Namkhai Norbu

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
MainNamePhon	Namkhai Norbu
MainNameTib	ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ
MainNameWylie	nam mkha'i nor bu
SortName	Norbu, Namkhai
bio	Namkhai Norbu (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་; Wylie: nam mkha’I nor bu, 8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at Naples Eastern University. He was a leading authority on Tibetan culture, particularly in the fields of history, literature, traditional religions (Tibetan Buddhism and Bon), and Traditional Tibetan medicine, having written numerous books and scholarly articles on these subjects. When he was two years old, Namkhai Norbu was recognized as the 'mindstream emanation', a tulku, of the Dzogchen teacher Adzom Drugpa (1842–1924). At five, he was also recognized as a mindstream emanation of an emanation of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594–1651). At the age of sixteen, he met master Rigdzin Changchub Dorje (1863–1963), who became his main Dzogchen teacher. In 1960, he went to Italy at the invitation of Giuseppe Tucci and served as Professor of Tibetan and Mongolian Language and Literature from 1964 to 1992 at Naples Eastern University. In 1983, he hosted the first International Convention on Tibetan Medicine, held in Venice, Italy. In 1976, Namkhai Norbu began to give Dzogchen instruction in the West, first in Italy, then in numerous other countries. He became a respected spiritual authority among many practitioners, and created centers for the study of Dzogchen worldwide. Namkhai Norbu taught Dzogchen for more than fifty years and was considered by the Tibetan government in exile as "the foremost living Dzogchen" teacher at the time of his death, in 2018. Norbu founded the Dzogchen Community, which today has centers around the world, including in the US, Mexico, Australia, Russia, and China. (Source Accessed Mar 17, 2022)
YearBirth	1938
YearDeath	2018
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Names

Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་
Wylie: Nam mkha'i nor bu
chos rgyal nam mkha'i nor bu

Other Transliterations in use:
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

Affiliation

Nyingma - Dzogchen

http://www.tsegyalgar.org/ - Dzogchen Community in North America

Other Biographical Information

TBRC Person RID: P6672

Wikipedia Entry for Namkai Norbu

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.