Ösel Tendzin

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Western Buddhist Teachers
FirstName / namefirst	Ösel
LastName / namelast	Tendzin
MainNamePhon	Ösel Tendzin
SortName	Tendzin, Ösel
bio	Ösel Tendzin (Thomas F. Rich) was Vajra Regent and dharma heir of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. As such, he was the first American accepted as a lineage holder of the Kagyu tradition of vajrayana Buddhism. Osel Tendzin was co-founder of Shambhala Training and author of Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand. Following Trungpa Rinpoche’s death in 1987, he was President of Vajradhatu and the Nalanda Foundation until his own death in 1990. (Source Accessed Oct 2, 2024)
YearBirth	1943
YearDeath	1990
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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.