Talk:Akong Rinpoche

message: * here the Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen is mentioned.
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.200.104 (talk) 19:01, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  But not Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen who was another much-loved emanation of the first Jamgon Kongtrul. I'll try and find a source for the Sechen tulkus. Rinpoche (talk)18:03, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  oh I see. It's true it does 'mention' the Sechen tulku but the main article in general is about Lodrö Chökyi Nyima one of two candidates fpr Jamgon Kongtrul IV. There's 25 emanations to be getting on with of the first Jamgon Kongtrul if you're asking. Rinpoche (talk) 18:36, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

text: I've found a reference to one Clive Holmes as co-author of 'Taming the Tiger' and have amended the reference accordingly  cf. http://www.cliveholmes.net/default.asp. Rinpoche (talk) 23:04, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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message: Please don't remove the reference to the Karmapa Controversy. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a polemic of religious tracts. Rinpoche (talk) 14:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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message: I regularly volunteer at Kagyu Samye Dzong London, a Tibetan Buddhist centre affiliated to the Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Scotland. This centre regularly hosts Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche (that is how they present his full title) as an invited teacher:
http://london.samye.org/london/kagyu/teachers/akong_rinpoche.shtml
There might be some merit in clarifying that although Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, Akong Rinpoche's brother, has taken over his duties as abbott of Kagyu Samye Ling, and now plays a more direct role in overseeing the activities of all the Kagyu Samye Dzong centres affiliated to it worlwide, Akong Rinpoche seems to be still very active in teaching and performing ceremonies in these centres (such as the empowerments that are considered necessary, in the Karma Kagyu lineage, before Buddhists can take up deity practices (sadhanas) such as Green Tara, Guru Rinpoche, Nyungney or Thousand-Armed Chenrezig). MrAgs (talk) 18:37, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: On-going teaching activities

message: I have checked in Trungpa's biography 'Born in Tibet' in which it describes how both Akong and Trungpa in their escape to India indeed had to boil and eat leather boots and bags to prevent starvation. This can be found on p.224 in the fourth edition. Therefore can the 'unreliable source'  be removed?
Fountain Posters (talk) 22:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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message: The article for Dolma Lhakang has been deleted; I can't find a deletion review - instead it was deleted unilaterally by an admin. Can anyone contribute some wikipedia-level references re: Dolma Lhakang; once we have these references, the page can be replaced (including the media that I have saved on my computer) with appropriate references to stop this happening again! Thank you :) Buckethed (talk) 06:02, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think Dolma Lhakang (i.e. Akong's temple - there is a famous monastery of that name near Lhasa) can be very notable. That's probably why it was deleted. Is that geolocation in the article really correct? I know the temple is being redeveloped, but in a different more accessible location. Out of curiosity some years ago I tracked down the original Dolma Lhakang on Google Maps from a private communication by a trekker who had made the trip. I don't recall it being the location given in the article. You could see a building and some cultivated fields beside it, unlike the location given in the article. Unfortunately I didn't keep a note of the location. This is a Flickr photo of the new site. From the same photographer this is the old site, which I can confirm from images I have seen elsewhere. If you'r feeling energetic you  might like to contact the photographer Sam Scoggins to see if he can provide geolocations. 109.153.80.183 (talk) 03:31, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  The geolocation is essentially correct, but it's too high up and should be about 500 mm to the west down the valley, where there is a settlement. Nevertheless the location is very remote, high above Qamdo. The original Akong was not a lama but a hermit. There were (and still are) are a very large number of these throughout Tibet. This one was especially respected by the local people and after he died a request was made to locate his reincarnation. Thus the late Akong Rinpoche was found. In the early days he was the attendant of Chogyam Rinpoche. After Chogyam came into conflict with the governing body of the Samye-Ling community at Eskdalemuir and relocated in the United States, Akong took an increasingly important role in the development of Samye Ling and by the early 1970s effectively oversaw all the Kagyu centres in Europe. It's not correct to say he brought Tibetan Buddhism to the UK, but that is not to denigrate his real significance. 103.27.221.253 (talk) 05:17, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Dolma Lhakang

message: Dear friends,
Akong Rinpoche is often referred to as Dr Akong Rinpoche, but I can't find in any of his biography that he actually studied at an university. Who can tell me where he obtained the title? Is it a honorific PHD? best yeshe  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yeshe108 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand it he qualified in traditional Tibetan medicine and was authorized to teach this by HH 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, no a Dr in the western sense.Billlion (talk) 16:54, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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replies: text: Since it seems that user is permanently blocked maybe we can all have a look at their edits  and review them for NPOV?Billlion (talk) 21:48, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
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