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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
1910 CE–1991 CE · Modern · Denkhok (Denma), Derge
1910–1991 CE
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991 CE) was one of the most influential Nyingma masters of the 20th century and a leading inheritor of the nonsectarian (Rimé) tradition. Born in the Denkhok valley of the Derge region in Kham, he was recognized in the Khyentse incarnation line and became a prolific teacher, scholar, and 'treasure-revealer' (tertön). After the upheavals around 1959 he taught widely in exile—closely connected with Bhutan and with the rebuilt Shechen monastery in Nepal—and was a principal teacher to many later Tibetan and Western practitioners. He is thoroughly documented.
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DOCUMENTED ORIGIN: born in 1910 in the Denkhok valley of the Denma region of Derge in Kham and recognized as an incarnation in the Khyentse line.
About Denkhok (Denma), Derge
Denkhok, in the Denma area of the Derge region of Kham (eastern Tibet, now near the Sichuan border), was the birthplace, in 1910, of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the most influential Nyingma masters of the twentieth century, who later did much to preserve Tibetan Buddhism in exile.
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