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KHENCHEN THRANGU was born in Tibet in 1933. At the age of five, he was formally recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa and Tai Situpa as the ninth incarnation of the great Thrangu tulku. At twenty-seven, Thrangu Rinpoche was forced to flee to India. He was called to Rumtek monastery in Sikkim, where he was given the task of preserving the teachings of the Kagyu lineage. He was appointed by H.H. the Dalai Lama to be the personal tutor for the Seventeenth Karmapa and the four principal Karma Kagyu tulkus. Thrangu Rinpoche established the fundamental curriculum of the Karma Kagyu lineage taught at Rumtek and founded numerous monasteries and nunneries, schools for Tibetan children, and medical clinics. He has taught extensively throughout the world and is the abbot of Gampo Abbey.
The three songs here by greatly realized masters from three distinct Tibetan Buddhist traditions show that the famous 'three Great Ones'-Great Madhyamaka, the Great Seal, and the Great Perfection-all come down to the same essential point: the unmistaken realization of mind's true nature, just as it is. In their clarity and poetic beauty, these songs resemble brilliant ornaments crafted from the pure gold of our innate nature, while the Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche's lucid comments are like displaying these ornaments in the most conducive vitrines so that they can be viewed and appreciated from all kinds of different angles. These teachings are indispensable for all Buddhist practitioners in order to gain perfect clarity about the profound view of ultimate reality and how it informs our practice. -Karl Brunnhoelzl, translator of A Compendium of the Mahayana
