Learn More In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a Buddhist yogi-scholar of eastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end.
The following memoriam by Alak Zenkar Rinpoche for Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is included in each volume of The Complete Nyingma Tradition.
The sublime master Lama Tharchin Rinpoche has departed for the realm of perfect peace.
Previously, he was responsible for a thorough proofreading of the edition of The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra published by the Sichuan People’s Press and he provided a detailed list of corrections of its typographical errors. Further, he intended to establish both a college and a retreat center based on The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra in the homeland of its author, Choying Tobden Dorje. To facilitate studies and experiential cultivation in meditation at those institutions, he oversaw the making of a new electronic version of this text from which a new edition was to be printed. Likewise, in order that The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra spread throughout the world, he planned for this work to be translated into both English and Chinese. For example, in the latter case, many years ago, he sponsored the great translator Lodrö Gyatso, a lord among scholars, to translate the outline and other sections of this work into Chinese. The impact of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s acts such as these, both completed and ongoing, concerning The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, is of the highest order.
In the midst of his activity in 2013, our merit was insufficient to restrain him and we suffered the loss of his departure to other realms. Nevertheless, his wife Péma Déchen, and Eric Colombel and his other disciples, are now fulfilling his inspired vision by having the entirety of The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra printed and distributed. I rejoice in this and offer my heartfelt thanks.
The humble Tübten Nyima [Zenkar Rinpoche] July 8, 2014