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Neten Chokling
Birth at
10 August 1973
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Neten Chokling Gyurme Dordje (1973-) was born in 1973 on the tenth day of the eighth month into a poor family in Wangdi Phodrang in Bhutan. was recognized by His Holiness the Karmapa and Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche. The Karmapa named him Gyurme Dorje.
At the age of seven he was taken to a monastery in Bire, and Kyentse Rinpoche enthroned him in the city of Clement, in the monastery of Ngedon Gatzal Ling. Before arriving at his monastery, he was enthroned in Rumtek by His Holiness the Karmapa. He received
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Neten Chokling Gyurme Dordje (1973-) was born in 1973 on the tenth day of the eighth month into a poor family in Wangdi Phodrang in Bhutan. was recognized by His Holiness the Karmapa and Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche. The Karmapa named him Gyurme Dorje.
At the age of seven he was taken to a monastery in Bire, and Kyentse Rinpoche enthroned him in the city of Clement, in the monastery of Ngedon Gatzal Ling. Before arriving at his monastery, he was enthroned in Rumtek by His Holiness the Karmapa. He received transmissions of Kangyur, Nyingma Gyubum, Nyingma Kama, Rinchen Terdzo and Chokling Tersar, as well as many other teachings from Kyentse Rinpoche. People say a lot about him, like he leaves footprints.
He is the spiritual leader of the Pema Evam Chogar Gyurme Ling Monastery in Bira in Himachal Pradesh in India. He became known to Western film audiences when he played a leading role in Dzongsar Khyentse's 1999 film The Cup. He also starred in the film Magicians and Wanderers (2004).
His own work is the film Milarepa, which he shot for several years and finished in 2006. This film has participated in several film festivals. Now Rinpoche is planning to shoot the second part of the film about Milarepa.
Rinpoche is a Nagpa practicing in the world. He has a beautiful wife Choyang and a young son Orgyen Jigme Rabsel Dava, whom in 2006 Trulshik Rinpoche recognized as the reincarnation of Tulku Urgen Rinpoche. In the autumn of 2008, he went to study at his monastery Ka-Ning Shedrub Ling in Kathmandu.