About Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is a widely celebrated teacher known
for his skill in making the full richness of Buddhist wisdom accessible
to modern minds. A lover of urban culture, Rinpoche enjoys
writing
poetry and creating art of various kinds in his leisure time. Based in
the United States for the past 20 years, he devotes much of his energy
to his vision of a genuine American, and Western, Buddhism, free from
the cultural trappings that sometimes distort the Buddha’s essential
message of wakefulness. Born in 1965 in northeast India, Rinpoche
received comprehensive training in the meditative and intellectual
disciplines of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of many
of the greatest masters from Tibet’s final pre-exile generation. Among
the many organizational roles he juggles, he is the founder and
principal teacher of Nalandabodhi, an international network of Buddhist
practice centers. His latest book is Rebel
Buddha (Shambhala Publications) forthcoming in November
2010.
For more information, view Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's Web site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEM3qif5NHU Video Teaching: Mind Beyond Death (Part 1)