Nyala Rinpoche

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Changchub Dorje Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ Wylie: byang chub rdo rje ZWPY: Qangqub Dojê

Nyala Rinpoche Rigdzin Changchub Dorje (1826?–1961/1978)^[1] was a teacher of Dzogchen, terton and practitioner of Tibetan medicine. He was born in the Nyarong (nyag rong) region of East Tibet (Kham). Teachers of Nyala Rinpoche were Adzom Drugpa, Nyala Pema Dündul, his student Nyala Terton Rangrig Dorje and Bön teacher Shardza Rinpoche.

Nyala Rinpoche organized and lead a community of Dzogchen practitioners in Nyalagar also known as Khamdogar, Dedrol area^[2], Kham. In 1978 he is said to have attained rainbow body. If he was born in 1826 as is claimed, he would have lived to be older than the oldest man ever documented.

One of his students is Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ All sources give 1826 as year of birth; some sources give 1961 and others 1978 as year of death
2. ^ gdeng grol (sp?). This area is probably located in 'jo rdzong (modern administrative unit Gonjo County)

[edit] References

• Norbu, Namkhai (1996). Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State by Chogyal.
• Norbu, Namkhai (2000). The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen.

[edit] External links

• Ka-Ter project