Extremely Age-old Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Tulku, Karma Lodrö Lungrik Maway Senge (Tibetan: ཁ འག, Wylie: khra ‘gu) is a popular tulku (reincarnate lama) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.At the age of four he was officially acknowledged by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa and Eleventh Tai Situpa as the ninth version of the terrific Thrangu tulku, the abbot of Thrangu Monastery, whose root incReally Venerable Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Tulku, Karma Lodrö Lungrik Maway Senge (Tibetan: ཁ འག, Wylie: khra ‘gu) is a prominent tulku (reincarnate lama) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.At the age of 4 he was formally acknowledged by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa and Eleventh Tai Situpa as the ninth version of the terrific Thrangu tulku, the abbot of Thrangu Monastery, whose root incarnation was Shüpu Palgyi Sengé, among the twenty-five disciples of Expert Rinpoche. Required to get away to India in 1959, he went to Rumtek Abbey in Sikkim, where the Karmapa had his seat in exile. Thrangu Rinpoche then acted as the primary instructor of the four principal Karma Kagyü tulkus of that time– the four regents of the Karmapa (Shamar Rinpoche, Tai Situ Rinpoche, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, and Gyaltsab Rinpoche). In 1976 he started to teach in the West and ended up being the abbot of Gampo Abbey– a Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, Canada– in addition to take charge of the three-year retreat centre at Samyé Ling in Scotland.He is also the
author of the extensively studied The Practice of Tranquility and Insight, a commentary on the 8th chapter of Jamgön Kongtrul’s Treasury of Understanding, on shamatha and vipashyana.