was a Tibetan Buddhist lama in the Karma Kagyu tradition.

Thrangu Rinpoche

nació en 1933 en Kham, Tíbet. Se le considera un tulku prominente en la escuela Kagyu del budismo tibetano, la novena reencarnación en su línea particular.

Thubten Jigme Norbu

, reconocido como el Taktser Rinpoche, fue un lama tibetano, escritor, activista de derechos civiles y profesor de estudios tibetanos, y es el hermano mayor del 14º Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Fue uno de los primeros tibetanos de alto perfil en exiliarse y el primero en establecerse en los Estados Unidos.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

fue un maestro budista de las tradiciones Kagyü y Nyingma que vivió en el ermita de Nagi Gompa en Nepal. Urgyen Rinpoche fue considerado uno de los más grandes maestros de Dzogchen de su tiempo. Tulku Urgyen fue el autor de la obra en dos volúmenes «As It Is», que trata sobre el tema de la vacuidad. Sus principales transmisiones fueron el Chokling Tersar y la instrucción de señalización.

Akong Rinpoche

Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche fue un tulku en la escuela Kagyu del budismo tibetano y fundador del Monasterio Samye Ling en Escocia.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

is a teacher (lama) of the Bon Tibetan religious tradition. He is founder and director of the Ligmincha Institute and several centers named Chamma Ling, organizations dedicated to the study and practice of the teachings of the Bon tradition.

Penor Rinpoche

Kyabjé Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche fue el 11º titular del trono de la Línea Palyul de la escuela Nyingma del budismo tibetano, y se dice que es una encarnación de Vimalamitra. Fue ampliamente reconocido en el mundo del budismo tibetano como un maestro de Dzogchen. Fue uno de los muy pocos maestros que quedaban de su generación que recibió toda su formación en el Tíbet bajo la guía de lo que los budistas tibetanos consideran maestros completamente iluminados.

Rigdzin Namkha Gyatso Rinpoche

is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher living in Lausanne (Switzerland).

Orgyen Tobgyal

Rinpoche, also called Tulku Ugyen Topgyal, is a Tibetan Buddhist lama who was born in Kham in Eastern Tibet in 1951, living in exile in India.

Nenang Pawo

is one of the highest lamas of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Pawos form a lineage of tulkus, of which the first was born in 1440. They were traditionally the heads of Nenang Monastery in Ü-Tsang.

Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

Lithang Tulku or Tenzing Deleg was a Tibetan Buddhist leader from Garze, Sichuan. He was born in Lithang, Tibet. He was arrested on April 7, 2002 during a raid on Jamyang Choekhorling in Garze, Sichuan, China. He was accused of being involved in a bomb attack on April 3, 2002 on the central square of Sichuan’s provincial capital, Chengdu.

Samdhong Rinpoche

is a Tibetan religious title. Rinpoche means «precious one». The current Samdhong Rinpoche is , who is considered by Tibetan buddhists to be the reincarnation of the 4th Samdhong Rinpoche.

Second Beru Khyentse

The (1947–), born Thupten Sherap is a lineage holder of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and the third reincarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892).

Tenga Rinpoche

(1932–2012) was a Tibetan teacher (lama) in the Karma Kagyu tradition.

Lopon Tsechu

Rinpoche fue un maestro del budismo tibetano, ampliamente reconocido en el Himalaya, con muchos estudiantes tanto en Oriente como en Occidente.

Tenzin Jigme

was a Tibetan tulku and the sixth Reting Rinpoche.

Tenzin Ösel Hita is a Tibetan Buddhist tulku and an aspiring filmmaker from Spain.

Trulshik Rinpoche

Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö, nacido en Yardrok Taklung, Tíbet Central, fue uno de los principales maestros del 14º Dalai Lama y de muchos de la generación más joven de lamas Nyingma en la actualidad, incluyendo a . Se le considera el heredero espiritual de varios maestros Nyingma senior del siglo pasado, como Dudjom Rinpoche y Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Rinpoche es el tema de un documental titulado «Destruidor de Ilusiones» narrado por Richard Gere. Trulshik Rinpoche fundó el monasterio de Thubten Chöling en Nepal. En 2010 se convirtió en el jefe oficial de la escuela Nyingma.

Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche

, a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism, was renowned as a teacher, writer, and master of Vajrayana ceremonies within the Nyingma tradition. Recognized as the fourth reincarnation of Chokgyur Lingpa by the 16th Karmapa, he upheld the Chokling Tersar lineage of teachings. Born as the second son of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, he was deeply connected to a lineage of prominent Buddhist masters. Chokling Rinpoche oversaw various monasteries and centers across Tibet, India, Bhutan, and Sikkim, contributing significantly to the propagation and preservation of Tibetan Buddhist practices. His legacy continues through his teachings and writings, impacting countless practitioners worldwide.

