Kalou Rinpoch

Kalu Rinpoche
Kalu Rinpoche in 1987 to the Congregation Kagyu Rinchen Ling Chih in Montpellier
Birth	1905 Kham ( Tibet )
Deaths	May 10, 1989 Monastery Sonada (Samdrup Tarjayling) (India)
School / tradition	Kagyu ( Tibetan Buddhism )
Rinpoche
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye	Karma Gyaltsen Ngedn Tenpay Karma Gyaltsen Ngedn Tenpay

Kalu Rinpoche was born in 1905 in the region Trhor in Kham (eastern Tibet). In the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism , there is first a monk belonging to the school of Kagyu.

Summary 1 Biography 2 Successor of Kalu Rinpoche 3 Bibliography 4 See also

Biography

Kalu Rinpoche's father was the 13 ^th Ratak Pelzang Tulku, a physician and yogi disciple Jamgon Kongtrul Lodr Taye , of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Mipham Rinpoche , all three masters of the movement Rime (nonsectarian).

At age 13, children between the monastery of Palpung where the ^9thTai Situ Rinpoche gives him the name Karma Rangdjoung Knkhyap. He continued his studies and obtained very young the title of Khenpo (abbot). At 16, he made a 3 year retreat under the guidance of his root teacher, Lama Norbu Dndroup, which he received the complete transmission lines and Karma Kagyu Kagyu Shangpa. Expressing a strong preference for the contemplative life, he began a 25-year long retreat in the mountains of Kham , in wandering yogi without possession. After 12 years, he has to leave his hermitage, recalled by the 9 ^thTai Situ Rinpoche to take charge as master of meditation retreats 3 years Palpung. At that time, the ^16thKarmapa recognized him as the incarnation of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodr Taye.

In the '40s, he made several trips and pilgrimages, visiting many monasteries, give lessons to revitalize the tradition Shangpa including regent and teaches at Lhasa. Then he returned to Kham , where he continued his activity. In 1955 , when he was 51 years, problems related to the invasion of Kham by Chinese troops do return to Central Tibet. In Tsurphu , the ^16thKarmapa asked him to leave Tibet in order to pave the way India and Bhutan for exile. In 1957 , Kalu Rinpoche in Bhutan as chaplain of the royal family. He established two centers and retirement orders 300 monks. In 1966 he moved to India and founded the Monastery of Sonada in Darjeeling , on land that was offered Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche , one of the guardians of the Dalai Lama. This monastery became his principal residence and the headquarters of the Kagyu lineage Shangpa, with a center for retreats of 3 years. Around 1968 , he met his first Western disciples. This Lama is one of the first to introduce Tibetan Buddhism to the West. He founded some fifty centers around the world, especially in Burgundy , with the Temple of Dashang Kagyu Ling and Savoy with the Institute Karmaling. In 1989, he retired near his own, in the Himalayas , where he died. He also teaches at all tulkus senior Karma Kagyu school, and the Dalai Lama himself and many of Geshes Gelugpa Tantric College. In 1971 , encouraged by the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa , he accepted the invitation of Western followers and made his first trip to Europe and North America. He founded the first center in Canada and form a meditation group in Paris. During his subsequent voyages, in 1974 and 1976 -77, Western interests is confirmed, and he founded France's first retirement center for 3 years in the West, Dashang Kagyu Ling , also known as the Temple Thousand Buddha. The following year he founded Kagyu Rinchen Ling Chih in Montpellier in 1987 and blessed the work of a temple built in the Himalayan tradition who will be dedicated in 1990 by Bokar Rinpoche. For centers that has created in North America and Europe, he brought a couple of llamas that will ensure the continuity and development activities. Between 1971 and 1989 he performed as a dozen major travel, teaching Dharma to Westerners increasingly numerous. It was in 1980 that Kalu Rinpoche, who has just given to the Pagoda of the Bois de Vincennes , for the first time in the West, the great initiation of Kalachakra followed by a very large attendance, meeting John Ober , Secretary General of the Institute International Buddhist who wanted to improve the animation. Thus was born the project of the Temple Kagyu-Dzong , the first stone was laid on 20 March 1983 and will be built in two years. In 1983 , Kalu Rinpoche gives India for several months the great cycle of empowerments of the Rinchen Terdz in the presence of four regents of the Karmapa and thousands of monks, nuns and laity. In 1989 , his health declined and on May 10 , he died in Sonada in meditation posture, staying three days in samadhi.

Kalu Rinpoche is a pioneer in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. He leaves behind a tremendous legacy to his disciples and spiritual amount of centers worldwide.

In France, Belgium, Spain, many centers perpetuate the legacy of this tradition thanks to the lamas from directors for most of his monastery and that their master has entrusted the mission to teach in the West. For many years, having taken vows with him, they have received initiations and instructions, the texts studied, taught and performed rituals and meditated in retreat traditional three years, three months: Lama Gyurme ; Lama Seunam ; Lama Sonam Tshering , Lama Karta , Lama Drubgyu ; Lama Denys