Published by World Tibet Network News - Friday, February 21, 1997Forwarded by Sharpa Tulku
His Eminence Trijang Rinpoche, Tenzin Losang Yeshe Gyatso is presently visiting the United States at the requests of many disciples of the late Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, the Junior Tutor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. During his visit, Rinpoche has already given Long Life Empowerments of Amitayus, the deity of immaculate life, and oral transmissions of various prayers, as well as mantras.
Although only fifteen years old, Rinpoche has been giving quintessential advice such as the need for cultivating the mind with much emphasis on compassion. Trijang Chogtrul Rinpoche came to the U.S. after extensive visits in Europe, where he was received by many of the disciples of his predecessor.
After the passing away of the late Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche in 1981 in Dharamsala, India, his supreme incarnation was discovered in a Tibetan family in Northern India and officially recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on April 23rd, 1985. Trijang Chogtrul Rinpoche is the eighteenth in his lineage, the first being Dunpa Zangkyong, the chariot driver of Prince Siddhartha. Others, both Indian and Tibetan, in diverse traditions, include the great Indian Pandit Chandrakirti, Shantirakshita, Atisha, Geshe Langri Thangpa (Kadam), Ganden throne-holder Monlam Palpa (Gelug), Karmapa Mikyoe Dorje (Kagyu), Zurchen Choeying Rangdol (Nyingma), and Lotzawa Jampal Dorje (Sakya).
At the conclusion of his visit with his parents and siblings, who recently immigrated to the United States, Rinpoche will be returning to Ganden Monastery in South India to continue his studies and training under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the tutelage of his tutor, the Venerable Lati Rinpoche. Rinpoche is accompanied by Chagdzoe Losang Tharchin and Solpon Jamyang Tashi, who has been an attendant of the late Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche in Tibet since childhood. It is hoped that Rinpoche will return here in the future to give more teachings after the completion of his monastic studies and training in India.
Sharpa Tulku
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