A tulku (Tibetan སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wylie sprul sku, ZWPY Zhügu, also tülku, trulku) is an individual recognized as the "reincarnation" [human rebirth] of a previous spiritual master (lama), and expected to rearise in a particular location or region after death.
The tulku is a distinctive and significant aspect of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, embodying the concept of "enlightened beings" taking corporeal forms to continue the lineage of specific teachings.
The term "tulku" is a loanword from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་སྐུ (sprul sku), which originally referred to an emperor or ruler taking human form on Earth, signifying a divine incarnation.
Over time, it evolved within Tibetan Buddhism to denote the corporeal existence of certain highly accomplished Buddhist masters whose purpose was to ensure the preservation and transmission of a particular competing lineage.
The tulku system originated in Tibet, particularly associated with the recognition of the second Karmapa in the 13th century. Since then, numerous tulku lineages have been established, with each tulku having a distinctive role in preserving and propagating specific teachings.
Other high-profile examples of tulkus include the fourteen Dalai Lamas, the Panchen Lamas, the Samding Dorje Phagmos, Khyentses, the Zhabdrung Rinpoches, and the Kongtruls.
The process of recognizing tulkus involves a combination of traditional and supernatural methods. When a tulku passes away, a committee of senior lamas convenes to identify the reincarnation.
They may look for signs left by the departed tulku, consult psychic oracles, rely on dreams or visions, and sometimes even observe natural phenomena like rainbows. [Somewhere over the rainbow...]
This process combines mysticism and tradition to pinpoint the successor who will carry forward the teachings of their predecessor. More
The reincarnated Lama: The true story that defies logic
(Lei's Looking Glass) Nov. 27, 2025: Some stories challenge everything we think we know about life, death, and what comes after. Across Tibet and beyond, for over a thousand years, people have reported children who remember past lives, masters who choose their next rebirth, and signs that seem too specific to ignore. This episode explores one of the most astonishing cases in modern times — and the ancient system behind it. Whether you're skeptical or simply curious, this journey into reincarnation, destiny, and the mysteries of the human mind will stay with you long after the story ends. #reincarnation#leislookingglass
A spiritual leader in Nepal known as ‘Buddha Boy’ arrested on charges of rape and kidnapping
Freak Street shops, Kathmandu, Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A controversial Nepalese Buddhist spiritual leader known as “Buddha Boy” was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a minor and involvement in the disappearance of at least four of his followers from his camps, police said today.
Ram Bahadur Bamjan (aka Ram Bahadur Bomjon, Tapaswi Palden Dorje, Dorje Rinpoche) is believed by many Nepalese to be the reincarnation rebirth of Siddhartha Gautama a significant lama (tulku) reborn in Nepal, unlike the historical Buddha, who was born in southwestern Nepal Gandhara, Scythia (modern Afghanistan, Central Asia) some 2,600 years ago and became revered as the Buddha or the "Awakened One."
Remember was I was able to do as a kid?
The highest goal of Buddhism, as taught by the historical Shakyamuni Buddha Gautama is to make an end of all suffering and all rebirth, so it could never be that a supreme buddha, having entered final nirvana, could reemerge and be reborn. If that were so, Buddhism would make no sense as ultimate liberation from suffering. What does happen, however, is there are other buddhas. Ram Bahadur Bomjon was never a buddha of any kind but could be or have been a bodhisattva, a "being bent on supreme enlightenment," an aspiring "future buddha," Maitreya (a kind of Buddhist messiah). This is not the same being reborn but rather another person aspiring to be a supremely awakened teacher who establishes the Dharma in a world where it no longer exists. These are very rare beings, perhaps the rarest of all. Because of similarities to historical accounts of the Buddha (almost certainly mistaken popular conceptions) and Bomjon -- birth in Nepal, a mother named Maya, a innate penchant and ability to meditate, retiring to the forest, practicing under a tree, fasting, and his general appearance made the world sure this must be the same figure come again. Neither Bomjon nor anyone who understands Buddhism in more than a superficial way was claiming that, but that oversimplification is what set the world on fire that here was a great man, a great meditator, a great teacher to come. That never seems to have manifested. And if Bomjon was practicing the meditative absorptions of "right concentration stillness" (samma-samadhi), it is likely he lost them for lack of an experienced teacher to establish him in the foundational practice. The subsequent practice of developing liberating insight or vipassana would be missing, and he would gain no distinction in knowledge-and-vision (characteristic of the noble ones, the Ariyans) beyond mundane attainments of ordinary worldlings. So even if he had gained the magical powers (iddhi, siddhis, abhinna), with the power to sit still and not move, eat, drink, or breathe, that would not make him a Buddhist "saint" (arhat, arahant), even if the whole world worshiped him for his holiness, which is gained by suppressing all of the mental defilements by samadhi. The meditative absorptions impart temporary purity of heart/mind. But the defilements are still latent until they are uprooted by insight. Meditation is only a preliminary requirement. Practicing Dependent Origination (paticcasamuppada) is essential for breaking free. Many Indian gurus, Hindu saints, indeed gain mystical powers through samadhi and are reckoned "enlightened" in the Hindu scheme of things, but this is not the Buddhist way. This is not what the Buddha taught. And anyone who thinks he did -- such as some Mahayana and Vajrayana thinkers -- what reason would there have been for the Buddha to teach if the Vedas and the later development of the catchall "Indus-ism"(Hinduism as an organized religion formalized by Sri Shankara) were enough to gain moksha (final liberation, emancipation, salvation, deliverance from all rebirth and suffering)? He would not. Two buddhas do not arise at the same time, in accordance with the niyamas or regularities of dhamma as taught by the Buddha.]
