Akong Rinpoche

Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Akong Rinpoche at his 65th Birthday celebration in 2005
Personal life
Born
Shetrup Akong Tarap

(1939-12-25)25 December 1939
Dharak Village, Riwoche, Kham, Tibet
Died8 October 2013(2013-10-08) (aged 73)
Chengdu, China
NationalityBritish
OccupationLama & physician
Religious life
ReligionTibetan Buddhism
SchoolKagyu
LineageKarma Kagyu
Senior posting
Teacher
ReincarnationAkong Lama
Website

Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, 25 December 1939 8 October 2013) was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and co-founder of the Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, Tara Rokpa Therapy and charity ROKPA International.