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    Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, 25 December 1939 – 8 October 2013) was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan...
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    learning that his monastery had been destroyed. Trungpa started with Akong Rinpoche and a small party of monastics, but as they traveled people asked to...
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    at 12 years old he was selected to go with his elder brother Choje Akong Rinpoche—who had been recognised as a tulku by the 16th Karmapa—to the Dolma...
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  • “Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje” page 30 ”Akong Rinpoché Establishing Buddha-Dharma: The Samye Project, http://www.akong.eu/dharma_8.htm Archived 2021-04-17...
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    Rinpoche by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. In 1967 the Johnstone House trustees invited the Tibetan lamas and refugees Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Rinpoche...
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  • Rinpoche and Akong Rinpoche in Oxford. He later gained British citizenship, registered 22 October 1970 and has lived in Britain ever since. As Akong Rinpoche...
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    "Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje" page 30 Akong Rinpoché Establishing Buddha-Dharma: The Samye Project, http://www.akong.eu/dharma_8.htm Archived 2021-04-17...
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    Zopa Rinpoche, Akong Rinpoche, Tulku Pema Tenzin, Kathak Tulku, Gelek Rimpoche, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, and the sons of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Chokyi...
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    Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2010. ”Akong Rinpoché Establishing Buddha-Dharma: The Samye Project, http://www.akong.eu/dharma_8.htm "Affiliated Centres...
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    London is under the direct guidance of Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Venerable Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, the co-founder and Abbot of Samye Ling respectively...
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  • Johnstone House facilities were offered to Tibetan Buddhist lamas led by Akong Rinpoché, under whose guidance and direction the Kagyu Samyé Ling Tibetan Buddhist...
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    is an international humanitarian organisation founded in 1980 by Akong Tulku Rinpoche, Lea Wyler and Dr. V. Wyler which operates principally in Nepal,...
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  • and later of Zopa Rinpoche, further studying with a number of others, including Prabhasa Dharma Roshi, Ayya Khema, Akong Rinpoche, and Rigdzin Shikpo...
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    traveled to European countries such as Spain to lecture on the topic. Akong Rinpoche Tenzin Choedrak Yeshi Dhonden Yuthog Yontan Gonpo Desi Sangye Gyatso...
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  • – Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager (b. 1921) 2013 – Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (b. 1939) 2014 – Morris Lurie, Australian...
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  • Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Akong Rinpoche, Tulku Pema Tenzin, Katak Tulku, Gelek Rimpoche, Yeshe Losal, and the sons of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima...
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    accomplished by many of the refugee Tibetan Lamas who escaped Tibet, such as Akong Rinpoche and Chögyam Trungpa who in 1967 were founders of Kagyu Samye Ling the...
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  • Bob James, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1939 – Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (d. 2013) 1940 – Hilary Spurling,...
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    Karmapa and 2nd Dudjom Rinpoche, both of whom gave extensive teachings from the works of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro, as well as Akong Rinpoche who, with the late...
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    including Tenga Rinpoche, Bardor Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Jigme Rinpoche. He was welcomed in London September 17, by Chime Rinpoche, Akong Rinpoche and others...
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    belongs to the Karma Kagyu school, propagated by Akong Rinpoche. In 1977, lamas Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche came to Ibiza, where they promoted the creation...
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  • near Dumfries in Scotland. A year earlier he had met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Tulku, Tibetan lamas at Oxford sent by the 16th Karmapa to study and...
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    1976, Dokushô Villalba, Denkō Mesa, and other monks) and Kagyu (from Akong Rinpoche's visit to Barcelona in 1977, invited by Lama Tsondru Zangmo). Currently...
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    University of Redlands he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche was actively engaged in helping protect the environment. In the Tibetan...
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  • bzang bstan 'dzin 5th Samdhong Rinpoche, Kalon Tripa of the 13th Kashag of the Tibetan government-in-exile Akong Rinpoche born 1939 - - - Loden Sherab Dagyab...
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    Samye Ling in the care of Akong Tulku Rinpoche when his father moved to North America in 1970. Later that year when Akong travelled to India, he left...
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  • Centre in Scotland. Nairn was the African representative for the late Akong Rinpoche and was responsible for eleven Buddhist centres in South Africa and...
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  • Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings). Akong Rinpoche, 73, Tibetan-born British Buddhist teacher and author, stabbed. Rottyful...
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    Scotland at Eskdalemuir. The pioneering monks were Chögyam Trungpa and Akong Rinpoche. The Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States took effect....
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    Rigpe Dorje, to make his way to Scotland where Chogyam Trungpa and Akong Tulku Rinpoche had established the first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the west, Kagyu...
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