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Khyongla Rato, also known as Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, Rato Khyongla Rinpoche, Khyongla Rinpoche, and also as Nawang Losang, his monk's name, is a scholar and teacher in the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in what was then the Kham region of Tibet and was recognized as an incarnate lama at an early age. He spent over 30 years of his life as a monk studying in the monasteries of Tibet and receiving teachings from many highly qualified lamas. In 1959, after the Chinese communists took over, Khyongla Rato left Tibet, crossing the Himalayas to India. Eventually he came to Europe and then the US, and in 1968 he starting living in New York City. In 1975 he founded The Tibet Center, a center for the study of Buddhism. For more than 30 years he was the director and main teacher at the Tibet Center, teaching primarily in English. As of 2014, he still teaches at The Tibet Center whenever his schedule permits. In 1977 Khyonlga Rato's autobiography, ''My Life and Lives'', was published. In 1993 he appeared in the Bertolucci film, ''Little Buddha''. In 2014 he appeared in a documentary film about one of his students Nicholas Vreeland, ''Monk with a Camera''. ==Name and history== Khyongla Rinpoche is considered to be the 10th incarnation of a lama (the first Khyongla) who was born in 1510, and who as a child was known as Jigme; later in life he became widely known for his teaching of the dharma, and then people started calling him the "Lama from Khyong Yul" or "Khyongla". The name Rato is a reference to Rato Monastery, aka Rato Dratsang, where Khyongla Rato studied. The current Khyongla Rinpoche was born in 1923, in a small village called Ophor, south of Chamdo in the Kham region of what was then Tibet. At the age of five, Norbu, as he was then known, was recognized as an incarnate lama, and on his 6th birthday he was taken to his ''labrang'' (a lama's residence).〔tibetanhistory-20thcentury, Columbia University website, "My Life and Lives; Story of a Tibetan Incarnation", Khyongla Rato, by Erin Marino, October 26, 2009 () accessed 2014-5-31〕 He became a monk and studied at Rato Monastery, later moving to Drepung Monastery, where he received his ''Lharampa Geshe'' degree (equivalent to Doctor of Divinity), and finally to Gyuto Tantric University, where he served as abbot. In 1958, the 14th Dalai Lama was taking the examinations for his Lharampa Geshe degree. Khyongla Rato was asked to be one of two scholars who, during Monlam, would represent Rato Monastery as debating challengers in the Dalai Lama's final examination at the Jokhang. Altogether there were eighty challengers from ten monasteries. As Khyongla Rato says in his autobiography, on page 233, when it was his turn to debate, "For half an hour our thrilling interchange continued until the senior tutor, my good friend Ling Rinpoche, raised his hand and I returned to my place, exceedingly joyful and relieved."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khyongla Rato」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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