Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche will visit Russia for the first time

Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche  will lead Kurukulla puja and will give teaching on the Lineage Chokling Tresar on the 7th of Sempetember in the Tubten Ling at 12 am.

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Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche was born in 1951 in Nangchen region of Kham in Eastern Tibet. He is the son of the Third Neten Chokling Rinpoche. He is the elder brother of Khyentse Yeshe Rinpoche, Jamyang Gyaltsen and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and is affectionately called Abu Rinpoche (Abu meaning 'older brother' in the Kham dialect of Tibetan).

At the end of the 1950s Rinpoche left Tibet and went to Sikkim with his parents where he lived for a few years. It is said that Rinpoche followed his father everywhere. In 1967, Chokling Rinpoche started the Tibetan settlement of Bir in Himachal Pradesh, North East India. It was on the way from Delhi to Bir that His Eminence died tragically in a car accident in 1973.

After the passing away of his father, Rinpoche took care of his monastery - Pema Ewam Chogar Gyurme Ling Monastery - in Bir. He raised the young reincarnation of his father, the 4th Neten Chokling Rinpoche, before passing over to him in 2004 full responsibility for a monastery that had become famous throughout the Tibetan world, particularly among the Nyingma school, for its expertise in elaborate Vajrayana rituals, Rinpoche's specialty.

Rinpoche also attended Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche for many years, and it was with him that he first went to the West. After he first taught in Dordogne, France, at Pema Wangyal Rinpoche's centre, his mother heard that his teachings had been recorded, and asked for the tapes. When she listened to them, she was amazed at her son's knowledge, because she had never really seen him study. Rinpoche is well known for his incredible memory and the depth of his knowledge, particularly in the field of Vajrayana practices and rituals, and history. He also has a reputation for being a formidable orator.

Between 2004 and 2006 Rinpoche went twice to Tibet in order to rebuild the monastery of his father, Neten Gon.