Rakra Tupten Chodar

PersonType	Category:Authors of Tibetan Works
MainNamePhon	Rakra Tupten Chodar
MainNameTib	རཀ་ར་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་དར་
MainNameWylie	rak ra thub bstan chos dar
AltNamesOther	Rakra, 6th
bio	Rakra Rinpoche (Rakra Thubten Choedar) was born in 1925 to the governor of Derge. After being recognized as the 6th Rakra incarnate of Pakshoe monastery in Kham, he studied at Pakshoe and then at Drepung (Gomang College) and studied poetry and literature with Gedun Chophel. He excelled as a Geshe, but gave up his monastic vows to his root guru Mogchok Rimpoche shortly before moving to India in 1950. In 1960 Rakra was asked by the Dalai Lama’s brother Taktser Rimpoche, to take charge of Tibetan refugee children at the Pestalozzi International Children’s Village in Switzerland, set up for displaced European children after World War II. He painted, sketched, and wrote often and produced children's books to help educate young Tibetans. “He managed to finish a translation of the travels of the earliest Chinese traveler to India, the monk Fa-hien (faxian) (CE 399-414) in search of the vinaya-pitaka texts (dulwa). He was assisted in this project by his younger brother Tsewang Chogyal. In this translation published by LTWA, Rakra included accounts of early Buddhist sites in India, to complement Fa-hien’s original travelogue. He also completed his first draft of the history of the Tethong family. Rakra Rimpoche passed away on July 10, 2012, at the age of 87. Read more details about his life here and here… (Source Accessed Oct 1, 2024)
YearBirth	1925
YearDeath	July 10, 2012
TibDateGender	Female
TibDateElement	Wood
TibDateAnimal	Ox
TibDateRabjung	15
TibDateDeathDay	22
TibDateDeathMonth	5
TibDateDeathGender	Male
TibDateDeathElement	Water
TibDateDeathAnimal	Dragon
TibDateDeathRabjung	16
ReligiousAffiliation	Geluk
ClassicalProfAff	Drepung Monastery
StudentOf	Gendun Chöpel · blo bzang ye shes bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6079
IsInGyatsa	No
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