Zenkar, Alak
Wylie | a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma |
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English Phonetics | Alak Zenkar Rinpoche |
Sort Name | Zenkar, Alak |
Title Suffix | Rinpcohe |
- gzan dkar mchog sprul thub bstan nyi ma
- a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma
- gzan dkar rin po che
- gzan dkar thub bstan nyi ma
- Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
- Zenkar Rinpoche
- Zenkar Rinpoché
- Alak Zenkar Rinpoché
- Alek Zenkar Rinpoche
- Alak Zenkar Rinpoche Tupten Nyima
- Tudeng Nima
- Tudeng Nima Rinpoche
Birth: | 1943 |
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Primary Language: | Tibetan |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Director–Paltseg Tibetan Rare Texts Research Center (dpal brtsegs bod yig dpe rnying zhib 'jug khang); Creator and lead editor for the series Ancestor's Legacies (mes po'i shul bzhag)
Biographical Information
Tudeng Nyima is the 2nd Alak Zenkar Rinpoche. The 1st Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, Pema Ngödrup Rolpai Dorjé, lived from 1881 to 1943. For a short biography, see Tulku Thondup, Masters of Meditation and Miracles (Shambhala Publications, 1996), 275–77.
Tudeng Nima Rinpoche is the Director of the Paltseg Tibetan Rare Texts Research Center, TBRC board member, visiting scholar at the University of Virginia, and board member of the China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture. In 2000-2003, he was a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University in the East Asian Institute. From 2004 to the present he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia. Tuten Nima Rinpoche has written many papers for which he has received numerous awards. He has rescued and reproduced thousands of important and rare Tibetan texts. He has made outstanding contributions to Tibetan culture and education, and is renowned as one of the world’s leading Tibetan Buddhist scholars. (BDRC Source Accessed September 17, 2020)
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Names[edit]
Tibetan:
Wylie:
- gzan dkar mchog sprul thub bstan nyi ma
- a lags gzan dkar rin po che thub bstan nyi ma
- gzan dkar rin po che
- gzan dkar thub bstan nyi ma
Other Transliterations in use:
- Zenkar Rinpoche
- Zenkar Rinpoché
- Alak Zenkar Rinpoché
- Alek Zenkar Rinpoche
- Alak Zenkar Rinpoche Tupten Nyima
- Tudeng Nima
- Tudeng Nima Rinpoche
Note: "gzan dkar" means "white shawl"