Is Buddha Boy innocent? We hope so! If he is not, that's no surprise. One who develops and masters only samadhi -- stillness, coherence of mind, concentration, serenity, withdrawal -- is temporarily ahead but in great danger of falling back. Only the stream enterer, the first stage of enlightenment, assures one of final deliverance, but even this type of person is capable of anything other than the Five Heinous Crimes, terrible karma.
In accordance with the Ratana Sutta("Jewel Discourse"), a stream enterer or once returner might do anything of an immoral nature, but it will not entail an eight rebirth. The great thing about making it to stream entry is that, according to the Buddha, one has finally for the first time in all of samsara put a limit on suffering, made an end of all misery in no more than seven rebirths at the maximum.
An arhat or fully enlightened person, now established in virtue (sila) might still break some Monastic Disciplinary Code rules. Apparently, the ones even an arhat might break are listed as such. So it is, of course, not true that a stream enterer has "perfect morality" forever and ever. Maybe such a person does at that moment leading up to realization or just after realization. Maybe everything is clear, what is "path" and "non-path," how much further one has to go, what is fruitful to practice and what is useless. But, indeed, some of the defilements are still there, only weakened. As one evolves towards full enlightenment, arahantship, more and more of the fetters, defilements, and taints are abandoned for good. See The Path of Freedom for a description of the various kinds of stream enterers and once returners.
Of all the defilements that corrupt living beings here in the Sensual Sphere, it is sensuality, craving for five-strand sense pleasures. So it would be no surprise that lust overcame someone emerging from the previous practice of the meditative absorptions. Sexual desire and craving of all kinds reassert themselves; they have not yet been uprooted. LUST, Lust, lust
One needs to take great care not to overestimate one's achievements. An experienced teacher is essential. If only we could bring Buddha Boy to just such a teacher so he might realized any shortcomings before final emancipation.
Back up, everyone. Saint coming through. We finally got him. We always told him we would.
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Buddhist scholars have been skeptical of Bamjan’s claims.
Bamjan was arrested late Tuesday (1/9/24) from his house in a suburb of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, according to Nabaraj Adhikari of the Central Investigation Bureau.
Police brought paraded him before the media in handcuffs on Wednesday and said that he had tried to flee by jumping two floors from a window [of his home] when the officers arrived but was unsuccessful and was taken into custody.
Officials also displayed a stack of Nepalese banknotes they said was equivalent to $227,000 and other foreign currencies amounting to $23,000 seized from the house at the time of the arrest.
Bamjan is expected to be taken to a court in southern Nepal, where the alleged crimes occurred, to appear before a judge there.
Several dozen of his followers gathered later Wednesday outside the Central Investigation Bureau offices in Katmandu, where Bamjan was being held but were pushed back by riot police.
He'll recover from this ignominious predicament.
Bamjan, also known as "Buddha Boy," became famous in southern Nepal in 2005, when many believed he was able to meditate without moving for months while sitting beneath a tree with no food or water.
He has remained popular despite accusations of sexually and physically assaulting his followers.
His popularity has since declined, but he still maintains camps in southern Nepal, where thousands of his followers come to live and worship him or to visit.
