Tenzin Gyatso

Tenzin Gyatso

male, 74 years old
Tenzin Gyatso (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. As such, he is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai...
Naropa

Naropa

male, deceased (1100)
Naropa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: "Nadaprada", 1016-1100) was an Indian Buddhist mystic and monk, the pupil of Tilopa and brother, or some sources say...
Sogyal Rinpoche

Sogyal Rinpoche

male
Sogyal Rinpoche is a Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition. He has been teaching for over 30 years and continues to travel widely in...
Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa

male, deceased (1987)
Chögyam Trungpa was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and a Trungpa tülku. Widely recognized, both by Tibetan Bu...
Thrangu Rinpoche

Thrangu Rinpoche

male, 76 years old
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...
Tilopa

Tilopa

male, deceased (1069)
Tilopa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: Talika, 988 - 1069) was born in either Chativavo (Chittagong), Bengal or Jagora, Bengal. He was a tantric practitioner...
Dudjom Rinpoche

Dudjom Rinpoche

male, deceased (1987)
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...
Sakya Trizin

Sakya Trizin

male, 64 years old
Sakya Trizin is the head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. The spiritual leadership of the Sakya school is controlled by the descendants of...
Tarthang Tulku

Tarthang Tulku

male
Tarthang Tulku is a Tibetan teacher (lama) in the Nyingma tradition who lives in America, where he works to preserve the art and culture of Tibet....
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

male, 47 years old
Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, Jampal Trinley Dradul commonly afforded to tulkus.