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Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel the 5th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche of Tibet died from COVID-19 in Verbania on 18 April 2020, aged 78.\r<\/p>

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He was a Tibetan-Italian lama of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.\r<\/p>

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The 5th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche was born in Drakshu, a small remote village which was about 55 kilometers from the city of Shigatse in 1941. His secular name was Wangdu Gyelpo. He was later recognized as the new incarnation Gangchen Sapen-la. He was enthroned at Gangchen Choepeling Monastery [it] at the age of five. When he was twelve years old, he received the \u201ckachen\u201d degree, Tashi Lhunpo’s equivalent of the \u201cgeshe\u201d degree. Later, he studied medicine, astrology, meditation, and philosophy in Sera Monastery and Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.\r<\/p>

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After the annexation of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China, Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche was imprisoned and forced to labor, before going into exile to India in 1963. He continued his studies for the following seven years at Varanasi Sanskrit University in Benares. He received the Geshe Rigram degree from Sera Monastic University in 1970. Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche took his first visit to Europe, before immigrating to Italy and taking up Italian citizenship in 1983. In 1989, he founded the Kunpen Lama Gangchen Institute in Milan, aiming to promote and preserve the Tibetan medicine tradition.\r<\/p>

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Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche was considered an important master of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition: he had adapted the teachings and techniques of meditation to the mentality of modern Western culture. He also practiced Vajrayana, he considered Dorje Shugden as one of several protectors of the Gelug school, and thus came into conflict with 14th Dalai Lama. Since the 1990s, he had visited China several times. He was well treated by the Chinese government, and according to Dalai Lama’s supporters, he was used as a tool for Chinese political propaganda against the Dalai Lama; Lama Tseta even accused him of “trying to murder Dalai Lama”.\r<\/p>

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