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Choseng Trungpa

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Choseng Trungpa
TitleTulku
Personal
Born (1989-02-06) February 6, 1989 (age 35)
ReligionBuddhism
NationalityTibetan
SchoolVajrayana
LineageKarma Kagyu
Senior posting
TeacherKarma Senge Rinpoche
PredecessorChögyam Trungpa
ReincarnationTrungpa Tulku

Choseng Trungpa Rinpoche is the 12th and current Trungpa tülku.[1] He was born on February 6, 1989, in Pawo village, in Derge, eastern Tibet. He was recognized by Tai Situ Rinpoche in 1991,[2] and enthroned a year later at Surmang Monastery at a ceremony presided over by Domkhar Rinpoche, a high Kagyu lama and Choseng's uncle. The monastery's late abbot (and Choseng Trungpa's predecessor), was Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Choseng studied the traditions of Surmang under the tutelage of Lama Kenla (1932–2003) and received his early monastic education at the shedra at Palpung Monastery. He studied at Surmang Namgyal-tse until 2008, and now studies at Serthar Institute.[3][4]

The name Choseng is a contraction of Chokyi Sengay (Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ་, Wylie: Chos-kyi Seng-ge), which means "Lion of Dharma."

In 2001, he met for the first time with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, the son of his previous incarnation, Chögyam Trungpa.

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  1. ^ Midal (2005) p. 18
  2. ^ Harry Oldmeadow (2004) p.290
  3. ^ "Chokyi Senge, Trungpa XII Rinpoche". Biography of Chokyi Sengay, Trungpa XII. Konchok Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Biography of recent Trungpas". Simhanada web site. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008.

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