Tsele Natsok Rangdrol

Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (Tib. རྩེ་ལེ་སྣ་ཚོགས་རང་གྲོལ་, Wyl. rtse le sna tshogs rang grol) (b. 1608) was an important teacher within the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

He born in 1608 near the border of the Tibetan provinces Kongpo and Dakpo. He was recognized as the immediate reincarnation of Tendzin Dorje (1535-1605?), and also as a reincarnation of Götsangpa, a great master of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage, an emanation of Milarepa. In his youth he studied with the Third Pawo Rinpoche and the famous tertön Jatsön Nyingpo as well as other great teachers of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche encouraged the study of his writings, believing they are particularly suited to beings of these times. Several of his works have been translated into English by Erik Pema Kunsang.

Works Translated into English

• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, The Heart of the Matter, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1996
• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Empowerment and the Path of Liberation, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1993
• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Lamp of Mahamudra, Shambhala, 1989
• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Mirror of Mindfulness, Shambhala, 1989
• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, The Circle of the Sun, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1990

Further Reading

• Yeshe Tsogyal, The Lotus Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2004 (includes a partial translation of Tsele Natsok Rangdrol's Replies to Questions Concerning the Biography of Padmasambhava, སློབ་དཔོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་པད་མའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཆེན་མོ་ལས་བརྩམ་ཏེ་དྲི་བའི་ལན་ངེས་དོན་གསལ་བྱེད་, slob dpon rin po che pad ma'i rnam thar chen mo las brtsam te dri ba'i lan nges don gsal byed)

External Links

• Tsele Natsok Rangdrol Series on Lotsawa House, Lotsawa House
• TBRC profile