Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Title	Tulku Rinpoche
Personal
Born	1920 Nangchen, Kham, Tibet
Died	February 13, 1996(1996-02-13) (aged 75–76)
Religion	Tibetan Buddhism
Nationality	Nepalese
School	Kagyu Nyingma
Senior posting
Successor	His four sons
Reincarnation	Chowang Tulku

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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920^[1] – February 13, 1996^[1]) (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: sprul-sku o-rgyan rin-po-che) (Nepali: टुल्कु उर्ग्येन् रिन्पोचे) was a Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages^[1] who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal. Urgyen Rinpoche was considered one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of his time.^[2]