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A Short Biography of Tulku Losang Namgyal Rinpoche

Tulku Losang Namgyal Rinpoche was born in 1970 in Morea, Raniban VDC ward no.-4, Okhaldhunga to mother Man Maya Tamang and father Dal Bahadur Tamang.

In his previous life he was abbot of the Old Tamang Monastery Trust of Swoyambu ( Dubkhang Choeling Monastery) and was known as Mahasiddha Yogi Maila Kaji Tamang. His family name was Durga Bahadur Lama. His father’s name was Chakra Bahadur Lama Tamang and mother’s name was Sukrani Lama Tamang.

According to Rinpoche himself, he died at the age of 42 and was born to a woman of a Newari family in Lyeng Lyeng, Betani village in the Ramechhap district.

When he was six months old and it was the of the child rice-feeding ceremony, he became aware of his previous life and also his future. However he again died after a very short time. Later he was reborn into his present life in Morea village, Okhaldunga, and when he started to speak as a child he started to talk about his former life.

He was then brought to Kathmandu from Okhaldunga in 1975 for the first time and started to reveal the events of his former life such as recognizing his former monastery, home and family, and all the objects that belonged to him in his previous life.

imageHis Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa recognized the six year old boy as the reincarnation of the former abbot of Swoyambhu Monastery, Maila Kaji Tamang. He then gave him the name Karma Namgyal Gyurmey Dorje at Kanying Shedupling (White Monastery) at Boudha, Nepal on March 10, 1976. Rinpoche then began to study the Buddha Dharma with Venerable Lobsang Gendun in 1976 at the Maitriya Bihar, Swoyambu. He was ordained as a novice monk by Kyabje Serkong Tsenchab Rinpoche and given the name Thubten Samten in 1978.

Rinpoche was then brought to Pal Hogmin Jyangchub Choeling ( Kopan Monastery) to study. He was given basic teachings by Lama Thubten Yeshe and received the name Losang Namgyal Rinpoche. Later he took teachings on Buddhist wisdom and method from Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche and Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel.

In 1993 he started to travel abroad and continued his further studies on Buddhism under the leadership and guidance of Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche and then later began to associate with Lamas, Tulkus and Khenpos. He traveled to many places and countries and became involved in many and various activities to spread the Dharma.

Rinpoche received the transmission of Guru Yoga and the precepts of fully ordained monk from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, in 2003. He also received initiations, transmissions and explanations of the Buddha Dharma, Secret Treasure, Tantras and Mantras from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Kirti Tsenchab Rinpoche, Geshe Lama Konchog, Lama Yeshe Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche,Kyabje Khensur Geshe Lama Lhundrup Rigsel, Kyabje Denma Locho Rinpoche( Dharamsal), Kyabje Geshe Senge (Mongolia), Kyabje Serme Khenchu Dakpa Rinpoche, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Kyabje Chogye Trizin Rinpoche, Kyabje Sakya Trizin Gongma Rinpoche, Kyabje Jyangche Losang Tenzin Rinpoche and many other high Lamas.

He was enthroned by Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche of the Shechen Monastery on the 8th February, 2010 at Chhorten Tashi Tamang Monastery, Jorpati, Kathmandu.

Losang Namgyal Rinpoche visiting H. H. the 14th Dalai lama Later on 5th August 2010, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Gyalwang Tenzin Gyatso officially recognized Tulku Losang Namgyal Rinpoche as the reincarnation of Mahasiddha Yogi – Lama Maila Kaji, the abbot of the Old Tamang Monastery Trust of Swoyambu ( Dubkhang Choeling Monastery). He was then enthroned in a traditional ceremony by Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Lama Lhundrup Rigsel, on 18th August 2010, at Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, according to the wishes of His Holiness the14th Dalai Lama and Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. He established the Buddhist Awareness Center in 1998 in Kathmandu in order to disseminate the Buddha Dharma and carry out social service activities, especially for the Tamang society and followers of Himalayan Buddhism. His activities include teaching programs, building and renovating prayers hall, stupas, Mani Prayer wheels and other holy objects in the more remote areas of Nepal. Through the BAC, he has also conducted social welfare activities such as building schools, providing smokeless stoves, solar lights as well supporting medical camps.

Rinpoche plans to build a new monastic complex which will be a centre of Buddhist study and spirituality for both the monastic sangha and the lay community. It will also contain a clinic and be coordination centre for outreach Dharma and social work. This will be completed by 2020.Biogrtaphy of Tulku Losang Namgyal Rinpoche