Yeshe Lodoi Rinpoche
Yeshe Lodoi Rinpoche | |
|---|---|
ཡེ་ཤེས་བློ་གྲོས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ | |
| Born | 1943 |
| Died | 7 February 2025 (aged 81–82) Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Education | Drepung Monastery Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies |
| Occupation(s) | Lama Singer |
Yeshe Lodoi Rinpoche (Standard Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་བློ་གྲོས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; 1943 – 7 February 2025) was a Tibetan Buddhist lama and singer.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Litang County in 1943, Rinpoche joined a Gelug monastery at a young age. At the age of 13, he entered Drepung Monastery, where he stayed until the Tibetan exodus of 1959, settling in India.[2] Until 1969, he took refuge at Buxa Fort, having been ordained by the 14th Dalai Lama in 1963. From 1969 to 1971, he lived in Dharamsala and worked as chief librarian of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.[2] In 1972, he joined the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, where he obtained the degree of acharya.[2] His main spiritual masters included the Dalai Lama, Ling Rinpoche, Trijang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, and Khensur Ngawang Nyima Rinpoche.[2] In 1979, he obtained the Geshe degree at Drepung Monastery.[2]
In 1991, Rinpoche was sent to Mongolia to teach at Gandantegchinlen Monastery before sending him to Buryatia the following year.[3] He briefly returned to Mongolia before working to restore the monastic system back in Buryatia.[4] In December 1994, he consecrated several monasteries, including the Tamchinsky datsan. In 1997, he obtained Russian citizenship and moved to Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.[2] In 2002, a documentary titled Join me in Shambhala, directed by Anya Bernstein, was dedicated to him.[5][6] Thereafter, he was a full-time professor at Ivolginsky Datsan in Ulan-Ude.[2] In May 2009, he recorded Tibetan chants alongside Russian pianist Anton Batagov.[7] In 2018, he was invited by Erdne Ombadykow to Elista, the capital city of Kalmykia.[8]
Yeshe Lodoi Rinpoche died at Swayambhunath in Kathmandu on 7 February 2025.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Сегодня утром, в день Гуру Падмасамбхавы, ушёл великий учитель Еше Лодой Ринпоче". The Non-Silk Road (in Russian). 7 February 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g Vanchikova, Tsymzhit (January 2013). "Tibetans in Buryatia: new phenomenon in cultural diversity of the Republic". Buryat State University. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ Fagan, Geraldine (2 August 2005). "Russia: When will Dalai Lama next visit Tuva?". Forum 18. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ "Anda agenda 2002". Anda (in French). Archived from the original on 18 January 2008.
- ^ "Join Me in Shambhala". cinetrance.com. Archived from the original on 1 September 2003.
- ^ "Join Me In Shambhala". Documentary Educational Resources.
- ^ "Anton Batagov". Russian Association of Independent Genres.
- ^ Klasanova, Lyudmila (26 September 2018). "Venerable Yelo Rinpoche Visits Kalmykia". Buddhistdoor Global. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ "Ушел из жизни Еше Лодой Ринпоче Багша". Moskovskij Komsomolets (in Russian). 8 February 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2025.