tulku
Noun
Meaning
tulku (plural tulkus)
In Tibetan Buddhism, a high-ranking lama who can choose the manner of his or her rebirth.
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His second Regent Demo Tulku was the biographer of the 8th and 9th Dalai Lamas and though the 9th died at the age of 9 his biography is as lengthy as those of many of the early Dalai Lamas.
Mullin 2001, p.87 Tsongkhapa largely modelled his new, reformed Gelugpa school on the Kadampa tradition and he also refrained from starting a tulku system.
Tib.: tulku, Wylie: sprul-ku Moreover, that even this is a distinctly Tibetan development is disputable.
It focuses on the attempted resurrection of the three Serpent Riders by the evil wizard Praevus, and takes place in a fifth continent, Tulku, featuring a Sino Tibetan setting.
Ringu Tulku (2005), p. 30. Dalai Lama (1992), p. 4, 42. In many drawings of the wheel, the snake and bird are shown as coming out of the mouth of the pig, indicating that aversion and attachment arise from ignorance.
Ringu Tulku states: :We create karma in three different ways, through actions that are positive, negative, or neutral.