15 Facts About Thrangu Rinpoche

Thrangu Rinpoche is deemed to be a prominent tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, the ninth reincarnation in his particular line.

Thrangu Rinpoche was installed at Thrangu Monastery in Kham after his identification by the Sixteenth Karmapa and the previous Tai Situpa at age five.

Thrangu Rinpoche is one of the principal lamas there, although Traleg Rinpoche is the supreme abbot of the complex.

Thrangu Rinpoche fled to India following the Chinese invasion in 1959.

At the age of thirty-five Thrangu Rinpoche took the geshe examination in Bengal and was awarded the degree of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree conferred in the Gelug transmission.

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Thrangu Rinpoche was awarded the Khenchen degree of the Kagyu tradition.

Thrangu Rinpoche played a critical role in the recovery of important Buddhist texts that had been largely destroyed by the Chinese Communists.

Thrangu Rinpoche was named Abbot of Rumtek monastery, the home monastery in exile of the Karmapa, and of the Nalanda Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies at Rumtek.

Thrangu Rinpoche established the fundamental curriculum of the Karma Kagyu lineage taught at Rumtek.

In 1976, after 15 years at Rumtek, Thrangu Rinpoche founded the Thrangu Tashi Choling monastery in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal, and later founded a retreat centre and college at Namo Buddha; Tara Abbey, which offers a full dharma education for Tibetan nuns leading to a khenpo degree; a school in Boudhanath for the general education of Tibetan children and young monks in Western subjects and Buddhist studies; and a free medical clinic in an impoverished area of Nepal.

Thrangu Rinpoche recently completed a large monastery in Sarnath, India, overlooking the deer park where the Buddha gave his first teaching on the Four Noble Truths.

In 1976, Thrangu Rinpoche began teaching Buddhism throughout Asia and in the West.

Thrangu Rinpoche founded Thrangu House in Oxford, England, in 1981, then in the United States and Canada, he established centres in Crestone, Colorado, Maine, California, Vancouver and Edmonton.

Thrangu Rinpoche has another fourteen centres in nine other countries.

Thrangu Rinpoche is the Abbot of Gampo Abbey, a Karma Kagyu monastery in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, founded by his dharma brother Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, reflective of his close ties the Shambhala Buddhist community.