Influential Buddhist Teacher Tulku Thondup Dies at Age 84

Tulku Thondup, one of the most influential and revered Tibetan Buddhist teachers in the West, has died. Born in Golok, Eastern Tibet, Tulku Thondup was recognized as the reincarnation of Khenpo Khonch Dronme, a distinguished scholar from Drodupchen Monastery. After being forced to flee Tibet in 1958, Tulku Thondup settled in India, where he taught Tibetan and Tibetan Literature at Lucknow University and Visva Bharati University before coming to the United States to teach at Harvard University as a visiting scholar.