Examples of using Tulkus in English and their translations into German
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Many tulkus in fact are not lamas.
The title Rinpoche, however,is not used exclusively for tulkus, or reincarnated lamas.
Tulkus, however, still join at a tender age.
Another common use of the word lama is in reference to reincarnate lamas, tulkus.
Tulkus receive private tuition when they are young;
Strict discipline has traditionally prevented most tulkus from becoming spoiled.
Tulkus are lines of reincarnate lamas, great practitioners who direct their rebirths.
That's not to say that they aren't really tulkus or that they don't have all these positive potentials.
Moreover, as signs of respect,many disciples call their spiritual mentors"Rinpoche," even if the teachers are neither tulkus nor abbots or abbesses.
On the other hand, child tulkus have always had, and continue to have, better food and clothing than everyone else.
Discovered as children to be the reincarnations of previous tantric masters, tulkus stand at the peak of Tibetan society.
They often consult tulkus and other great masters for a mo(prognostication) about important matters in their lives, usually made by tossing three dice while invoking one or another Buddha-figure.
People had enormous faith and treated their local tulkus reverentially with highly elaborate protocol.
Just a few words about how tulkus are found. Those who are on very, very high levels can actually predict where they're going to be reborn and give an indication- like the Karmapas leave a letter.
It was in Rumtek that Lama Jigme Rinpoche,along with all the regents and important tulkus, received the full transmissions directly from the Karmapa.
He stated the year of the tulkus birth as the Monkey year, that there were wondrous signs acompanying the birth, and said that if one were to search in the eastern direction, but not very far from Benchen monastery, the rebirth would surely be found.
The heads of the non-Gelug traditions are either specific tulkus(reincarnate lamas) or, in the case of Sakya, members of a specific clan.
I had already connected with Geshe Wangyal in New Jersey while learning Tibetan at Harvard and, once in India, I had turned to help from Sharpa and Khamlung Rinpoches,two young reincarnate lamas(tulkus) who had studied English in America under Geshe Wangyal's guidance.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama says theonly definite thing you can say about these tulkus is that they are children who are born with a tremendous amount of positive potential from their previous life.
The teachings are wonderful, but I really feel now there aresigns that there are lamas spiritual masters or tulkus reincarnate lamas or teachers whose quality has degenerated.
Again, there are about one thousand recognized incarnate lamas, or tulkus, and they are identified through various indications that they themselves give as well as by other indications such as oracles or significant signs in the environment.
All of this inspired me to make four 10-minute Dharma videos by piecing together excerpts of clips I found on the internet- with thewish that it might birth a connection between the Hopi Elders and the Tibetan Tulkus such as Garchen Rinpoche who operate a teaching temple near the Hopi Reservation in Flagstaff, AZ.
What is being sought is to stop reincarnating or,in the case of the bodhisattavas and tulkus of Tibetan Buddhism, do it with complete lucidity, for the benefit of those who suffer, having already achieved a status that transcends the duality nirvana-samsara.
It has been extensively renovated since 1981 and now houses about 700 monks,including three tulkus- one of whom returned from Switzerland and established a girls' school.
If we're not already a Buddha,we basically need three things in order to generate a line of tulkus i.e. reincarnate lama number one, then the next life, the next life, the next life, etc.