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|bio=Kalu Rinpoche was one of the most prominent Tibetan lamas of the twentieth century, active in both exile communities and in the West. As a young man he spent over a decade in isolated retreat, coming out only to serve as retreat master at Tsādra Rinchen Drak. Although never formally enthroned, he was commonly recognized as a reincarnation of Jamgon Kongtrul. In exile he settled in India, where he was a primary teacher to many contemporary Kagyu lamas and served as the main propagator of the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. In the later decades of his life he traveled multiple times to Europe and North America, where he established dharma centers and three-year retreat centers and initiated the translation of Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge into English. (Source: [https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/kalu-rinpoche/12180 Treasury of Lives]) | |||
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|tolExcerpt=Kalu Rinpoche, Karma Rangjung Kunkyab (kar lu rin po che karma rang byung kun khyab), was born in 1905, the wood-snake year of the fifteenth sexagenary cycle. He was born while his parents were in solitary retreat at a hermitage high in the hills not far from Bengen Monastery (ban rgan dgon) in the southern part of the Rongbatsa Valley (rong pa tsha), looking across the valley at the birthplace of the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (karma pa 03 rang byung rdo rje, 1284-1339).[1] This hermitage was connected to Ridak Monastery (ri brag dgon) in Tresho, near Kandze.[2] His birth name is not recorded. He had several brothers and two sisters, one of whom was named Choga (chos dga') who later ordained and lived with her brother. | |||
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* ''The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon''. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1986. | * ''The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon''. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1986. | ||
|BnwShortPersonBio=An important modern meditation master and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. Recognized as an incarnation (sprul sku) of the Karma Bka' brgyud master 'Jam mgon kong sprul, Kalu Rinpoche was ordained at the age of thirteen by the eleventh Situ Rinpoche. Kalu Rinpoche began serious meditation study at an early age, undertaking his first three-year retreat at the age of sixteen. He also received the transmission of the teachings of the Shangs pa sect of Bka' brgyud. He later served as the meditation teacher at Dpal spungs monastery. Following the Chinese invasion, Kalu Rinpoche left Tibet in 1962 and first stayed at a small monastery outside of Darjeeling, India. He later settled in Sonada, West Bengal, where he built a three-year retreat center, teaching there before traveling internationally for ten years (1971–1981). In 1971, he traveled to France and the United States, at the request of the Dalai Lama and the Karma pa, in order to educate Westerners in Buddhism. During those ten years, Kalu Rinpoche founded many meditation and dharma centers in Canada, the United States, and Europe, with his main meditation school in Vancouver, Canada. Kalu Rinpoche led his first three-year retreat for Western students of Tibetan Buddhism in France in 1976. His full name is Kar ma rang 'byung kun khyab phrin las. (Source: "Kalu Rinpoche." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 410. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) | |BnwShortPersonBio=An important modern meditation master and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. Recognized as an incarnation (sprul sku) of the Karma Bka' brgyud master 'Jam mgon kong sprul, Kalu Rinpoche was ordained at the age of thirteen by the eleventh Situ Rinpoche. Kalu Rinpoche began serious meditation study at an early age, undertaking his first three-year retreat at the age of sixteen. He also received the transmission of the teachings of the Shangs pa sect of Bka' brgyud. He later served as the meditation teacher at Dpal spungs monastery. Following the Chinese invasion, Kalu Rinpoche left Tibet in 1962 and first stayed at a small monastery outside of Darjeeling, India. He later settled in Sonada, West Bengal, where he built a three-year retreat center, teaching there before traveling internationally for ten years (1971–1981). In 1971, he traveled to France and the United States, at the request of the Dalai Lama and the Karma pa, in order to educate Westerners in Buddhism. During those ten years, Kalu Rinpoche founded many meditation and dharma centers in Canada, the United States, and Europe, with his main meditation school in Vancouver, Canada. Kalu Rinpoche led his first three-year retreat for Western students of Tibetan Buddhism in France in 1976. His full name is Kar ma rang 'byung kun khyab phrin las. (Source: "Kalu Rinpoche." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 410. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) | ||