Wangdrak Rinpoche

is the abbot of Gebchak Gonpa, holding responsibility for the nuns’ spiritual training and their material well-being.

Yeshe Losal

Lama Rinpoche es un lama de la escuela Kagyu del budismo tibetano y abad del Monasterio Kagyu Samye Ling y Centro Tibetano en Escocia, el primero y más grande de su tipo en Occidente.

Mindrolling Trichen

The eleventh , Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal Standard Tibetan: འགྱུར་མེད་ཀུན་བཟང་དབང་རྒྱལ་ was a lama of the Nyingma-school, the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism and had been responsible for the administrative affairs for the school in exile as the ceremonial head of the lineage.

He is generally regarded as one of the greatest Tibetan masters.

Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche

Antes de su nacimiento el 30 de junio de 1965, fue reconocido por el 16º Gyalwa Karmapa como la duodécima encarnación de los Gharwang Tulkus y como una emanación de Tilopa. Es el supremo portador de la línea de transmisión susurrada de Zurmang.

Choseng Trungpa

Rinpoche is the 12th and current Trungpa tülku.

He was born on February 6, 1989 in Pawo village, in Derge, eastern Tibet, and recognized by Tai Situ Rinpoche in 1991.

He was enthroned a year later at Surmang Monastery at a ceremony presided over by Domkhar Rinpoche, a high Kagyu lama and Choseng’s uncle.

The monastery’s late abbot, was Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen

(Thubten) or Thupten Jampel Yishey Gyantsen, Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wylie: thub-bstan ‘jam-dpal ye-shes rgyal-mtshan was a Tibetan tulku and the fifth Reting Rinpoche.

Kyabje Rinpoche

Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche, was a Buddhist monk, Abbot of Sera Jey Monastery, and the founder of Tibetan Buddhist Institute (Adelaide). Khensur means «former abbot» and Rinpoche means «precious teacher».

Chimé Rigdzin Rinpoche, popularly known as “C.R. Lama”, was an important lineage holder of the Northern Treasures tradition in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

, was the second Dudjom Rinpoche. He was recognized as a direct rebirth of Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1904) and was also later appointed the first supreme head of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by the fourteenth Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration.

Goshir Gyaltsab

Rinpoche es un lama encarnado (tulku) destacado en la línea Karma Kagyu del budismo tibetano. Sus seguidores creen que encarna la actividad de Vajrapani.

Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin

Rinpoche (1921–2004) was a scholar of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche

, also called «Khen Rinpoche,» is a teacher, a scholar, a lama, and a Dzogchen master in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was considered by to be one of the most learned Nyingma scholars alive. Among other notable activities, he founded the first nunnery in Deer Park (Sarnath), the Orgyen Samye Chokhor Ling Nunnery.

Shukseb Jetsunma Chönyi Zangmo (1852–1953) was the most well known of the yoginis in the 1900s, and was considered an incarnation of Machig Lapdron. She was the abbess of Shukseb nunnery, and was a Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist teacher. She made the nunnery once again into a center for the special teachings of the Shugseb Kagyu. The nunnery still exists in Tibet today, and in fact is one of its most active nunneries.

Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

Khenpo Karma , widely known by his abbreviated name , is a senior lama of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. As of 2016 he serves as abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) Monastery in Woodstock, NY.

Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche is a prominent scholar yogi in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He teaches widely in the West, often through songs of realization, his own as well as those composed by Milarepa and other masters of the past. «Tsültrim Gyamtso» translates to English as «Ocean of Ethical Conduct».

Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga

served as the 41st Sakya Trizin, the throne holder of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, from his appointment in 1952 until his retirement in 2017. His religious name is Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar Trinley Samphel Wangyi Gyalpo. After passing the throne of the Sakya lineage to his elder son who became the 42nd Sakya Trizin on 9 March 2017, he is now known as Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche. He is considered second only to the Dalai Lama, in the spiritual hierarchy of Tibetan Buddhism.

Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

(1955–2012) was the ninth incarnation of the Traleg tulku line, a line of high lamas in the Kagyu lineage of Vajrayana. He was a pioneer in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to Australia.

Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoché is a Tibetan Buddhist Rimé Master. Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodro Rinpoché teaches predominantly the extensive Kalachakra system according to the Jonang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the founder and spiritual director of Tibetan Buddhist Rimé Institute or Tong Zuk Dechen Ling (Tib.). He translated the Jonang Kalachakra practice texts, and pith instructions, into English and Chinese.

Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche

Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche is the abbot of Mardo Tashi Choling in Eastern Tibet. He established a retreat center there. He created the shedra, a formal Buddhist monastic teaching, under the direct guidance of his teacher Khenpo Jigmed Phuntsok Rinpoche. He directs the education and spiritual practice of three hundred monks, seventy advanced-degree candidates, sixty children, and twenty full-time retreatants.

Thinley Norbu

Kyabjé Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was a major modern teacher in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and patron of the Vajrayana Foundation. He was the eldest son of Dudjom Rinpoche, the former head of the Nyingma lineages, and also the father of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche and Dungse Garab Rinpoche. His association with the Dudjom Lineage is a long one: he is held to be the incarnation of Tulku Drime Oser, who was one of seven sons of Dudjom Lingpa. He also was considered to be an emanation of Longchen Rabjam, the great 14th-century Nyingma scholar and siddha who composed the Seven Treasuries. He died in California on December 26, 2011, according to the Tibetan Buddhist Lunar Calendar the 2nd day of the 11th month of the Iron Rabbit year. His cremation was held in a public buddhist cremation ceremony in Paro, Bhutan on March 3rd, 2012, which was attended by several thousand people, including some of Bhutan’s royal family.

Dzogchen Ranyak Patrul Rinpoche

is a Tibetan lama, teacher and author in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Centre Belgium, a branch of the Dzogchen Monastery in Tibet.

Third Bardor Tulku Rinpoche

The ’ is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, a holder of the religious lineage of Terchen Barway Dorje. Rinpoche is the founder of a Tibetan Buddhist center, Kunzang Palchen Ling, and the Raktrul Foundation, in Red Hook, New York.

Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo, (1878–1941) was a Gelug lama of the modern era of Tibetan Buddhism. He attained his Geshe degree at Sera Mey Monastic University, Lhasa, and became a highly influential teacher in Tibet, unusual for teaching a great number of lay people. Pabongkha was offered the regency of the present Dalai Lama but declined the request because «he strongly disliked political affairs.»

Kwetsang Rinpoche

was a lama of Sera who participated in the search for Tenzin Gyatso four years after Thubten Gyatso died.

Ogyen Trinley Dorje

, also written Urgyen Trinley Dorje (Wylie: U-rgyan ‘Phrin-las Rdo-rje ; is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa Lama.

Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche

Nyoshül Khenpo Rinpoche (1932–1999), more fully Nyoshül Khenpo Jamyang Dorje, was a Tibetan lama born in the Derge region of Kham.

Chatral Sangye Dorje

Rinpoche was a Dzogchen master and a reclusive yogi known for his great realization and strict discipline. Rinpoche was one of the few living disciples of Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang and was widely regarded as one of the most highly realized Dzogchen yogis. In addition to his relationship with Khenpo Ngagchung, Chatral Sangye Dorje also studied with some of the last century’s most renowned masters, including Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, and the famed Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo. Rinpoche was 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.

Tharchin Rinpoche

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche was a Tibetan Dzogchen master in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was tenth holder of the family lineage known as the Repkong Ngakpas.

Azin Rinpoche

Azin or Andzin Rinpoche is an incarnate lama (tulku) in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism associated with Palnge Monastery in Gegyal.

Their reincarnations have been known for strict retreat practices and diligence in mastering the sutras.

They have also been closely associated with Sherap Monastery and Tai Situpa as many of the reincarnations received their education there.

Lama Jigme Rinpoche (Kagyu)

Lama Jigme Rinpoche is an author and teacher in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born into the family of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, he is the brother of the late 14th Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chokyi Lodro. The 16th Karmapa appointed Lama Jigme Rinpoche as his European representative. He asked him to oversee the development of a shedra (university), library, retreat center, and monastery at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling in Dordogne, France, where Jigme Rinpoche is currently the main representative of and head of the monastery.

Lobsang Tenzin

Lobsang Tenzin, better known by the titles Professor Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche and to Tibetans as the 5th Samdhong Rinpoche, was the previous prime minister, of the Central Tibetan Administration, or Tibetan government-in-exile, which is based in Dharamshala, India; Lobsang Sangay was elected to this position in April 2011.

Alak Jigme Thinley Lhundup Rinpoche

Alak Jigme Thinley Lhundup or Alak Jigme Lhundup Rinpoche was a Tibetan Tulku, as well as the former speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile and former Minister with the exile Tibet administration.

