Dhardo Rimpoche (1917-1990) was said by Tibetan Buddhists to be an incarnation, or tulku, of the chief abbot of Losel-ling College at Drepung Monastery, located in central Tibet. He was the second tulku in the Gelug lineage and eleventh in the Nyingma lineage. 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Tibetan Buddhism, (formerly also called Lamaism after their religious gurus known as lamas), is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and the Himalayan region. ... In Tibetan Buddhism, a tulku is the reincarnation of a lama or other spiritually significant figure. ... Drepung monastery Drepung Monastery is one of the great three Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet. ... Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, Pinyin: or Chinese: 藏区, Pinyin: [the two names are used with different connotations; see Name section below]) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... The Geluk (dge lugs) School was founded by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), Tibets best known religious reformer and arguably its greatest philosopher. ... The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Gelug, Kagyu and Sakya). ...

Dhardo Rimpoche was educated in the traditional Tibetan monastic style, taking his Lharampa Degree (Doctor of Philosophy) at Drepung Monastery, and doing further study at Gyud-med Tantric College. In 1951 he was appointed abbot of the Tibetan monastery at Bodh Gaya, and then in 1954 moved to Kalimpong near the India-Tibet border. Kalimpong was to become an important staging post for Tibetans fleeing the Chinese invasion. Dhardo Rimpoche founded an orphanage and school for Tibetan refugees, which he named the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Institute (ITBCI), and was abbot of Yiga Choeling Monastery, Ghoom. Tibetan can refer to: A place or item from Tibet. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Bodh Gaya or Bodhgaya is the place of Buddhas attainment of Enlightenment. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kalimpong is a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal. ... Kalimpong is a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal. ...

During the 1950s and 1960s Dhardo Rimpoche was friend and teacher to Sangharakshita, an English Buddhist who spent 14 years based in Kalimpong before returning to England to found the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO). Sangharakshita considered Dhardo Rimpoche to be a living bodhisattva, and he is still revered in the FWBO. In the 1980s the FWBO's charity Aid For India (now known as the Karuna Trust) undertook to provide funding for the ITBCI. // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Sangharakshita (1925-) is the founder of the Western Buddhist Order, and the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO). ... Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) is a Buddhist movement founded by Sangharakshita in 1967 in the UK. It was followed by the foundation of the WBO Western Buddhist Order in 1968. ... Prince Siddhartha Gautama as a bodhisattva, before becoming a Buddha. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...

Portions of Dhardo Rimpoche's relics, the ashes from his cremation, have been installed in several stupas in the West: at Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre (near Thames, New Zealand), at Padmaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre (near Norwich, England), at Guhyaloka Retreat Centre [1], (near Alicante, Spain), and at Tiratanaloka [2] Retreat Centre in Wales. A stupa in Tibet A stupa (from the Sanskrit) is a type of Buddhist structure found across the Indian subcontinent, Asia and increasingly in the Western World. ... Thames is a town at the southwestern end of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealands North Island. ... Padmaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre (UK), Lesingham House, Surlingham, Norfolk, is a Buddhist retreat centre for men. ... Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch, Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st... Alicante (Castillian Spanish) or Alacant (Valencian Catalan) is the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of the Alacantí, in the southern part of the Land of Valencia, Spain, a historic Mediterranean port. ... For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom and England, see British Isles (terminology). ...

Dhardo Rimpoche's motto was: "Cherish the doctrine; live united; radiate love". He was concerned especially to teach the children at his school that "actions have consequences".

The Third Dhardo Tulku, Tenzin Legshad Wangdi, was born in 1991. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Institute
• A glimpse of light - an account of meeting Dhardo Rimpoche by a Western Buddhist
• Photos of stupas which contain Dhardo Rimpoche's relics
• More photos of the Sudarsanaloka stupa
• Photo of Dhardo Stupa at Padmaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre
• karuna, charity work in india

Further reading

• Suvajra, The Wheel and the Diamond : The Life of Dhardo Tulku (Windhorse Publications, 1991) ISBN 0-904766-48-9
• Sara Hagel (ed), Dhardo Rimpoche : A Celebration (Windhorse Publications, 2000) ISBN 1-899579-26-5