Buddhism -- founded in proto-India (in what is now Bihar state, in and around ancient Magadha and Varanasi) around 500 BCE -- is considered the world’s fourth third-largest religious tradition [as long as a billion Chinese Buddhists are not listed as communist atheists as official CCP records list them] after Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Source
SLICE, 11/22/22; CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The childhood of a Tibetan grand lama | SLICE
(SLICE) DARJEELING, Nepal - Ratak Puntso seems like any other 2-year-old, but he has always been destined for an exceptional life. Recognized as thetulkuor reincarnation of the Vajrayana Buddhist Grand Master Kalu Rinpoche, Ratak is already inducted as a grand lama of Tibetan Buddhism.
He will spend his childhood without much contact with peers of his own age. Instead, he will be surrounded by monks, tutors, and servants who all take part in passing down the Tibetan [Bon/Buddhist] teaching as well as protecting the “precious” child.
Documentary: The Lama Child,
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A tulku (Tibetan སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, sprulsku, Zhügu, tülku, trulku) is a reborn ("reincarnated") custodian of a specific lineage of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism who is given empowerments and trained from a young age by students of his or her predecessor.
Any Vajrayana practitioner can be reborn as a tülku, if one fails to reach Buddhahood or a Pure Land in the bardo (intermediate plane) of dying, bardo of dharmata or bardo of becoming.
Valentine summarizes the shift in meaning of the word tülku:
"This term, [which] was originally used to describe the Buddha as a "magical
emanation" of enlightenment, is best translated as "incarnation" or
"steadfast incarnation" when used in the context of the tulku system to
describe patriarchs that reliably return to human form." More
The Buddhist concept of rebirth -- often poorly translated as "reincarnation" -- while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp.
UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows the four-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at the age of 84.
The 14th Dalai Lama, who himself is believed to be the same being reborn on Earth life after life to save or protect the people of Tibet, charges the deceased monk's devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master's reincarnation.
Tenzin sets off on this unforgettable quest on foot, mule, and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. Along the way Tenzin listens to stories about young children with special characteristics and performs rarely seen ritualistic tests designed to determine the likelihood of reincarnation.
He eventually presents the child he believes to be his reincarnated master to the Dalai Lama so he can make the final decision.
Stunningly shot, UNMISTAKEN CHILD is a beguiling, surprising, touching, and humorous experience.
Wisdom Quarterly; Prof. Bart Ehrman, "All Things Considered" (NPR.org)
According to the BBC Jesus became a Buddhist monk for a time in India (tslpl.org).
How insulting to even ask this question -- and to keep asking it! How many times does a legend have to be mentioned or cited before it becomes true?
No, Jesus Christ did not exist... at least not the one we know. But there was a historical character, documented in Tibetan texts kept at Hemis Gompa a Vajrayana Buddhist monastery in Ladakh, India.
These written records were found by the Russian scholar Nicolas Notovich and published only to upset the powers that be that would forever keep hidden spiritual links East and West.
Jesus who? This BBC 4 documentary examines the question "Did Jesus die?" It examines many aspects of the question until Minute 25, when a logical if surprising conclusion demonstrates that the Three Wise Men were Buddhist monks who sought out Jesus (a tulku or reincarnated lama) and came back for him at puberty. After being trained in a Buddhist monastery he spread the Buddhist philosophy, survived the crucifixion, and returned to Kashmir, Afghanistan, where he died (or ascended to heaven to be with Brahma YHVH) an old man at the age of 80, coincidentally the age of the historical Buddha when he passed into final nirvana. Some called Jesus "Maitreya" (Messiah?) the Buddha-to-come.
The astrotheological Pagan "Christ" (king) is the fabrication. Those Pagan elements are now to embroidered into the story of the world's most famous Nazarene/Palestinian/African (Egyptian) Middle Easterner.
Indian lore says the young traveling "Jesus" (Y'shua or "Zeus's son," son of Y'HWH, according to St. Constantine at the Council, which put together the Christian canon and made many, many popular texts concerning Jesus's life heretical texts to be burned).
He became a yogi, a saddhu, a Buddhist monk, after being a stonemason (not a carpenter) and an observant Jew who came to Kashmir, in frontier India, the land that still remembered the Buddha, who himself seems to have been born in the India of then which is now Afghanistan.
But this is too radical to contemplate for anyone who has not seen the prodigious evidence and scholarship. Here is a book by a vetted professor who passed muster with the knowledge filterers in the university system claiming to be an agnostic.