Dezhung Rinpoche

Kunga Tenpai Nyima, nacido Ngawang Zangpo, (1906–1987) fue un lama tibetano de la escuela Sakya, una de las cuatro principales escuelas del budismo tibetano. En 1960 llegó a Seattle, Washington en los Estados Unidos de América, siendo uno de los primeros lamas tibetanos en establecerse y enseñar en los Estados Unidos.

Lodi Gyari

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari Rinpoche, Kasur or «as he is universally known to the Tibetan-speaking world, Gyari Rinpoche» was a Tibetan politician, and journalist who served as the 14th Dalai Lama’s special envoy to the United States. Exiled to India in 1959, he was also the executive chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Geshe Ngawang Kalsang, later known as, is a Geluk tradition reincarnate Lama of Tibetan Buddhism. The lineage includes Je Pabongka Rinpoche, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, and Geshe Jampa Chombe.

Denma Locho Rinpoche

was a Tibetan recognized incarnate lama of the Loseling College of Drepung Monastery. He is an incomparable luminary of ’s lineage and the ex-abbot of Namgyal Monastery. He hails from Drepung Loseling. Upon receiving the Geshe degree in Tibet, he entered the Tantric College in Upper-Lhasa. He is also a teacher of Kyabje . Locho Rinpoche has been an honored guest of Jewel Heart several times and Drepung Loseling Monastery USA as well as in the Netherlands.

Trinley Thaye Dorje

Trinley Thaye Dorje is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.

Dagpo Rinpoche

, also known as Bamchoe Rinpoche, is a lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

is the head of the Trungram lineage and one of the highest tulkus of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He has received extensive transmissions of the Nyingma lineages, and teaches in the spirit of the nonsectarian Rimé movement. He is also the first incarnate lama to earn a Ph.D. in the West, having completed a doctoral program in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Harvard University. Widely recognized for his ability to modernize ancient Buddhist teachings for today’s challenges, he is dedicated to the value of education in bringing wisdom to life. To realize this vision, he has founded organizations throughout Asia and the United States.

Chadrel Rinpoche

, also known as his dharma name Jampa Trinley, is a Gelug lama of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1954, he joined the Tashilhunpo Monastery at the age of 15. He was a close disciple of Choekyi Gyaltsen, the 10th Panchen Lama. Later, he became the khenpo of the Tashilhunpo Monastery. Chadrel Rinpoche was instructed to lead the Chinese efforts to install a substitute 11th Panchen Lama, but he instead aided efforts to locate the authentic reincarnation, and to recognize Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in 1995. As a result, he was arrested, imprisoned, the held under house arrest until his reported death from a suspicious poisoning in 2011. He was also a Member of the 7th and 8th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Trijang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso

The Third Trijang Rinpoche, Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (1901–1981) was a Gelug Lama and a direct disciple of Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo. He succeeded Ling Rinpoche as the junior tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama when the Dalai Lama was nineteen years old. He was also a lama of many Gelug Lamas who taught in the West including Zong Rinpoche, Geshe Rabten and Lama Yeshe. Trijang Rinpoche’s oral teachings were recorded by Zimey Rinpoche in a book called the Yellow Book.

Sershul Triwa Rinpoche

Gelek Rimpoche

Kyabje Nawang Gehlek Rimpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist lama born in Lhasa, Tibet on October 26, 1939. His personal name was Gelek; kyabje and rimpoche, are titles meaning «teacher» and «precious,» respectively. He was a tulku, an incarnate lama of Drepung Monastic University, where he received the scholastic degree of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree given, at the exceptionally young age of 20. The 14th Dalai Lama said «he completed his traditional Buddhist training as a monk in Tibet prior to the Chinese Takeover.»

Paltul Rinpoche

Ven. is a Baram Kagyü lineage holder, one of the four major sub-schools of the Kagyü Order in Tibetan Buddhism. There are four major orders in Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet. The present Paltul Rinpoche is the fifth lineage holder of the previous four masters of Tibetan Healing Arts and Meditation. He also is the teacher and head of Demo Monastery, located in the Nangchen region of Kham, Eastern Tibet. His Demo Monastery also incorporates a Traditional Institute of Medicine and Tibetan Astrology, as well as a hospital for the local nomadic population.

Lopön Tenzin Namdak is a Tibetan religious leader and the most senior teacher of Bon, in particular of Dzogchen and the Mother Tantras.

