Ling Rinpoche

Ling Rinpoche Thubten Tenzin Lungtog Thrinle ( Tib: gling rin po che thub bstan ment rtogs bstan 'dzin ' phrin read; * 1903 in Yabphu near Lhasa, Dharamsala † 1983) was a senior tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatsho and the 97th Ganden Thripa.

Biography

Thubten Tenzin Lungtog Thrinle was born in 1903 in Yabphu north-west of Lhasa. He was the 13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatsho as Trülku his former tutor ( Tib: yongs ' dzin; Yongdzin ) Lobsang Tenzin Lungtog Thrinle ( 1850-1902 ) recognized and enthroned at the age of seven years as Ling Rinpoche. His extensive Buddhist training began after he was admitted at the age of about ten years in Drepung Loseling. The full ordination as a monk ( Tib. dge slong; gelong ) he received at the age of twenty years from the 13th Dalai Lama, the title Geshe Lharampa he received in 1924 at Norbulingka.

1936 Ling Rinpoche was dated 5 Radreng Rinpoche abbot of Gyüto ( rgyud stod grva tshang ) appointed. In 1940 he became a junior tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama. From 1950/51 Ling Rinpoche was also a political adviser of the 14th Dalai Lama and by 1953 the senior tutor.

In 1954 he accompanied the 14th Dalai Lama on a state visit to the People's Republic of China.

Two years later, in 1956, he traveled along with the 14th Dalai Lama to India by there the 2500th birthday ( Vesakh ) of the Buddha Sakyamuni ( the Buddhist calendar) to celebrate.

Like many other lamas of his generation fled Ling Rinpoche in 1959 before the People's Liberation Army from Tibet to India, where he first inter alia, lived with the 14th Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. He founded representative of the 14th Dalai Lama a school for Buddhist Dialectics in Ladakh and visited refugee settlements in Dalhousie in Chamba and Buxa in Assam. In 1960 a move to Dharamsala. In the course of a serious illness Ling Rinpoche was initially in Calcutta, then treat in Darjeeling, in Switzerland and in Paris. Successful treatment, however, he wrote to the Tibetan medicine.

After the death of the 96th Ganden Thripa Ling Rinpoche was appointed the 97th Ganden Thripa and the abbot of Gaden Phelgye Ling Monastery in Bodhgaya 1965.

In 1968, Ling Rinpoche and Trijang Rinpoche invited to Rikon to the local monastic Tibet Institute Rikon inaugurate.

Back in India Ling Rinpoche gave teachings on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim 1969 chenmo in Gaden Phelgye Ling Monastery in Bodhgaya. In 1972, he traveled once more to Europe and to North America in 1980.

In September 1983, Ling Rinpoche Thubten Tenzin Lungtog Thrinle suffered a massive stroke in Dharamsala. A few months later he died there at the age of 80 years.