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[[Image:Ato_Rinpoche.jpg‎|frame|'''Ato Rinpoche during a visit to [[Dzogchen Beara]] in 1999]]
'''Ato Rinpoche''' (b.1933), the nephew of [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]], is a master of both [[Mahamudra]] and [[Dzogchen]]. He was recognised by the [[Palpung Situ Pema Wangchok Gyalpo|Eleventh Tai Situ]] as the eighth incarnation of the Tenzin Tulkus. In 1959 after leaving Tibet for India, [[His Holiness the Dalai Lama]] placed him in charge of a monastery housing teachers of all [[four schools|four lineages]]. In 1976 he married and moved to Cambridge, England where he lives with his wife and daughter. He worked as a nurse at Fulbourn Psychiatric Hospital, Cambridge, until his retirement in 1981.

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