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Choeje (King of Dharma) Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche was the incarnation of the great terton Terchen Lerab Lingpa, who was a teacher of His Holiness the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. In 1980, wanting to revitalize Dharma and benefit all sentient beings, Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche established Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy at Larung Valley near Serthar, Sichuan Province, China. This site was chosen because of its history as a sacred place in Vajrayana, where monks went to achieve “rainbow body” (a high level of spiritual achievement) and realize the “four karmas”. It is also said to have been the place where His Holiness the First Dudjom Rinpoche stayed, and at which his thirteen disciples attained “rainbow body”. The aim of the institute can be summarized as four pursuits: to unite Buddhists in harmony; to uphold pure precepts; to study, reflect upon, and practice the sacred Dharma; and to propagate the Dharma and benefit all beings.

 

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His Holiness Jigme Phuntsoc Rinpoche (1933-2004) was a prominent teacher in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and a master of the Great Perfection. He was recognized as a terton (treasure revealer) and an incarnation of Sogyal Lerab Lingpa, a teacher to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. His Holiness was renowned for his consummate skill in communicating the Dharma and remarkably personable and compassionate spiritual leadership.

 

H.H. DAKINI MUNTSO

The Most Venerable Dakini Muntso, niece of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, was born on the 2nd day of the 12th Tibetan month in 1966 (the Year of the Fire Horse) in Sertar, Sichuan Province. She is an embodiment of many bodhisattvas and is commonly recognized as the emanation of Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal by many accomplished masters worldwide. In the Tibetan year of the Wood Monkey (2004), after the nirvana of His Holiness, Dakini Muntso was elected as the leader of Larung Five Sciences Buddhist College by all the Sangha there.

 

H.H. GYALWA KARMAPA

His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, was born in 1985 in the Lhothok, Tibet. His Holiness is the head of the 900 year old Karma Kagyu Lineage and guide to millions of Buddhists around the world.

 

KHENPO JAMYANG

Khenpo Karma Jamyang Gyaltsen is a senior teacher at the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Serthar, Sichuan, part of the Tibetan area known as Kham. He was born in 1962 in Nyarong, in Kardze, also in Kham. He is currently one of the main teachers at Larung Gar, which is the largest monastic institution in Tibet, if not in the world. He is the director of training in the Kagyu tradition at Larung Gar and was designated by 17 th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu tradition, to oversee the reconstruction of monasteries in Kham.

 

KHENPO TSULTRIM LODRO

Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö is a renowned contemporary Nyingma teacher of Tibetan Buddhism based at Larung Gar (formally known as the Serthar Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Institute), where he serves as a standing Vice Principal. He is a native of Draggo (Ch: Luhuo) County in Sichuan Province. He is an influential public intellectual and a strong advocate of Tibetan culture.

 

KHENCHEN SODARGYE

Khenchen Sodargye, from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, is a Tibetan Buddhist mentor, translator and charitarian. Khenpo was born in Luhuo county of Sichuan in 1962. After having studied at Ganze Normal School, Khenpo was ordained by His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche at Sertar Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in 1985. In the past 30 years, Khenpo has taught Buddhadharma of different subjects for more than 15,000 hours. While having been trained systematically in Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Khenpo has also embraced worldly knowledge, such as medicine, literature, psychology, physics and other fields in modern sciences.