Tsoknyi rinpoche biography sample

  • The first Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
  • For over 30 years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has been teaching students worldwide about the innermost nature of mind in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
  • The first Tsoknyi Öser was born in a place called Dewa Tang, Kyodrak in the twelfth sexagenary cycle of the Fire Snake Year, 1737, to a father named Kharpa.

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    A Brief Biography: The Successive Incarnations of Tsoknyi Öser

    T H E S E C O N D I N C A R N A T I O N

    The second Tsoknyi was born to a father named Wön Tenzin Norbu and a mother named Sönam Drönma who was the chieftainess of Tsang Sar. He was recognised by the Fifth Dung Kar Śrī Bhadra of Kyodrak, who named him Karma Tsewang Künkhyab. He achieved the primordial wisdom of the aural lineage as he was primarily focused on meditation practice.

    Due to his yogic observances, he established everything he saw or heard onto the path of liberation. Certain aspects such as the dates of his birth and death are not available. In the end, he died at the age of sixty 3 and attained the rūpakāya, the form body.

    T H E T H I R D I N C A R N A T I O N

    The third incarnation was born with a number of wondrous signs in the lower part of the Senggé district in Kham in the Earth Male Mouse year, 1828. His father was named Orgyen Gönpo and his mother Drongza Lhamo Dröl.

    Shugu Tendar, a monk from Kyod

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    This interview with Tsoknyi Rinpoche took place on November 10, 2011, in Paro, Bhutan on the last evening of the pilgrimage.

    A message from Tsoknyi Rinpoche to students who could not attend this pilgrimage ~

    “Many times during the pilgrimage, I have thought and prayed for all my students, whether on this particular journey or not. In this sense all of you have been with me, and we have journeyed to these sacred places together.”

    Pilgrims at Paro, Bhutan

    Q: Throughout recorded human history people from all over the earth have gone on pilgrimage to holy places. How is this ancient human activity understood from a Buddhist point of view?

    Buddha at Maha Bodhi Temple      Guru Rinpoche at Paro, Bhutan

    A: Pilgrimage can be a profound inner and outer journey that opens us to increasingly deeper awareness and experience. Classically, pilgrimage is divided in Tibetan Buddhism as having three interwoven aspects: innermost, inner and outer. Th

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    RWH018: HOW TO BE HAPPY

    [00:03:06] William Green:I’m no psychologist or psychiatrist, but for me personally, this practice of meeting difficult emotions with awareness, and warmth, and kindness has just been incredibly helpful. So, I really wanted to share it with you too. In this conversation, we’ll talk in detail about how to handshake our beautiful monsters.

    [00:03:26] William Green: We’ll also discuss some other very practical techniques that can help you become happier, calmer, and more focused. For example, we’ll talk about a belly breathing technique that can restore your sense of wellbeing when you’re feeling a lot of restless, speedy, unsettled energy in your mind and body.

    [00:03:45] William Green: Rinpoche will also share his instructions for two different types of simple meditation. You’ll also hear his wonderfully irreverent mantra which fryst vatten, “Who cares? So what? Whatever happens, whatever doesn’t happen.” inom try to remind myself of this mantra once in a while wh