Jesus back from India looking like a long haired yogi and hippie radical (netglimse.com)
Did Jesus exist? Prof. Bart Ehrman, UNC, Chapel Hill So did Jesus really exist? With his new book, Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, Bart Ehrman, historian and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, wanted to provide solid historical evidence for the existence of Jesus [stripped of myth].
"I wanted to approach this question as an historian to see whether that's right or not," Ehrman tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
The answer is straightforward and widely accepted among scholars of all faiths, but Ehrman says there is a large contingent of people claiming that Jesus never did exist. These people are also known as mythicists.
"It was a surprise to me to see how influential these mythicists are," Ehrman says. "Historically, they've been significant and in the Soviet Union, in fact, the mythicist view was the dominant view. And even today, in some parts of the West -- in parts of Scandinavia -- it is a dominant view that Jesus never existed," he says.
Mythicists' arguments are fairly plausible, Ehrman says. According to them, Jesus was never mentioned in any Roman sources and there is no archeological evidence that Jesus ever existed. Even Christian sources are problematic – the Gospels come long after Jesus' death, written by people who never saw the man.
"Most importantly," he explains, "these mythicists point out that there are Pagan gods who were said to die and rise again and so the idea is that Jesus was made up as a Jewish god who died and rose again." LISTEN
Friday (April 6, 2012) brings the first full moon of the new spring season. The official moment that the moon turns full is 19:19 UT, or 3:19 pm EDT.
Traditionally, the April full moon is known as "the Pink Moon," supposedly as a tribute to the grass pink or wild ground phlox, considered one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring.
Other monikers include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon and, among coastal Native American tribes, the Full Fish Moon, for when the shad came upstream to spawn.
(Traditional names for the full moons of the year are found in some publications, such as the Farmers' Almanac. We also published the complete list of full moon names here on SPACE.com. More + Photos
Former Boston school boy, 11-year-old Jigme Wangchuck, whose new name is Galwa Lorepa, was discovered two years ago to be the reincarnation of Galwa Lorepa, the high priest and founder of one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Jigme claims to have realized his future destiny after a dream about his previous life. He will spend the next ten years studying at the Dali Monastery. His mother Dechen Martsa, father Choesang Martsa, and his sister Norzom Martsa moved from their US home to live nearby (link).
In 2009 an 11-year-old American schoolboy was anointed the head of a Buddhist sect in Darjeeling, India, as the reincarnation of a high-ranking lama who died more than 750 years ago.
Jigme Wangchuk, a 5th grade student of St Peter’s School in Boston, will be known as His Holiness (HH) the Second Galwa Lorepa, head of the Drukpa sect. The first Galwa Lorepa died in 1250 in Tibet.
The US-born Wangchuk -- now revered by hundred of thousands of followers in Nepal, Bhutan, and Ladakh (Buddhist India) as the rinpoche (high priest) of the Drukpa Sangag Choeling Monastery in Darjeeling -- told HT at the monastery:
“It’s a big transition. I do miss being a cheerful schoolboy. I miss my home, my grandparents, aunts and uncles. However, being a rinpoche is a great honor.” More
The tulku Jalue Dorjee, an American-born "Little Buddha" (m.startribune.com)
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minnesota - It's morning time, and a little [4-year-old] boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.
His high-pitched voice echoes inside the Columbia Heights bedroom that his father has transformed into a lavish prayer room. In here, the 4-year-old forsakes his cartoons and toys to study scripture and learn to pray the Buddhist way.
Big for his age, he looks bigger still perched on an ornate chair draped in crimson and saffron robes. "Only for lamas [gurus]," explains his father, Dorje Tsegyal, sitting cross-legged on the floor at his son's feet. Jalue Dorjee, you see, is believed to be no ordinary boy.
According to the highest authorities of the Tibetan Buddhist order, he is the reincarnation of the speech, mind, and body of a lama, or spiritual guru, who died in Switzerland six years ago. Jalue is said to be the eighth appearance of the original lama, born in 1655. His discovery in 2009 is considered an honor and a blessing for his working-class parents. But it comes with a hefty price.More plus VIDEO
Filmed over 20 years by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox (Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman), "My Reincarnation" chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi.
The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation or rebirth of a famous spiritual master (a tulku), breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world.
Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s threatened spiritual legacy alive? Never before has a high Tibetan master allowed such complete access to his private life, and it is doubtful that another ever will.
With her intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny.
This is an epic father-son drama spanning two decades and three generations. It is about Buddhism, cultural survival, identity, inheritance, family, growing old, growing up, faith, meditation, religion, magic, dreaming, spirituality, Dzogchen -- and past and future lives.
