Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, also called Tulku Ugyen Topgyal, is a Tibetan Buddhist

lama Lama (; "chief") is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism. The name is similar to the Sanskrit term ''guru'', meaning "heavy one", endowed with qualities the student will eventually embody. The Tibetan word "lama" means "hi ...

who was born in

Kham Kham (; ) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas (), and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham ...

in Eastern Tibet in 1951, living in exile in India.

Life

Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, born in 1951 in Riwoche in

, Eastern Tibet is the eldest son of the 3rd

Neten Chokling Neten Chokling Rinpoche (), is also referred as to the 4th Neten Chokling Rinpoche. Life Neten Chokling was born on August 10 1973, into a farming family in Wangdue Phodrang in Bhutan. He was recognized by the 16th Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoc ...

Rinpoche. He has 3 younger brothers: Jamyang Gyaltsen, Khyentse Yeshe Rinpoche, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and one sister. By 1959, he left Tibet with his parents and oldest brother and went to Sikkim, where they lived for few years. In 1967, his father, the 3rd Neten Chokling Rinpoche began the construction of a Tibetan settlement in

Bir, Himachal Pradesh Bir is a rural village located in the west of Joginder Nagar Valley in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It's the paragliding capital of India and the location of the Bir Tibetan Colony, founded in the early 1960s as a settlement ...

, North East India, and died in India in 1973 right after a car accident. Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche then took over the care of the monastery in Bir. His father's reincarnation,

was born August 10, 1973 in a modest family in Wandipodzong, in Bhutan, and was recognized by the

16th Karmapa The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (; August 14, 1924 – November 5, 1981) was the spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Followers believed him to be part of the oldest line of Tulku, reincarnate lamas in ...

as well as by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. At the age of 7, he was taken to the monastery of his predecessor in Bir. Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche was one of the teachers of the young reincarnation of his father, and in 2004 he passed over the full responsibility of the monastery to Neten Chokling. Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche received transmissions of Buddhist teachings from Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, with whom he went to the West. He first taught in Dordogne, France, at Chanteloube, which is the centre of the six sons and daughters of

Kangyur Rinpoche The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur or Kanjur ('Translation of the Word') and the Tengyur or Tanjur (Tengyur) ('Translation of Treat ...

. Between 2004 and 2006 Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche visited Tibet twice to rebuild Neten Gön, the monastery of his father Neten Chokling. Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche was a Member of the Tibetan Parliament for the region of

from 1994 to 1996 and was reelected in 2001 and 2006 to the 13th and the 14th Parliament in exile.of the 14th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (2006 - 2011)
/ref> He is also an actor, and played the role of ''Geko'' (master of discipline of the monastery) in Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's film '' The Cup'' (1999). He also played the role of yogi / teacher to Milarepa in '' Life of Milarepa - Part I'', a film directed by

, and was the artistic director for this movie.

References

External links

Orgyen Tobgyal Series on Lotsawa House
* The Life of

Chokgyur Lingpa Chokgyur Lingpa or Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829-1870) was a tertön or "treasure revealer" and contemporary of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul. Regarded as one of the major tertöns in Tibetan history, his termas are widely practiced ...

, by Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Rangjung Yeshe Publications
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