Khenchen thrangu rinpoche biography of christopher

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (Tib. ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl.khra 'gu rin po che) (1933-2023^[1]) was born in Kham, Tibet.

At the age of four he was formally recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa and Eleventh Tai Situpa as the ninth incarnation of the great Thrangu tulku, the abbot of Thrangu Monastery, whose root incarnation was Shüpu Palgyi Sengé, one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche.

He began his formal studies at the age of seven and received full ordination at the age of twenty-three from the Sixteenth Karmapa.

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Following this, Thrangu Rinpoche engaged in a period of intense practice and retreat and received further teachings from one of his root teachers, Khenpo Gangshar.

He was forced to flee to India in 1959, and consequently went to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, where the Karmapa has his seat in exile.

He was the main teacher of the four principal Karma Kagyü tulkus of that time—the four regents of the Karmapa (Sh