Namkhai Norbu (Tibetan: ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: nam mkha’i nor bu; 8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen[1] and a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at Naples Eastern University.[2] He was a leading authority on Tibetan culture, particularly in the fields of history, literature, traditional religions (Tibetan Buddhism and Bon), and Traditional Tibetan medicine, having written numerous books and scholarly articles on these subjects.[3][4]
When he was two years old, Norbu was recognized as the mindstream emanation, a tulku, of the Dzogchen teacher Adzom Drugpa (1842–1924). At five, he was also recognized as a mindstream emanation of an emanation of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594–1651). At the age of sixteen, he met master Rigdzin Changchub Dorje (1863–1963),[5] who became his main Dzogchen teacher.[6]
In 1960, he went to Italy at the invitation of Giuseppe Tucci and served as Professor of Tibetan and Mongolian Language and Literature from 1964 to 1992 at Naples Eastern University. In 1983, he hosted the first International Convention on Tibetan Medicine, held in Venice, Italy.[7]
In 1976, Norbu began to give Dzogchen instruction in the West, first in Italy, then in numerous other countries. He became a respected spiritual authority among many practitioners, and created centers for the study of Dzogchen worldwide.[8] Norbu taught Dzogchen for more than fifty years and was considered by the Tibetan government in exile as "the foremost living Dzogchen" teacher at the time of his death, in 2018.[9][10] Norbu founded the Dzogchen Community, which today has centers around the world, including in the US, Mexico, Australia, Russia, and China.[10]
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NamkhaiNorbu (Tibetan: ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: nam mkha’i nor bu; 8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and...
India Khyentse Norbu, a lama from Bhutan Norbulingka, a palace in Lhasa, Tibet Chogyal NamkhaiNorbu, a Dzogchen teacher Gyaincain Norbu, the eleventh...
agrees with the view of Madhyamaka as elucidated by Nāgārjuna, Chögyal NamkhaiNorbu explains: ...Madhyamaka explains with the four "beyond concepts," which...
masters like NamkhaiNorbu). According to NamkhaiNorbu, the three series are three modes of presenting and introducing the state of Dzogchen. Norbu states...
meditation, on the other hand, is considered contrived and conceptual. NamkhaiNorbu Rinpoche (1938-2018), a proponent of trul khor, preferred to use the...
Tsultrim (2000). Women of Wisdom. (Includes transcribed interview with NamkhaiNorbu) Source: [1] (accessed: November 15, 2007) Hatchell (2014), pp. 9–10...
Tibetan spiritual master NamkhaiNorbu, who struggles to save his spiritual tradition, and his son, Khyentse Yeshi Namkhai (Yeshi), who stubbornly refuses...
རྫོང་གསར་འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།, born June 18, 1961), also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Tibetan/Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer. His five major films...
Dzogchen), consider perceived reality literally unreal. As Chögyal NamkhaiNorbu puts it: "In a real sense, all the visions that we see in our lifetime...
ISBN 0-8348-0391-7. Norbu, Chögyal Namkhai (1988). Shane, John (ed.). The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen: The Teachings of NamkhaiNorbu (1st ed...
Khandro comes from the oral commentary that she gave in person to Chogyal NamkhaiNorbu in Dzongsa in 1951. He wrote her namthar, or spiritual biography, which...
organization and now headed by his son; and the networks associated with NamkhaiNorbu Rinpoche (the Dzogchen Community) and Sogyal Rinpoche (Rigpa). Tibetan...
1st Karmapa Lama meditated upon her in early childhood. According to NamkhaiNorbu, Ekajati is the principal guardian of the Dzogchen teachings and is...
Dzogchen) consider perceived reality to be literally unreal. As Chögyal NamkhaiNorbu puts it: "In a real sense, all the visions that we see in our lifetime...
Sikkim for the funeral. ... Norbu, Namkhai (1988, 2000). The Crystal and the Way of Light: The Teachings of NamkhaiNorbu. (Snow Lion Publications) pg...
important to traditions of Dzogchen, representing the ground or base. NamkhaiNorbu (1938–2018) writes that the term base denotes "the fundamental ground...
boiling over of milk (rlung ta ta rgyug/ kha rje 'o ma 'phyur 'phyur/). NamkhaiNorbu Rinpoche elaborates on the traditional understanding and etymology of...
Army, the majority of Sakya Monastery's monks were forced to leave. As NamkhaiNorbu states in his book, "previously there were about five hundred monks...
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