Zenkar, Alak
| Title Suffix | Rinpcohe |
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- Alak Zenkar Rinpoche,
| Birth: | 1943 |
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Tibetan calendar dates
| Primary Language: | Tibetan |
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Biographical Information
Tudeng Nyima is the 2nd Alak Zenkar Rinpoche. The 1st Alak Zenkar Rinpoché, Pema Ngödrup Rolpai Dorjé, lived from 1881 to 1943. For a short biography, see Tulku Thondup, Masters of Meditation and Miracles, pp. 275-277.
Director of the dpal brtsegs bod yig dpe rnying zhib 'jug khang - Paltseg Tibetan Rare Texts Research Center
Creator and lead editor for the series mes po'i shul bzhag - Ancestor's Legacies
Rigpa Wiki Bio (Source Accessed February 15, 2012)
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. (Source Accessed February 20, 2012)
- Wiki Pages
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"