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- noun In
Tibetan Buddhism , a high-rankinglama who can choose the manner of his or herrebirth .
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The word tulku means a network of emanations (Skt. nirmanakaya, emanation body).
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A tulku is a reincarnate lama, someone given the title
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A tulku is a reincarnate lama, someone given the title Rinpoche.
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He interviews 4 other young tulkus (too bad, all men!) as well as his own teacher, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche — all of whom question the place of tulku-hood in modern America.
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TULKU: Divine Birth, Ordinary Life is the new documentary by Gesar Mukpo (son of the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche) that is his intensely personal exploration of life as a tulku, or reincarnated Buddhist master.
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However, the first two stories: yeti rescue and tulku mountain climbing are a lot of fun, as the odd couple of Westerners in Nepal get into oddball situations.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Escape From Kathmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Tyson 2008
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It was almost unthinkable that more than one tulku (reincarnation) could be born into the same family and certainly my parents had no idea that I would be proclaimed Dalai Lama, His Holiness writes.
From Birth to Exile 2010
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It was almost unthinkable that more than one tulku (reincarnation) could be born into the same family and certainly my parents had no idea that I would be proclaimed Dalai Lama, His Holiness writes.
From Birth to Exile 2010
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An incarnation (tulku) is not necessarily a lama, and a lama is not necessarily an incarnation.
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Thus began the first line of Reincarnate Lamas (sprul-sku, “tulku”) in Tibet.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 4 The Pagmodru, Rinpung, and Tsangpa Hegemonies 2009
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