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Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche has studied with many of the greatest lamas of his generation. His root lama was | Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche has studied with many of the greatest lamas of his generation. His root lama was Dudjom Rinpoche, and his retreat master was Changchak Rinpoche. | ||
He holds the Nyingma lineages of: | He holds the Nyingma lineages of: | ||
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Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche is a Nyingma Vajrayana master, a scholar and a senior student of Dudjom Rinpoche.
His Birth and Family
Originally from Pemakö, he was born into a family of ngakpas with an unbroken lineage of inherited spiritual gifts and accomplishments descended from the tertön Pema Lingpa.
His Training
Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche has studied with many of the greatest lamas of his generation. His root lama was Dudjom Rinpoche, and his retreat master was Changchak Rinpoche.
He holds the Nyingma lineages of:
He received initiations from:
- Chatral Sangye Dorje
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
- Dodrupchen Rinpoche
- Dudjom Rinpoche
- Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
- Chimé Rigdzin Rinpoche
- Minling Trichen Rinpoche
- Penor Rinpoche
- Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche.
His Activity
Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche is the spiritual director of Ogyan Chokhor Ling (the European sangha of his personal students) and the director of Lhundrup Topgye Ling Ngakpa Dratsang School (in Arunachal Pradesh, India). He is an inspiring teacher with extraordinary gifts of communication and a rare subtlety of expression in English which allows fine detail of meaning to be nailed with great simplicity. He has a particular gift for languages, as he is fluent in Tibetan, Sanskrit, Tshang-lha, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali and English. He is also an accomplished poet.
He is also presently working on a Tshangs-lha-Tibetan dictionary, with the aim of recording and preserving the rich vocabulary of the Tshangs-lha language, which is now in danger of extinction.
Rinpoche is a ngakpa and is keen to see this tantric ordination flourish in the West as it has for over a thousand years in the Himalayas and Tibet. He is the inspiration behind Khye’u-chung Lotsapa Translations, which produces English (and other European language) translations and editions of Tibetan texts belonging to the Dudjom Tersar tradition.
He resides in Varanasi and frequently visits his centre in Arunachal Pradesh. As well as being a lama, Rinpoche is a highly respected academic with a teaching career of three decades in higher education.