The film follows the renowned reincarnate Tibetan spiritual master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu as he struggles to save his spiritual tradition and his Italian-born son, Yeshi, who stubbornly refuses to follow in his father’s footsteps.More
John Garnaut (smh.com.au, Feb. 19, 2011) Gandan Monastery in Ulan Bator, Mongolia where an overwhelming amount of the country's population is Tibetan Buddhist yet few can read the scriptures (AFP).
A new start for a land where Buddha meets Louis Vuitton
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Weathered old folk in fur hats and goatskin gowns and young couples wearing designer sunglasses are squeezing into Gandan Monastery to lay money at the feet of a small and ornate statue of the Buddha. The room has the yak butter smell of monasteries in Lhasa, Tibet. But the scene is otherwise more natural, lively, and shambolic.
Going transsiberian by private train from Buddhist Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow.
Portly old monks in maroon robes are counting bundles of money, and child trainees [samaneras] are stifling yawns. They've been sitting and chanting all day and into the night for most of the two-week celebration for Mongolia's lunar new year.
I ask my friend what they are chanting about as he stops my coat from catching fire on the coal stove. ''I don't really know,'' he says. ''Actually, nobody does. [Because] it's all in Tibetan -- we just have to trust them.''
Ninety-eight per cent of the country's 2.7 million people count themselves as Tibetan Buddhists, thanks to ties that go back centuries. But only a few hundred trained monks can read the scriptures of their [Vajrayana] faith. My friend, a Mongolian neighbor from Beijing, has brought me here to pray for good health and fortune in between his meetings about national politics and personal uranium exploration. More>>
Did Jesus learn what he knew from India ? Where was Jesus and what was he doing from ages 12-30? What happened to him after Crucifixion? Why does the Bible leave out this important information?
Why are we Americans obsessed with football and football commercials? American football is stylized war, that's clear enough. So like the former British empire and their soccer obsession, which turned to indivdualistic cricket (like our baseball), we watch, we root, and come to expect that that's the way to resolve differences.
It is said that 51% of the ratings for the Super Bowl are accounted for by the commercials (and the half-time entertainment). Super Bowl ads are some of the most expensive on the boobtube -- because so many people are watching. And drunk. And mindlessly munching on acrylamides, MSG, and rancid trans fats. (You know, Lays, Pringles, Doritos).
I think our obsession stems from something I once saw on "Planet of the Apes." All empires keep people distracted with "the games," and you can't take that away from them. The all-important games!
Think Rome and the Coliseum.
Think Greece and the Olympics.
Think Maya and ball-through-ring/losers-sacrificed-for-losing.
It makes us competitive. It makes us singleminded. It makes us ruthless. But the Buddha advised we steer clear of the "teachings of the vicious." Instead, there's noninjury, helping, caring -- things we all love to receive but aren't so keen to give.
Better than all the celebrating on Super Bowl Sunday would be the bliss associated with a cleansed heart, a clear mind -- what we're trying to achieve with toxic booze (you know how many impurities are in there besides the alcohol?) -- focusing on the first absorption. We are what we eat and take in. Piti and sukha are "rapture and joy" unknown to couch potatoes. And it's why we sit. That reliable happiness, serenity, and energy leads to enlightenment.
Buddhist football obsession: The Cup (Phorpa) is a celebrated breakthrough film by Tibetan lama Khyentse Norbu. Prayer, meditation, rituals, soccer? World Cup soccer-fever sweeps into a remote Himalayan Buddhist monastery. Centuries-old traditions are threatened — the young novice-monks will do just about anything to watch the final match. This poses a unique challenge to the venerable lamas in charge. An inspiring tale of colliding cultures, midnight escapades, and daring secret plots. And it's a true story. Filmed on location at Chokling Monastery.
(BleacherReport) - In Buddhism there are the Four Truths. Mark and I were experiencing all four at the hands of Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and a roomful of Buddhists.
1. There is suffering. (Certainly, the Broncos and we were). 2. There is a cause for suffering. (In our case, it was the 49ers and these Buddhists). 3. There is a cessation of suffering. (The game couldn’t end fast enough!) 4. There is a way to the cessation of suffering. (We were thinking of leaving early).
Suddenly, in the middle of the game — I think it was 4:00 (time and therapy have washed away many aspects of this day) — every Buddhist in the room got up, went into another room, bowed down (to the West, I presume), and started chanting and banging a little gong. More>>
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