Chogyal Namkhai Norbu is the founder and guide of the Dzogchen Community. At his birth in 1938 at Derghe (Eastern Tibet), Chogyal Namkhai Norbu was recognized as the reincarnation of a great Dzogchen teacher. He studied with some of the most important masters of his time and completed the training required by Buddhist tradition in both Sutra and Tantra. At the age of sixteen he met master Rigdzin Changchub Dorje, who introduced him to the authentic knowledge of Dzogchen.

In 1960 he came to Italy at the invitation of Professor Giuseppe Tucci as a staff member of the Institute for Middle and Far Eastern Studies of Rome (today ISIAO). He was Professor of Tibetan and Mongolian Language and Literature from 1964 to 1992 at the Oriental Institute of the University of Naples. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu is recognized as a leading authority on Tibetan civilization, particularly in the fields of history, literature, and the medical and astrological sciences. He is widely known for his activities on behalf of the culture and people of Tibet.

In 1976 Chogyal Namkhai Norbu began to give Dzogchen instruction in the West, first in Italy, then in numerous other countries. He rapidly acquired spiritual authority among many practitioners, and created centers for the study of Dzogchen around the world.

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Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche (1965- ) [1]is a Buddhist meditation master and scholar from Dzogchen Monastery and Dzogchen Shri Singha Monastic University in [[Tibet].
He is a 33rd generation lineage holder of the Dzogchen lineage of Buddhism. He is recognized as the reincarnation of the great Buddhist scholar Gedun Chopel Rinpoche, who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the modernization of Tibetan Buddhism in the first part of the 20th century. He is a student of Khenchen Pema Tsewang Rinpoche, Khenpos Chatral Chochyab Rinpoche and Kunub Ozer Rinpoche and is a lineage holder of Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen Khadro Nyingthik and Longchen Nyingthik lineages.
He received the doctoral-level degree of Khenpo at the age of 22, an unprecedentedly young age in the almost 200-year history[2] of Dzogchen Shri Singha University. He was one of the first of a new generation of young scholars to emerge from Tibet following the formal revival of Buddhist education there in the 1980s. He is the author of over 30 Buddhist texts including the English language text The Buddha Path[3] and others. He has founded retreat centers in Nepal and India, and many Buddhist practice centers in Europe, the United States, and southeast Asia. He has taught in English in the West starting around 2002.
He is the current spiritual leader of the Dzogchen Shri Singha International organization, and many affiliated sanghas internationally.
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