Urgyen, Tulku

Names

Tibetan: སྤྲུ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
Wylie:

• sprul sku o rgyan rin po che
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
  
• Urgyen Rinpoche
  
• Tulku Karma Urgyen
  
• Tsangsar Tulku Urgyen
  
• Choktrul Urgyen Rinpoche
  
• Choktrul Urgyen Tulku Rinpoche
  

Dates

Born: 1920
Died: 1996

Affiliation

A contemporary master of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages

Other Biographical Information

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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.

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.