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For information about the 2nd Kalu Rinpoche, Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche, see, https://paldenshangpa.org/his-eminence-the-2nd-kalu-rinpoche/ | For information about the 2nd Kalu Rinpoche, Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche, see, https://paldenshangpa.org/his-eminence-the-2nd-kalu-rinpoche/ | ||
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| PersonType | Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers |
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| FirstName / namefirst | Kalu Rinpoche |
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| AltNamesTib | ཀར་ལུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཀརྨ་རང་བྱུང་ཀུན་ཁྱབ |
| AltNamesWylie | kar lu rin po che karma rang byung kun khyab · kar lu rin po che · khyab rje rdo rje 'chang kar lu rin po che · ka.rma rang byung kun khyab · Karma-raṅ-byuṅ-kun-khyab-phrin-las |
| namealt | Karma Rangjung Kunkhyab |
| bio | Kalu Rinpoche was one of the most prominent Tibetan lamas of the twentieth century, active in both exile communities and in the West. As a young man he spent over a decade in isolated retreat, coming out only to serve as retreat master at Tsādra Rinchen Drak. Although never formally enthroned, he was commonly recognized as a reincarnation of Jamgon Kongtrul. In exile he settled in India, where he was a primary teacher to many contemporary Kagyu lamas and served as the main propagator of the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. In the later decades of his life he traveled multiple times to Europe and North America, where he established dharma centers and three-year retreat centers and initiated the translation of Kongtrul's Treasury of Knowledge into English. (Source: Treasury of Lives) |
| YearBirth | 1905 |
| YearDeath | 1989 |
| BornIn | Treshö Gang Chi Rawa district in the Hor region of Kham, Eastern Tibet. |
| languageprimary | Tibetan |
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| Treasury of Lives | https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/kalu-rinpoche/12180 |
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| BnwShortPersonBio | An important modern meditation master and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. Recognized as an incarnation (sprul sku) of the Karma Bka' brgyud master 'Jam mgon kong sprul, Kalu Rinpoche was ordained at the age of thirteen by the eleventh Situ Rinpoche. Kalu Rinpoche began serious meditation study at an early age, undertaking his first three-year retreat at the age of sixteen. He also received the transmission of the teachings of the Shangs pa sect of Bka' brgyud. He later served as the meditation teacher at Dpal spungs monastery. Following the Chinese invasion, Kalu Rinpoche left Tibet in 1962 and first stayed at a small monastery outside of Darjeeling, India. He later settled in Sonada, West Bengal, where he built a three-year retreat center, teaching there before traveling internationally for ten years (1971–1981). In 1971, he traveled to France and the United States, at the request of the Dalai Lama and the Karma pa, in order to educate Westerners in Buddhism. During those ten years, Kalu Rinpoche founded many meditation and dharma centers in Canada, the United States, and Europe, with his main meditation school in Vancouver, Canada. Kalu Rinpoche led his first three-year retreat for Western students of Tibetan Buddhism in France in 1976. His full name is Kar ma rang 'byung kun khyab phrin las. (Source: "Kalu Rinpoche." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 410. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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Names[edit]
Kalu Rinpoche
Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche
Rangjung Kunchab
H.H. Kalu Rinpoche
Wylie:
kar lu rin po che
khyab rje rdo rje 'chang kar lu rin po che
ka.rma rang byung kun khyab
kar lu rin po che ka.rma ran byung kun khyab
mkhan po kar lu ka.rma rang byung kun khyab
Other transliterations in use:
WorldCat: Karma-raṅ-byuṅ-kun-khyab-phrin-las
Karma-raṅ-byuṅ-kun-khyab-phrin-las, Khenpo Kalu
Dates[edit]
b. 1905 in the district of Treshö Gang chi Rawa in the Hor region of Kham
d. May 10, 1989
Other Biographical Information[edit]
Online Bio and links to his sangha: http://www.kdk-nyc.org/hh-kalu-rinpoche
Writings[edit]
Scan of Kalu Rinpoche Hand Written Tibetan Lesson