Greetings!
We're pleased to announce that Nyichang
Khentrul Rinpoche will give a teaching on the
history of the Longchen Nyingthig on Friday,
August 17, at 7:00 pm.
About Nyichang Rinpoche
Nyichang Rinpoche was born in Tibet in 1932
in the Kyidong Valley, the same area in which
Milarepa was born. He studied in the Nyingma
lineage under Shuksep Jetsunma Rinpoche, a
great female teacher, who recognized him as
the reincarnation of Drukpa Sangye Dorje, a
great poet and the main disciple of Padma
Karpo, the 16th century head of the Drukpa
Kagyu sect.
Rinpoche also studied at the Nyingma head
temple of Mindroling and attended Nyima
Changra Monastic College, an excellent small
university. He became a teacher
there at age 18. He left Tibet in 1959 and
became the religious headmaster at the school
for Tibetan refugees in Mussoorie. He also
taught at the Sanskrit University in
Varanasi. In 1974, at the request of His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, he went to teach at
the tantric university of Koyasan in
Japan.
Currently, Rinpoche has dharma
students in Japan, Austria, Estonia, Russia,
the Netherlands and Italy, and he is just
beginning to be become known in the United
States. His main work is establishing Pelri
Thegchok Ling Institute near Kalimpong, to
train young monks as scholars in the Rime
tradition, with a special emphasis on
Dzogchen.
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We hope that you can join Swamiji for Rinpoche's
teaching. Family and friends are welcome.
Suggested donation is $10.
Nityananda Institute
phone:
503-231-0383
