Milarepa

Milarepa

male, deceased (1135)
lama, Yogi, Buddhist, Jetsun Milarepa, Wylie transliteration, Rje btsun Mi la ras pa…tibetanbuddhism
Jetsun Milarepa, (c. 1052-c. 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets, a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major...
Naropa

Naropa

male, deceased (1100)
Mystic, Indian, nalanda, enlightenment, Mahasiddhas, Tibetan language…Tibetan Buddhist, Buddhism, tibetan, tibetanbuddhism
Naropa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: "Nadaprada", 1016-1100) was an Indian Buddhist mystic and monk, the pupil of Tilopa and brother, or some sources say...
Gampopa

Gampopa

male, deceased (1153)
lama, Indian, Mahamudra, six yogas of Naropa, Marpa, Tantric Buddhism…Old Tibetan, tibetanbuddhism, Tibetan Buddhist
Gampopa (1079-1153), also known as Dagpo Lhaje ("physician from Dagpo") and Dakpo Rinpoche ("Precious Master from Dagpo"), founded the Kagyu...
Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa

male, deceased (1987)
From Halifax, Nova Scotia, Naropa University, Buddhist, Shambhala Training, American, tibetan…Buddhism, tibetanbuddhism
Chögyam Trungpa was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and a Trungpa tülku. Widely recognized, both by Tibetan Bu...
Surya Das

Surya Das

male, 59 years old
Buddhism in the West, Kalu Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khenpo, Dilgo Khyentse, Rimé movement, Lamas…tibetanbuddhism, Buddhism, Buddhism in the United States
Lama Surya Das is a trained and authorized American-born lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist and...
Thrangu Rinpoche

Thrangu Rinpoche

male, 76 years old
lama, Kham, tulku, Lamas, rinpoche, tibetanbuddhism…tibetan
Thrangu Rinpoche was born in 1933 in Kham, Tibet. He is a prominent tulku (reincarnate lama) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, the ninth...
Dudjom Rinpoche

Dudjom Rinpoche

male, deceased (1987)
lama, nyingma, Tulkus, tibet, tibetanbuddhism, tibetan
Dudjom Rinpoche was the supreme leader of the Nyingmapa order of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in Tibet in 1904, and died on January 17th, 1987. He...
Tilopa

Tilopa

male, deceased (1069)
Indian, Mahasiddhas, Tibetan language, tantra, tantric practitioner, Buddha Vajradhara…tibetan, tibetanbuddhism
Tilopa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: Talika, 988 - 1069) was born in either Chativavo (Chittagong), Bengal or Jagora, Bengal. He was a tantric practitioner...
Ole Nydahl

Ole Nydahl

male, 68 years old
From Copenhagen, Buddhist, Lamas, Karma Kagyu, tibetanbuddhism, Kagyu…Buddhism
Lama Ole Nydahl (b. 19 March 1941 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Buddhist teacher and a Lama of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Since the...
Yeshe Tsogyal

Yeshe Tsogyal

female, deceased (817)
guru, tantric, mantra, sanskrit, Reincarnation, buddha…tibetanbuddhism, Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist teacher
Yeshe Tsogyel (rhymes with "may say so well"), also known in the Nyingma tradition as the Great Bliss Queen, is a semi-mythical female deity or...