Palpung Sherabling Teachers

His Holiness Guru Vajradhara 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

Tai Situpa is one of the oldest lineages of tulkus (reincarnated lamas) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Kenting Tai Situpa is considered an emanation of Bodhisattva Maitreya and Guru Padmasambhava, who has been incarnated numerous times as Indian and Tibetan yogis since the time of the historical Buddha.
The current, 12th Tai Situpa, Pema Tönyö Nyinje, was born in a farming family in 1954 in Derge, Tibet. At the age of twenty-two, the 12th Tai Situpa founded his own new monastic seat, Palpung Sherabling Monastery, Himachal Pradesh, in Northeast India providing traditional Buddhist teachings, astronomy, traditional Tibetan medicine curriculum, higher Tibetan Buddhist university teachings (Shedra), traditional Tibetan herbs medicine garden, medical clinic, old age home and has accommodations for students.
Palpung Sherabling Monastery currently has approximately 1000 monks. Palpung Yeshe Rabgyeling Nun Monastery has about 200 nuns. The Monastery also offers the traditional Kagyu three-year retreat for both monks and nuns on the compound.
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His Eminence Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Mingyur Rinpoche was born in Nepal in 1975. His father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, was himself a well-respected Buddhist teacher. From the age of nine, his father taught him meditation, passing on to him the most essential instructions of the Dzogchen and Mahamudra traditions.
At the age of eleven, Mingyur Rinpoche began studies at Sherabling Monastery in northern India, the seat of Tai Situ Rinpoche. He was formally enthroned as the 7th incarnation of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche by Tai Situ Rinpoche when he was twelve years old.
Two years later, Mingyur Rinpoche began a traditional three-year retreat at Sherabling. At the age of nineteen, he enrolled at Dzongsar Institute, where he studied the primary topics of the Buddhist academic tradition, including Middle Way philosophy and Buddhist logic. At age twenty, Mingyur Rinpoche became the functioning abbot of Sherabling Monastery. At twenty-three, he received full monastic ordination.
He has set up an international Tergar organisation, which offers comprehensive study programmes for the current time. He travels extensively and has students worldwide.
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His Eminence Chungpo Gyalton Rinpoche

The previous Gyalton Rinpoche, Orgyen Jigma Chokyi Senge Gyalton Rinpoche (1908-1970), was the spiritual head of Chungpo monastery in Eastern Tibet. He was one of the principal students of the 11th Tai Situpa, and of Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro. While in Tsurphu Monastery, the seat of the Karmapa, the 16th Karmapa bestowed on him the title of Khenchen, meaning Great Learned One, as did Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Choling Rinpoche in recognition of his high attainments and learning. The present, seventh reincarnation, Karma Palden Lungtok Trinley Rangye, was born in Sikkim and identified as Gyalton Tulku in 1983 by the Tai Situpa and shortly after enthroned in the palace temple in Gangtok, Sikkim. Rinpoche speaks fluent English, Hindi and Nepali and is perfectly at home with Western cultural norms.
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