Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche
Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche is a Nyingma Vajrayana master, a scholar and a senior student of Dudjom Rinpoche.
Birth and Family
Originally from Pemakö, he was born into a family of ngakpa descending from the tertön Pema Lingpa.
Training
Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche's main teacher is 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.
Activity
Lopön Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche is the spiritual director of Ogyan Chokhor Ling (the European sangha of his students) and the director of Lhundrup Topgye Ling Ngakpa Dratsang School (in Arunachal Pradesh, India).
He has a particular gift for languages, as he is fluent in Tibetan, Sanskrit, Tshang-lha, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali and can easily communicated in English with great simplicity.
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 respected academic with a teaching career of three decades in higher education.