Kalu Rinpoche
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Kalu Rinpoche
English Phonetics | Kalu Rinpoche |
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Other names
- ཀར་ལུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཀརྨ་རང་བྱུང་ཀུན་ཁྱབ
Alternate names
- Karma Rangjung Kunkhyab
Dates
Birth: | 1905 |
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Death: | 1989 |
Place of birth: | Treshö Gang Chi Rawa district in the Hor region of Kham, Eastern Tibet. |
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About
Primary Language: | Tibetan |
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Publications
- Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism: The Gem Ornament of Manifold Oral Instructions Which Benefits Each and Everyone Appropriately. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.
- Luminous Mind: Fundamentals of Spiritual Practice. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1996.
- Gently Whispered: Oral Teachings by the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche. Compiled, Edited, and Annotated by Elizabeth Selandia. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1995.
- Excellent Buddhism: An Exemplary Life. Translation from Tibetan into French by François Jaquemart. English Translation by Christiane Buchet. San Francisco: ClearPoint Press, 1995.
- Profound Buddhism: From Hinayana to Vajrayana. Translation from Tibetan into French by François Jaquemart. English Translation by Christiane Buchet. San Francisco, ClearPoint Press, 1995.
- Secret Buddhism: Vajrayana Practices. Translation from Tibetan into French by François Jaquemart. English Translation by Christiane Buchet.San Francisco: ClearPoint Press, 2002.
- The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1986.
Links
- Wiki Pages
Buddha Nature Project
- Person description or short bio
- 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
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
b. 1905 in the district of Treshö Gang chi Rawa in the Hor region of Kham
d. May 10, 1989
Other Biographical Information
Online Bio and links to his sangha: http://www.kdk-nyc.org/hh-kalu-rinpoche
Writings
Scan of Kalu Rinpoche Hand Written Tibetan Lesson