Difference between revisions of "Bokar Rinpoche"
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|MainNamePhon=Bokar Rinpoche | |MainNamePhon=Bokar Rinpoche | ||
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|MainNameTib=འབོ་དཀར་ངེས་དོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་ | |MainNameTib=འབོ་དཀར་ངེས་དོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་ | ||
|MainNameWylie='bo dkar nges don chos kyi blo gros | |MainNameWylie='bo dkar nges don chos kyi blo gros | ||
|PersonType=Authors of Tibetan Works; Tibetan Buddhist Teachers; Tulkus | |PersonType=Authors of Tibetan Works; Tibetan Buddhist Teachers; Tulkus | ||
+ | |bio=Bokar Tulku Rinpoche (1940 – 17 August 2004) was heart-son of the Second Kalu Rinpoche and a holder of the Karma Kagyü and Shangpa Kagyü lineages. | ||
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+ | Bokar Rinpoche was born in western Tíbet not far from Mount Kailash, in 1940 (Iron Dragon year) to a family of nomadic herders. When Rinpoche was four years old, His Holiness the 16th Karmapa recognized him as the reincarnation of the previous Bokar Tulku, Karma Sherab Ösel. | ||
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+ | Bokar Rinpoche was trained at the monastery founded by the previous Bokar incarnation. He continued his studies at Tsurphu Monastery in central Tibet, main seat of the Karmapas. While still a teenager, he assumed full responsibilities for the Bokar monastic community. Then, due to the Communist oppression in Tibet, Bokar Rinpoche fled into exile at the age of 20. In India, he became a close disciple of Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche. | ||
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+ | Under Kalu Rinpoche's guidance in Sonada, Bokar Rinpoche twice completed the traditional three-year retreat. During the first one, he followed the practices of the Shangpa Kagyu; the second was based on the practices of the Karma Kagyu. | ||
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+ | In Mirik, India, Bokar Rinpoche founded a retreat center that is an important centre for Kalachakra practice, now called Bokar Ngedhon Choekhor Ling. | ||
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+ | Brief bio available at [http://www.bokarmonastery.org/mod/data/index.php?REQUEST_ID=cGFnZT1iaW9ncmFwaHktQm9rYXI= bokarmonastery.org] | ||
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+ | Also see [http://www.bokarmonastery.org/mod/data/index.php?REQUEST_ID=cGFnZT1wdWJsaWNhdGlvbnM= Bokar Publications] | ||
|images=File:Bokar.jpg | |images=File:Bokar.jpg | ||
+ | |yearbirth=1940 | ||
+ | |yeardeath=2004/08/17 | ||
+ | |associatedwebsite=http://www.bokarmonastery.org/ | ||
|BdrcLink=https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6141 | |BdrcLink=https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6141 | ||
|BdrcPnum=6141 | |BdrcPnum=6141 | ||
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|AltNamesWylie=karma nges don chos kyi blo gros; 'bo dkar sprul sku; | |AltNamesWylie=karma nges don chos kyi blo gros; 'bo dkar sprul sku; | ||
|AltNamesTib=ཀརྨ་ངེས་དོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་; འབོ་དཀར་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་; | |AltNamesTib=ཀརྨ་ངེས་དོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་; འབོ་དཀར་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་; | ||
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|studentof=Kalu Rinpoche | |studentof=Kalu Rinpoche | ||
|teacherof=Karmapa, 17th; Donyo, Khenpo | |teacherof=Karmapa, 17th; Donyo, Khenpo |
Latest revision as of 18:11, 9 March 2022
Wylie | 'bo dkar nges don chos kyi blo gros |
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English Phonetics | Bokar Rinpoche |
Sort Name | Bokar Rinpoche |
- ཀརྨ་ངེས་དོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་
- འབོ་དཀར་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་
- karma nges don chos kyi blo gros
- 'bo dkar sprul sku
Birth: | 1940 |
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Death: | 2004/08/17 |
Tibetan calendar dates
Website: | http://www.bokarmonastery.org/ |
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- Teachers
- Kalu Rinpoche
- Students
- Karmapa, 17th · Donyo, Khenpo
Biographical Information
Bokar Tulku Rinpoche (1940 – 17 August 2004) was heart-son of the Second Kalu Rinpoche and a holder of the Karma Kagyü and Shangpa Kagyü lineages.
Bokar Rinpoche was born in western Tíbet not far from Mount Kailash, in 1940 (Iron Dragon year) to a family of nomadic herders. When Rinpoche was four years old, His Holiness the 16th Karmapa recognized him as the reincarnation of the previous Bokar Tulku, Karma Sherab Ösel.
Bokar Rinpoche was trained at the monastery founded by the previous Bokar incarnation. He continued his studies at Tsurphu Monastery in central Tibet, main seat of the Karmapas. While still a teenager, he assumed full responsibilities for the Bokar monastic community. Then, due to the Communist oppression in Tibet, Bokar Rinpoche fled into exile at the age of 20. In India, he became a close disciple of Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche.
Under Kalu Rinpoche's guidance in Sonada, Bokar Rinpoche twice completed the traditional three-year retreat. During the first one, he followed the practices of the Shangpa Kagyu; the second was based on the practices of the Karma Kagyu.
In Mirik, India, Bokar Rinpoche founded a retreat center that is an important centre for Kalachakra practice, now called Bokar Ngedhon Choekhor Ling.
Brief bio available at bokarmonastery.org
Also see Bokar Publications
- BDRC Link (P6141)
- https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6141
- Wiki Pages