Thrangu Rinpoche

Names

Tibetan: ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་
Wylie:
Khra 'gu rin po che
Karma blo gros chos dpal bzang po
Khra 'gu sprul sku, 13th
Karma-blo-gros-chos-dpal-bzaṅ-po, Khra-'gu sPrul-sku XIII

Other Transliterations in use:
Very Venerable Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Tulku, Karma Lodrö Lungrik Maway Senge
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Thrangu Tulku, 13th

Dates

b. 1933

Other Biographical Information

-- Mar-pa Bka'-brgyud
-- Dwags-po Bka'-brgyud
-- Kam-tshang transmissions
TBRC Person RID: P2486
Thrangu Rinpoche was born in 1933 in Kham, Tibet. He is a prominent tulku (reincarnate lama) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, the ninth reincarnation in his particular line. His full name and title is the Very Venerable Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Tulku, Karma Lodrö Lungrik Maway Senge. "Khenchen" denotes great scholarly accomplishment, and the term "Rinpoche" is an honorific title commonly afforded to Tibetan lamas.

An fully enlightened Buddha is said to have the power to manifest in many forms in order to help the sentient beings. The emanation body of a buddha, as the third of the three bodies of a buddha, refers to the many forms in which a buddha can manifest and which are accessible to ordinary sentient beings. Buddhist scholars present four types of emanation bodies: emanation as supreme being, emanation as rebirth, emanation as artisan and emanation in diverse forms.

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.