Akong Rinpoche

Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Akong Rinpoche at his 65th Birthday celebration in 2005
Personal
Born
Shetrup Akong Tarap

(1939-12-25)25 December 1939
Dharak Village, Riwoche, Kham, Tibet
Died8 October 2013(2013-10-08) (aged 73)
Chengdu, China
ReligionTibetan Buddhism
NationalityBritish
SchoolKagyu
LineageKarma Kagyu[1]
OccupationLama & physician
Senior posting
Teacher
ReincarnationAkong Lama[2]
Website[1]
Akong Rinpoche in the Temple at Samye Ling

Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, 25 December 1939[3][4][5] – 8 October 2013) was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and co-founder of the Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, Tara Rokpa Therapy & ROKPA International Charity.[2]

  1. ^ "3名藏人在成都被刺死 遇害者包括英籍阿贡活佛,证券之星" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
  2. ^ a b "Statement from the Rumtek Office concerning Akong Rinpoche". Rumtek Monastery. Archived from the original on 18 February 2015.
  3. ^ Blomfield, Vishvapani (2013-10-20). "Chöje Akong Rinpoche obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  4. ^ Mountford, Nigel. "Chöje Akong Rinpoche, (1939 - 2013) - ForeverMissed.com Online Memorials". www.forevermissed.com. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  5. ^ Martin (2023-11-02). "Akong Rinpoche Bio, Early Life, Career, Net Worth and Salary". Famous People Bio, Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Salary, Facts. Retrieved 2023-11-15.