Tarthang Tulku
Tarthang Tulku (b. 1934/5) is a Nyingma teacher based in America. He was born in Archung in the Golok region of Amdo, and educated at Tarthang, a branch monastery of Palyul. He left Tibet and went to Sikkim in 1958. Shortly afterwards he taught Buddhist philosophy at the Sanskrit University in Varanasi. He went to America in 1968, and established the Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center in California. He currently oversees various projects including Dharma Publishing, Yeshe-De, Tibetan Aid Project, and the construction of the Odiyan Copper Mountain Mandala.