Neten Chokling Rinpoche
Neten Chokling Rinpoche (Wyl. gnas brtan mchog gling rin po che), aka Rigdzin Gyurme Dorje (b. 10 August 1973) — the Fourth Neten Chokling was recognized by both H.H. Karmapa and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the reincarnation of Neten Chokling Pema Gyurme. He was born on the tenth day of the eighth month to a poor family in Wandipodzong, central Bhutan. Karmapa named him Gyurme Dorje.
At the age of seven, he was taken to his monastery—the Pema Ewam Chögar Gyurme Ling Monastery—in Bir, and enthroned by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in Clement Town at the monastery Ngedön Gatsal Ling. Before arriving in his home monastery he was enthroned in Rumtek by H.H. Karmapa. He has received the transmissions of the Kangyur, Nyingma Gyübum, Nyingma Kama, Rinchen Terdzö, and Chokling Tersar as well as many other teachings from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He is also the father of Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche.
He acted in Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's films The Cup (1999) and Travellers and Magicians (2003). In 2006, he directed his own first film, The Life of Milarepa - Part I (See Exteranal Links below).
Neten Chokling Rinpoche has been regularly coming to Lerab Ling since 1996 with monks from his monastery to hold drupchö and drupchen practices, for which he sometimes gives empowerments.
Empowerments & Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha
- Lerab Ling, summer 1997: Vajrakilaya empowerment
- Lerab Ling, 25 October 2013: Chimé Phakmé Nyingtik Root empowerment
- Lerab Ling, 5 November 2013: essential Pema Khandro (Kurukulla) empowerment
- Lerab Ling, 17 September 2014: Essential Chimé Phakmé Nyingtik empowerment
- Lerab Ling, 28 September 2014: Kurukulla empowerment
- Lerab Ling, 15 July 2015: Chimé Phakmé Nyingtik empowerment
- Lerab Ling, 28 July 2015: Kurukulla empowerment
Internal Links
- Chokling Incarnation Line
- Pema Ewam Chögar Gyurme Ling Monastery
- Prayer for the Long Life of Neten Chokling Rinpoche