The Panchen Lama is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Panchen Lama is one of the most important figures in the Gelug tradition,with its spiritual authority second only to the Dalai Lama. Along with the council of high lamas,he is in charge of seeking out the next Dalai Lama. Panchen is a portmanteau of Pandita and Chenpo,meaning "great scholar".
The Ganden Tripa,also spelled Gaden Tripa,is the title of the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism,the school that controlled central Tibet from the mid-17th century until the 1950s. The 103rd Ganden Tripa,Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin,died in office on 21 April 2017. Currently,Jangtse Choejey Kyabje Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Palsangpo is the 104th Ganden Tripa.
The Dorje Shugden controversy is a controversy over Dorje Shugden,also known as Dolgyal,whom some consider to be one of several protectors of the Gelug school,the school of Tibetan Buddhism to which the Dalai Lamas belong. Dorje Shugden has become the symbolic focal point of a conflict over the "purity" of the Gelug school and the inclusion of non-Gelug teachings,especially Nyingma ones.
Reting Rinpoche was a title held by abbots of Reting Monastery,a Buddhist monastery in central Tibet.
Samdhong Rinpoche is a Tibetan religious title. Rinpoche means "precious one". The current Samdhong Rinpoche is Lobsang Tenzin,who is considered by Tibetan buddhists to be the reincarnation of the 4th Samdhong Rinpoche.
Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso (བློ་བཟང་ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇིགས་མེད་རྒྱ་མཚོ་),officially the 8th Arjia Hotogtu(ཨ་ཀྱཱ་ཧོ་ཐོག་ཐུ།),born 1950 in Haiyan County,Qinghai) is one of the most prominent Buddhist teachers and lamas to have left Tibet. At age two,Arjia Rinpoche was recognized by Choekyi Gyaltsen,10th Panchen Lama as the 20th Arjia Danpei Gyaltsen,the reincarnation of Je Tsongkhapa's father,Lumbum Ghe,the throne holder and abbot of Kumbum Monastery. He has trained with lineage teachers,such as the 14th Dalai Lama,the 10th Panchen Lama,and Gyayak Rinpoche—from whom he received many sacred teachings and ritual instructions.
The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies,formerly called Central University for Tibetan Studies (CUTS),is a Deemed University founded in Sarnath,Varanasi,India,in 1967,as an autonomous organisation under Union Ministry of Culture. The CIHTS was founded by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation with Tenzin Gyatso,the 14th Dalai Lama,with the aim of educating Tibetan youths in exile and Himalayan border students as well as with the aim of retranslating lost Indo-Buddhist Sanskrit texts that now existed only in Tibetan,into Sanskrit,to Hindi,and other modern Indian languages.
Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen,1894–1977,known also as Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen,Tenzin Gyaltsen,and various other names like Kunu Rinpoche,Kunu Lama and Negi Lama,was born in 1894 in the village of Sunam which lies in the Kinnaur district of India in the western Himalayas. He passed away at the age of 82 at Shashur Monastery in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachel Pradesh on February 23,1977,while teaching the final page of Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation. Khunu Rinpoche was not officially recognized as a tulku,nor was he an ordained Buddhist monk,but a layman who had taken lay practitioner's vows before becoming a Tibetan Buddhist master.
Kyabje Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche is the current tulku of the third Trijang Rinpoche,and succeeded Trijang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso. Rinpoche is the current principal throne holder of Shar Gaden Monastic University in South India,Karnataka,and the spiritual director of the Trijang Buddhist Institute in Northfield,Vermont.
Tempa Tsering.
The Sikyong is the political leader of the Central Tibetan Administration,a Tibetan exile organisation in India also known as the Tibetan Government-in-Exile based on the 2011 Charter of Tibetans-in-exile. The title was created in 2012 after the 14th Dalai Lama decided not to assume any political and administrative authority as the head of the Tibetan Administration for Tibetans-in-exile.
Lobsang Gyatso (1928–1997) was a Tibetan monk who founded the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Delhi,India.
Lobsang Sangay is a Tibetan-American politician in exile who was Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan Administration in India from 2011 to 2012,and Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration in India from 2012 to 2021.
Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari Rinpoche,Kasur Lodi Gyari or "as he is universally known to the Tibetan-speaking world,Gyari Rinpoche" was a Tibetan politician,and journalist who served as the 14th Dalai Lama's special envoy to the United States. Exiled to India in 1959,he was also the executive chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet.
The Third Trijang Rinpoche,Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (1901–1981) was a Gelugpa Lama and a direct disciple of Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo. He succeeded Ling Rinpoche as the junior tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama when the Dalai Lama was nineteen years old. He was also a lama of many Gelug lamas who taught in the West including Zong Rinpoche,Geshe Rabten,Lama Yeshe,Kelsang Gyatso,and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Trijang Rinpoche's oral teachings were recorded by Zimey Rinpoche in a book called the Yellow Book.
Elections for the office of Sikyong and the Chitue (Members) of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile were held between October 18,2015 and March 20,2016. Tibetans in exile voted for the fourth time their political representative and executive of the Central Tibetan Administration,the self-proclaimed Tibetan government in exile. The election was overseen and organized by the independent CTA agency,Tibetan Election Commission.
General elections for the Central Tibetan Administration were held on 29 July 2001. For the first time,voters elected the Kalön Tripa,as well as members of Parliament. Previously the Prime Minister had been appointed by the Dalai Lama under the Parliament's ratification. This was part of a series of reforms encouraged by the Dalai Lama for the democratization of the exile Tibetan community. Lobsang Tenzin,the 5th Samdhong Rinpoche won the election with more than 80% of the vote.
Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche,was a Buddhist monk,Abbot of Sera Jey Monastery,and the founder of Tibetan Buddhist Institute (Adelaide). Khensur means "former abbot" and Rinpoche means "precious teacher."
Lobsang Nyandak,sometimes written Lobsang Nyendak also called Lobsang Nyandak Zayul is a Tibetan diplomat and politician. born in 1965 in Kalimpong,India where he performed his studies in Herbertpur and at Panjab University in Chandigarh. There,he held functions at Tibetan Youth Congress before becoming the founding Executive Director of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. Member of the National Democratic Party of Tibet,he was elected deputy and was selected as a minister by Samdhong Rinpoche,the first elected Kalon Tripa of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). He then was the Representative of the 14th Dalai Lama to the Americas and became president of The Tibet Fund.
Penpa Tsering is a Tibetan politician based in India. He is the second democratically elected Sikyong of the Central Tibetan Administration in India. He succeeded the last Sikyong Lobsang Sangay on 27 May 2021. Penpa Tsering was the speaker of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration for two terms between 2008 and 2016.
