Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche (Tibetan: དར་ཐང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Wylie: Dar-thang Sprul-sku Rin-po-che) (born 1934) is a Tibetan Vajrayana teacher and lama who introduced the Nyingma school tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to the United States.

In 1969, Tarthang Tulku became the first lama of the Nyingma lineage to settle in the United States. He has written over 34 books that have been translated into various Western languages and adopted for class use by universities around the world.

The Nyingma Institute, founded by Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, is one of America’s oldest Tibetan Buddhist centers of learning. Step 1: Heal the causes of suffering and generate a positive momentum of body, speech and mind. Step 2: Enter a path of …

Among his many unique accomplishments, Tarthang Tulku is the founder of the Odiyan Buddhist Retreat Center and the Nyingma Monlam Chenmo World Peace Ceremony held annually at Bodh Gaya, India, where, since 1989, he has freely distributed more than six million sacred texts to lamas, monks, and nuns of the Tibetan community.

Odiyan is the brainchild of Tarthang Rinpoche, by a large audience known as Tarthang Tulku. His students and followers call him Rinpoche. Tarthang Rinpoche (1936) was born in in the mountains of Golok, in North-Eastern Tibet.

Tarthang Tulku (Tibetan: དར་ཐན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Wylie: Dar-than Sprul-sku Rin-po-che) (born 1934) is a Tibetan teacher (lama) in the Nyingma tradition who lives in America, where he works to preserve the art and culture of Tibet.

Tarthang Tulku has 168 books on Goodreads with 7903 ratings. Tarthang Tulku’s most popular book is Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-Healing...

Tarthang Tulku is one of the last remaining lamas to have received a complete education in pre-1959 Tibet. After teaching at Sanskrit University in India and founding Dharmamudranalaya (Dharma Publishing) in India, he settled in Berkeley, California in l969.

Tarthang Tulku Künga Gelek Yeshe Dorje (Tib. དར་ཐང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཀུན་དགའ་དགེ་ལེགས་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. dar thang sprul sku kun dga' dge legs ye shes rdo rje) (b. 1934/5) is a Nyingma teacher based in America. He was born in Archung in the Golok region of Amdo, and educated at Tarthang, a branch monastery of Palyul.