Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
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Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, a highly-realized meditation master, artist and Tibetan physician, was born in Eastern Tibet in 1930. Recognized at an early age as an incarnation of the Abbot of Chagdud Gonpa monastery, he was thoroughly trained by many of Tibet's greatest lamas in the philosophy and meditation practices of Vajrayana Buddhism. He fled Tibet at the time of the Chinese occupation in 1959 and, at the request of H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche, helped establish and administer several refugee camps in both India and Nepal.
At the request of several American students, he came to the U. S. in 1979. Since then, through the Chagdud Gonpa Foundation, he has established centers for the study and practice of Vajrayana Buddhism throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Brazil.
Chagdud Tulku's primary residence is in Junction City, in the Trinity Alps region of Northern California.
