Tu Viện Hộ Pháp Monastery

 First All-Tibetan Meeting

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This  photo shows Tibetan lamas from all the major Tibetan Buddhist traditions  at the occasion of the the very first Dharma meeting held in His  Holiness the Dalai Lama's first residence in exile, in Dharamsala, North  India, 1963.

On the left side of HH Dalai Lama is Sakya Gongma  Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa and Dudjom Rinpoche. On the right side of HH  the Dalai Lama is the 6th Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche, the 3rd Yongdzin  Trijang Rinpoche and Bhakula Rinpoche.

Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche is  on the backside of the 16th Karmapa and Dudjom Rinpoche. There are many  more eminent scholars from different schools of Tibetan Buddhism  including Gen Pema Gyaltsen and others in this picture.

There has been an effort to idenfy all Masters on the photo by mrtn@xs4all.nl:

1Sa-skya Khen-po Sang-gyay Ten-zin

7 Dze-may Rinpoche (b.1927), author of the "Timely Shower" which re-started the Shug-den controversy in the 1970s

9 Maybe number 9 is Kalsang Rinpoche?

12 Nyi-ma Gen-tsen (sp?), teacher to HHDL for Tsong-kha-pa's "Essence of Eloquence"

13 name unknown, Dre-bung Go-mang Geshe

14 Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche, spiritual leader of Jewel Heart?

16  Ngawang Thondup Narkyid, the co-author with Melvin Goldstein of the big  red "English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan," and collaborator in  the "Fluent Tibetan" language course out of the University of Virginia.  He is currently the biographer of HH the Dalai Lama, and works in HH's  office in Dharamsala. After careers as an official in the Potala in the  1940s and as a "young communist" in Beijing, he became a guerrilla after  the 1959 Lhasa Uprising and made his way to India, then eventually to  the University of Michigan where he received a Masters degree in  Linguistics. He has travelled and taught extensively.

17 Could be Tulshik Rinpoche one of the spiritual masters of HHDL.

18 Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

19 Kalu Rinpoche

20 Drukpa Tuksey Rinpoche, important Drukpa Kagyu master

21 Khunu Rinpoche?

22 name unknown, Abbot emeritus of Gan-den Jang-tsay

26 Ban-gor (sp?) Rinpoche

28 Sha-gor Ken-dru (sp?), currently not a monk; living in Switzerland

30  His Holiness Taklung Matul who was the previous Lineage Holder of  Taklung Kagyu.The present one is now residing in dharamsala. Taklung  Matul is the lineage holder from Marthang the biggest Taklung Monastery.  This picture is confirmed by HH Taklung Matul himself (the present  one).

31 Dra-yap Gyam-gön (sp?), currently not a monk; living in Paris?

A Gelug lama Dagyab Kyabgön Rinpoche who now is living in Germany and is a teacher of Chödzong [www.choedzong.de].

32 Ser-kong Tsen-shap Rinpoche

33 Dre-bung Loseling Abbot, Pe-ma Gen-tsen

34 Abbot of Gan-den Shar-tsay

35 Abbot of Se-ra May (se ra smad)

36 Abbot of Drebung Go-mang, "Lo-sang"

37 HH Dudjom Rinpoche

38 HH the 16th Karmapa

39 HH the Sakya Trizin

40 HH the Dalai Lama

41 senior tutor Ling Rinpoche

42 junior tutor Trijang Rinpoche

43 Kirti Rinpoche, currently? working in HHDL Religious Affairs office; assistant to Kirti Tsen-shap Rinpoche

44 A-lak Jik-may Rinpoche

45 Kushok Bakula, who is sometimes called the head lama of Ladakh, at one time (currently) ambassador to Mongolia.

Namo Gurube _((🏔))_

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