page_title: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
section_title: Teaching
hierarchical_section_title: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche / Teaching
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Оргьен Джигме Рабсел Дава
context_page_description: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was a Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal. Urgyen Rinpoche was considered one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of his time.
context_section_description: Tulku Urgyen was the author of the two-volume As It Is, which deals with the subject of emptiness. His main transmissions were the Chokling Tersar and the pointing-out instruction.
  Buddhist teacher and writer Marcia Binder Schmidt wrote of him:
  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's special quality was to begin with the view rather than end with it; to train in devotion, compassion, and renunciation, perfecting the accumulations, and removing obscurations, all within the framework of the view. The practitioner was encouraged to see all these aspects of practice as the very expressions of the view itself.  That was Tulku Urgyen's unique style.
  Author and neuroscientist Sam Harris was a student of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Describing the Dzogchen instruction he received, Harris wrote:
  "The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could point out the nature of mind with precision and matter-of-factness of teaching a person how to thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator like me to recognize that consciousness is intrinsically free of self... I came to Tulku Urgyen yearning for the experience of self-transcendence, and in a few minutes he showed me I had no self to transcend... After a few minutes, Tulku Urgyen simply handed me the ability to cut through the illusion of the self directly, even in ordinary states of consciousness. This instruction was, without question, the most important thing I have ever been explicitly taught by another human being. It has given me a way to escape the usual tides of psychological suffering - fear, anger, shame - in an instant."
caption: Yangsi Urgyen Rinpoche
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