Alak Zenkar Rinpoche

PersonType	Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Category:Authors of Tibetan Works
FirstName / namefirst	Tudeng
LastName / namelast	Nima
MainNamePhon	Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
MainNameTib	ཨ་ལགས་གཟན་དཀར་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཉི་མ་
MainNameWylie	a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma
namesuffix	Rinpoche
SortName	Zenkar, Alak
AltNamesWylie	gzan dkar mchog sprul thub bstan nyi ma  ·  a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma  ·  gzan dkar rin po che  ·  gzan dkar thub bstan nyi ma
namealt	Alak Zenkar Rinpoche  ·  Zenkar Rinpoche  ·  Zenkar Rinpoché  ·  Alak Zenkar Rinpoché  ·  Alek Zenkar Rinpoche  ·  Alak Zenkar Rinpoche Tupten Nyima  ·  Tudeng Nima  ·  Tudeng Nima Rinpoche
bio	Tudeng Nima is the 2nd Alak Zenkar Rinpoche. The 1st Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, Pema Ngödrup Rolpai Dorjé, lived from 1881 to 1943. For a short biography, see Tulku Thondup, Masters of Meditation and Miracles (Shambhala Publications, 1996), 275–77. Tudeng Nima Rinpoche is the Director of the Paltseg Tibetan Rare Texts Research Center, TBRC board member, visiting scholar at the University of Virginia, and board member of the China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture. In 2000-2003, he was a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University in the East Asian Institute. From 2004 to the present he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia. Tudeng Nima Rinpoche has written many papers for which he has received numerous awards. He has rescued and reproduced thousands of important and rare Tibetan texts. He has made outstanding contributions to Tibetan culture and education and is renowned as one of the world’s leading Tibetan Buddhist scholars. (Adapted from BDRC September 17, 2020) Rigpa Wiki Bio
YearBirth	1943
languageprimary	Tibetan
affiliation	Director–Paltseg Tibetan Rare Texts Research Center (dpal brtsegs bod yig dpe rnying zhib 'jug khang); Creator and lead editor for the series Ancestor's Legacies (mes po'i shul bzhag)
IsInGyatsa	No
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Names

Tibetan:

ཨ་ལགས་གཟན་དཀར་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཉི་མ་

Wylie:

• gzan dkar mchog sprul thub bstan nyi ma
• a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma
• gzan dkar rin po che
• gzan dkar thub bstan nyi ma

Other Transliterations in use:

• Zenkar Rinpoche
• Zenkar Rinpoché
• Alak Zenkar Rinpoché
• Alek Zenkar Rinpoche
• Alak Zenkar Rinpoche Tupten Nyima
• Tudeng Nima
• Tudeng Nima Rinpoche

Note: "gzan dkar" means "white shawl"