Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920 –1996) - an accomplished scholar and practitioner of the Kagyü and Nyingma schools, and the reincarnation of the former Guru Chöwang Tulku. Whilst still in eastern Tibet he spent a period of three years in retreat, and later he again spent three years in retreat at Tsurphu in Central Tibet. After leaving Tibet due to the Chinese occupation he spent a further three years in retreat in Sikkim and then resided at Nagi Gonpa Hermitage, a nunnery above the Kathmandu valley. He established several monasteries and retreat centres in Nepal. He is the author of Vajra Heart, a book on Dzogchen, and in recent years gave instruction to numerous Western students. He was famed for his profound meditative realization, as a teacher of Dzogchen and Mahamudra, and for his method of teaching, known as ‘instruction through one’s own experience’.