The Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is president of Nalandabodhi, a leading Tibetan Buddhist scholar, and a meditation master. He is also one of the highest tülkus in the NyingmaandKarma Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, and the founder of Nitartha Institute, which provides assistance to scholars and Asian cultural institutions. Nalandabodhi is a Tibetan Buddhist organization founded in the United States by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 1997. ... 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. ... The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Gelug, Kagyu and Sakya). ... Karma Kagyu is the largest lineage of the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. ...
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The DzogchenPonlopRinpoche is acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars and meditation masters of his generation in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Rinpoche has dedicated himself to the preservation of traditional buddhist traditions in the East, and to supporting a genuine transmission of Buddhism to the West.
The DzogchenPonlopRinpoche was born in 1965 at Rumtek Monastery (Dharma Chakra Center) in Sikkim, India.