Chagdud Tulku

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ལྕགས་མདུད་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ

Wylie	lcags mdud sprul sku
English Phonetics	Chagdud Tulku
Sort Name	Chagdud Tulku

Alternate names

• Padma Gargyi Wangchuk

Dates

Birth:	1930
Death:	2002
Place of birth:	Tromtar region of Kham, eastern Tibet

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Rab Jyung

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Teachers

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Publications

• Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama. Junction City, CA: Padma Publishing, 1992.
• Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. Gates to Buddhist Practice: Essential Teachings of a Tibetan Master. Junction City, CA: Padma Publishing, 1993.
• Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. Life In Relation To Death. Junction City, CA: Padma Publishing, 2nd edition, 2000.
• Chagdud Tulku, Change of Heart: The Bodhisattva Peace Training of Chagdud Tulku. Junction City, CA: Padma Publishing, 2003.
• Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and Jane Tromge. Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise Preliminary Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom. Junction City, CA: Padma Publishing, 1995.

Links

Wiki Pages

• Chagdud Tulku on the DRL
• Chagdud Tulku on the LIB
• Chagdud Tulku on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche (Tib. ལྕགས་མདུད་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wyl. lcags mdud sprul sku) (1930-2002), Padma Gargyi Wangchuk, was a renowned teacher of the Nyingma school. He was known and respected in the West for his teachings, and also for his melodic chanting voice, his artistry as a sculptor and painter, his limitless compassion, and his sense of humour. He was the source of treasured Nyingma lineage transmissions for the thousands of people whom he taught in North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche was the fourteenth recognized Chagdud incarnation; and his root incarnation was Gyalwa Chokyang. Chagdud means 'iron knot', and is said to derive from one Sherab Gyaltsen, the first Chagdud incarnation, who folded an iron sword into a knot with his bare hands. This feat deeply impressed the emperor of Mongolia and inspired him to shower honours on Chagdud. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche demonstrated the same extraordinary power several times in his youth when he compressed stout swords into folds. (Source Accessed Feb 6, 2020)

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Names

Tibetan: ལྕགས་མདུད་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།
Wylie:

• lcags mdud sprul sku
  

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• Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
  

Dates

Born: 1930
Died: 2002

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Rigpa Wiki Bio

TBRC Person RID: P3JM56

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.

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

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.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.