Garchen Rinpoche

PersonType	Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
FirstName / namefirst	Garchen
MainNamePhon	Garchen Rinpoche
MainNameTib	མགར་ཆེན་དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་མཚན
MainNameWylie	mgar chen dkon mchog rgyal mtshan
nametitlesuf	Rinpoche
SortName	Garchen Rinpoche
bio	Garchen Rinpoche, Konchog Gyaltsen (mgar chen dkon mchog rgyal mtshan, b. 1949), is a master ofthe Drigung Kagyu tradition. By the time he finally left Tibet in the 1990s, he had spent twenty-three years imprisoned by the Chinese. Of his time in prison, twenty years were spent in the company of his teacher, Khenpo Munsel (mkhan po mun sel, 1916-1994). Since coming out of Tibet, he has been tirelessly teaching throughout the world. (Source: Enlightened Vagabond)
YearBirth	1949
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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.