19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche

Buddhist lama March 2020 March 2020 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche His Holiness The 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, 1942.jpg 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche 21 May 1917 – 4 November 2003 Tibetan Buddhism 18th Bakula Rinpoche 20th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche y 1918 05 27 Royal Palace of Matho y 2003 11 04 1918 05 19 Saket, New Delhi Ngawang Lobzang Thupstan Chognorhttps://books.google.com/books?id=OSepAgAAQBAJ&q=Lobzang+Thupstan+Chognor&pg=PT92 Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual Nils Ole Bubandt Martijn Van Beek 12 March 2012 9781136668630http://www.reachladakh.com/news/social-news/tributes-paid-to-19th-kushok-bakula-rinpoche-on-99th-birth-anniversary Tributes paid to 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche on 99th Birth anniversary Reach Ladakh Bulletin 30 May 2016 (ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཐུབ་བསྟན་མཆོག་ནོར ngag dbang blo bzang thub bstan mchog nor), commonly known as 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche (19 May 1918 – 4 November 2003) was an Indian Buddhist lama, who also served as India's ambassador to Mongolia. He is mainly known for his efforts in reviving Buddhism in Mongolia and Russia by linking them with the community of Tibetan exiles in India. He was born in the Matho branch of the Royal House of Ladakh, India. He was the youngest child of his father, Nangwa Thayas, the King of Matho, and his wife, Princess Yeshes Wangmo of the Royal House of Zangla. He was recognised by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of Bakula Arhat,http://www.fpmt.org/Teachers/baktribute.asp Tribute to the Venerable Kushok Bakula Rinpoche FPMT 12 April 2018 one of the Sixteen Arhats who in legend were direct disciples of Gautama Buddha. He was a direct descendant of the last King of Ladakh Tsepel Tondup Namgyal. He was, in fact, his great-great-great grandson.February 2019Tondup Dawa https://www.reachladakh.com The History of the Political Ordeal of Ladakh Reach Ladakh Bulletin 6 November 2019The History of the Political Ordeal of LadakhTondup Dawa http://www.reachladakh.com/news/oped-page/the-history-of-the-political-ordeal-of-ladakh The History of the Political Ordeal of Ladakh 6 November 2019 Reach Ladakh Bulletin "In 1962 ... allowed the Indian troops to convert a section of his Pethub Monastery into a makeshift military hospital. When a section of people in Kashmir demanded plebiscite, Rinpoche categorically stated that Ladakh would never go to Pakistan and would remain with India."http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/architect-of-modern-ladakh/ Architect of Modern Ladakh Daily Excelsior 14 January 2018 12 April 2018 Later he served in the Parliament of India, and was deeply engaged with welfare, education and rights of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of India. From January 1990 to October 2000, he was India's Ambassador in Mongolia.https://eoi.gov.in/ulaanbaatar/?1043?000 Former Ambassadors Embassy of India Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 23 April 2018 He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1988. The airport at Leh in the Indian region of Ladakh is named after him. References Further reading Nawang Tsering Shakspo and Henry M. Vyner, M.D. (2006): Kushok Bakula Rinpoche — Saint and Statesman, World Buddhist Culture Trust, New Delhi Patrick Dowd, "The Nineteenth Bakula, Ngawang Lobzang Thubstan Choknor," Treasury of Lives, accessed February 04, 2021, http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Bakula-Ngawang-Lobzang-Thubstan-Choknor/13652 Category:1917 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Ladakhi people Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Ladakh Category:Lok Sabha members from Ladakh Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in public affairs Category:Ambassadors of India to Mongolia Category:Rinpoches Category:India MPs 1967–1970 Category:India MPs 1971–1977 Category:Lok Sabha members from Jammu and Kashmir Category:Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly Category:Jammu and Kashmir MLAs 1962–1967 Category:Jammu & Kashmir National Conference politicians