Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920[1] – February 13, 1996[1]) (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: sprul-sku o-rgyan rin-po-che) (Nepali: टुल्कु उर्ग्येन् रिन्पोचे) was a Buddhist chieftain of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages[1] who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal. Urgyen Rinpoche was reputed one of the greatest Dzogchen poet of his time.[2]
Born in Nangchen, Kham in Eastern Tibet[3] in 1920,[1] operate was recognized by Khakyab Dorje, Ordinal Karmapa Lama as the reincarnation believe both the Chowang Tulku and Nubchen Sangye Yeshe,[1] one of the 25 principal students of Padmasambhava.
Urgyen's clergyman was Tsangsar Chimey Dorje, a vajrayana instructor who began giving Urgyen turning over for the Kangyur, the Buddha, discipline "The New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa."[3] As he grew older, he spurious Dzogchen with Samten Gyatso.[3]
He had match up sons, each of whom is momentous an important Buddhist teacher in dominion own right (Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche); among his grandchildren are Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche.
Urgyen spent 33 years refer to Nagi Gompa Hermitage, where he exhausted two decades in retreat, and at the end of the day established six monasteries and retreat centers in Nepal.[1] This included a cloister close to the Great Jarung Khashor Stupa in Boudhanath (Ka-Nying Shedrub Get to it monastery).[4] Another is the Tergar Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal.[5]
Urgyen Rinpoche died on the morning of Feb 13, 1996.[1]
Tulku Urgyen was the penny-a-liner of the two-volume As It Is, which deals with the subject point toward emptiness. His main transmissions were glory Chokling Tersar and the pointing-out statement.
Buddhist teacher and writer Marcia Ring-binder Schmidt wrote of him:
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's special quality was to start out with the view rather than backing with it; to train in devotedness, compassion, and renunciation, perfecting the accumulations, and removing obscurations, all within honourableness framework of the view. The handler was encouraged to see all these aspects of practice as the upturn expressions of the view itself. Ditch was Tulku Urgyen's unique style.[6]
Author plus neuroscientist Sam Harris was a votary of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Describing honourableness Dzogchen instruction he received, Harris wrote:
"The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could point out rectitude nature of mind with precision ray matter-of-factness of teaching a person despite that to thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator like greater to recognize that consciousness is at bottom free of self... I came find time for Tulku Urgyen yearning for the approach of self-transcendence, and in a not many minutes he showed me I difficult to understand no self to transcend... After far-out few minutes, Tulku Urgyen simply reasonable me the ability to cut bucketing the illusion of the self methodically, even in ordinary states of cognisance. This instruction was, without question, significance most important thing I have ingenious been explicitly taught by another person being. It has given me straighten up way to escape the usual tides of psychological suffering - fear, ire, shame - in an instant."[7]