Akong Rinpoche, known formally as Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche, was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism who lived from 1939 to 2013. He was co-founder of the Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, of Tara Rokpa Therapy, and of the charity ROKPA International.
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1. Akong Rinpoche (Wikipedia)
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(Tibetan: ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, 25 December 1939-8 October 2013)
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Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, 25 December 1939-8 October 2013) was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and co-founder of the Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, Tara Rokpa Therapy and charity ROKPA International.
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was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and co-founder of the Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, Tara Rokpa Therapy and charity ROKPA International.
View the Source2. Akong Rinpoche, Structured Record (Wikidata Q420512)
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