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Khyentse Norbu (Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoch) was born on 18 June, 1961 in Bhutan, is a Tibetan writer and filmmaker. Discover Khyentse Norbu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoch
Occupation Filmmaker, writer
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 18 June 1961
Birthday 18 June
Birthplace Bhutan
Nationality Bhutanese

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1820

The first incarnation was Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892), who helped found the Rimé movement, having non-sectarian approach to Tibetan Buddhism, centred in Dzongsar Monastery in Sichuan.

Followers of this non-sectarian movement sought to identify and make use of the best methods from the various long-competing and isolated schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

1880

This approach led to a blossoming of scholarship and writing from the 1880s onwards.

1893

The second incarnation was the renowned lama Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (1893–1959), who figured prominently in the export of Tantric Buddhism to the West as the root-teacher of a generation of influential and forward-thinking lamas.

A biographical portrait of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche exists in documentary feature film form.

1961

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (, born June 18, 1961), also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Tibetan/Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche was born in eastern Bhutan in 1961 at a place called Khenpajong.

At the age of seven he was recognized, by Sakya Trizin, as the third incarnation of the founder of Khyentse lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

1989

In 1989, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche founded Siddhartha's Intent, an international Buddhist association of non-profit centres, most of which are nationally registered societies and charities, with the principal intention of preserving the Buddhist teachings, as well as increasing an awareness and understanding of the many aspects of the Buddhist teaching beyond the limits of cultures and traditions.

While working with Tibetan refugees in northern India, Khyentse Norbu was struck by the absence of media attention to the abject suffering of thousands of children.

1993

In 1993, he founded the secular White Lotus Charitable Trust, dedicated to serving the most neglected and forgotten children through education.

Volunteering his own time and resources to establish the initial infrastructure, Khyentse Norbu inspired others around the world, regardless of spiritual traditions, to help White Lotus become a global volunteer network of like-minded humanists.

International followers of his work and his vision founded their own networks the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Hong Kong and Taiwan with a view to supporting LO programs in India and Cambodia.

Khyentse Norbu appeared in and, as a consultant "supervised every ritual and gesture performed by Tibetan monks," in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1993 film Little Buddha.

1999

His five major films are The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2003), Vara: A Blessing (2013), Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2017), and Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019).

Khyentse Norbu wrote and directed four award-winning films, The Cup (1999), for which The New York Times called him "a born filmmaker;" Travellers and Magicians (2003), the first feature film to be produced in Bhutan; Vara: A Blessing (2013), and Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait (2016).

2001

In 2001 Khyentse Foundation was founded by Dzongsar Khyentse.

It is a non-profit organization with the stated goal "to act as a system of patronage for institutions and individuals engaged in the practice and study of Buddha's wisdom and compassion."

2002

In 2002, Lotus Outreach was incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in southern California to create an American center of infrastructure, dedicated to ensuring the education, health and safety of at-risk and exploited women and children in India and Cambodia.

Its all-volunteer International board of directors continues to raise funds and increase awareness in their home countries on issues surrounding poverty and exploitation in Asia.

2003

The film came out in 2003, and is called Words of My Perfect Teacher, after the English rendering of a famed work by Patrul Rinpoche.

It is a portrait of the Vajrayana Buddhist student-teacher relationship.

Until the age of twelve Khyentse Norbu studied at the Palace Monastery of the King of Sikkim.

Reflecting the unusual non-sectarian tradition of the Khyentse lineage, he counts as his root-masters teachers from all four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism (cf. Sakya, Gelug, Nyingma, Kagyu).

He has studied with several influential contemporary masters, particularly Dilgo Khyentse.

After leaving Sikkim he studied at Sakya College in Rajpur, and later attended SOAS, University of London.

From a young age he has been active in the preservation of the Buddhist teaching, establishing centres of learning, supporting practitioners, publishing books and teaching all over the world.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche supervises his traditional seat of Dzongsar Monastery and its retreat centers in eastern Tibet, as well as his new colleges in India (in Bir and Chowntra (Himachal Pradesh)) and Bhutan.

He has also established centres in Australia, North America and the Far East.

2007

He is the author of What Makes You Not a Buddhist (2007) and many other non-fiction works about Tibetan Buddhism.

He is the eldest son of Thinley Norbu, and therefore the grandson of Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.

Rinpoche has teachers from all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and is a follower and champion of the Rimé (non-sectarian) movement.

He considers Dilgo Khyentse as his main guru.

He is also the primary custodian of the teachings of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.

2009

He appears in the 2009 documentary Tulku, where he discusses Buddhism and his views on the tulku phenomenon.

2013

Vara: The Blessing (2013) opened South Korea's famed Busan International Film Festival.

It was the first time that the South Korean festival has not opened with either a local Korean or a Chinese film.

2016

Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait, premiered at the Locarno Festival in 2016, and received an honourable mention from the Platform Prize jury at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie depicts a mysterious ritual in the forest where all participants are masked, was praised by critics for "its portrayal of complex Buddhist themes like transgression, by juxtaposing them on to modern topics like anonymity on the Internet.''

2019

His latest film, Looking for a Lady With Fangs and a Moustache (2019), tells the story of a skeptical entrepreneur seeking spiritual advice from an eccentric Buddhist monk who predicts the man's imminent death, unless he can locate an elusive lady with fangs.