Minling Khenchen Rinpoche

According to Tibetan Buddhism the IXth is the successive reincarnation of the Minling Kenrab lineage, co-administrator of Mindrolling Monastery and Head Abbot In-Charge of Ngagyur Nyingma College in India, Vajrayana master, scholar, and teacher.

20th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche

, Thubstan Nawang or Stanzin Nawang Jigmed Wangchuk, was born to Yab Dorjey Tsering and Yum Sonam Dolkar in Kyagar village in Nubra valley in Ladakh and has been introduced to the monastic life in Samstanling Gonpa before enthroned on 12 August 2010 in Pethup Gonpa in Spituk. He is believed to be the 20th incarnation of .

Kyabje Choden Rinpoche

(Kyabje) Choden Rinpoche was a contemporary yogi-scholar of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism and a reincarnation (sprul-sku) of the Choden lineage, the historical abbots of Rabten Monastery (Tibetan: རབ་བརྟེན་དགོན་པ, Wylie: in Rong-bo district, Kham.

Neten Chokling

Rinpoche, also referred as to the Fourth Neten Chokling Rinpoche, is a Tibetan actor.

Kushok Bakula Rinpoche

Kushok Bakula Rinpoche is nowadays the head of Pethup Gompa in Spituk, Ladakh, India. According to his followers he is an emanation of the Buddha Amitabha and was one of the 16 disciples of Buddha. They also claim that his first 19 incarnations have been documented in the Tibetan text Naytan Chagchot.

Khyongla Rato

, also known as Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, Rato Khyongla Rinpoche, Khyongla Rinpoche and also as Nawang Losang, his monk’s name, is a scholar and teacher in the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in what was then the Kham region of Tibet, and was recognized as an incarnate lama at an early age. He spent over 30 years of his life as a monk studying in the monasteries of Tibet and receiving teachings from many highly qualified lamas.

Taklung Ma Rinpoche

Tenzin Kunzang Jigme Rinpoche, the seventh , was born in 1977 to Ngawang Tendar and Deden Zangmo.

Khunu Rinpoche

Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, 1894–1977, known also as Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen, Tenzin Gyaltsen, and various other names like Kunu Rinpoche, Kunu Lama and Negi Lama, was born in 1894 in the village of Sunam which lies in the forest-clad Kinnaur district of India in the western Himalayas. was neither a tulku nor a Buddhist monk but a layman who took the lay practitioner’s vows.

Ratna Vajra Rinpoche

Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and the 42nd and current Sakya Trizin, considered one of the highest qualified lineage masters of both the esoteric and exoteric traditions of Buddhist philosophy and meditation. He is a descendant of the famous Khon family in Tibet, which holds an unbroken lineage of great and famous masters for over a thousand years. He is the eldest son of the 41st Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga. He teaches Buddhism and travels extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Ratna Vajra was enthroned as the head of the Sakya school on 9 March 2017.

Khensur Lungri Namgyel

Trisur Rinpoche Jetsun Lungrik Namgyal, also known as , was born in 1927 in Kham was the 101st Gaden Tripa, the leader of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

Samding Dorje Phagmo

The is the highest female incarnation in Tibet and the third highest-ranking person in the hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. She was listed among the highest-ranking reincarnations at the time of the 5th Dalai Lama, recognized by the Tibetan government and acknowledged by the emperors of Qing China. In her first incarnation, as Chökyi Drönma, she was the student and consort of the famous polymath Thang Tong Gyalpo, who first identified her as a tulku of Vajravārāhī, and the consort of Bodong Panchen. The seat of the Samding Dorje Phagmo is at Samding Monastery, in Tibet.

Lodrö Chökyi Nyima was recognized as the 4th reincarnation of the in August 1996 by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, who gave the name Jamgon Lodro Chokyi Nyima Dronme Chok Thamced Le Nampar Gyalwe De. He was born on November 26, 1995 in Chushur Dzong, near Chushur Dzong, in Central Tibet. This recognition was confirmed by the 14th Dalai Lama, Sakya Trizin, the head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, and Mindroling Trichen, the now deceased head of the Nyingma tradition. All three performed hair-cutting ceremonies and bestowed names, as is traditional. As the reincarnation of Jamgon Kongtrul, Lodrö is entitled to be styled «rinpoche».

Kalu Rinpoche

was a Buddhist lama, meditation master, scholar and teacher. He was one of the first Tibetan masters to teach in the West.

Shenphen Rinpoche

is the spiritual teacher of Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling.

19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche

was a Buddhist lama, who also served as India’s ambassador to Mongolia. He is mainly known for his efforts in reviving Buddhism in Mongolia and Russia by linking them with the community of Tibetan exiles in India.

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