{"id":1480,"date":"2018-10-12T00:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hp-design.at\/palpung\/chamgon-kenting-tai-situ-rinpoche\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:48:53","slug":"chamgon-kenting-tai-situ-rinpoche","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/chamgon-kenting-tai-situ-rinpoche\/","title":{"rendered":"Guru Vajradhara H. H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-koconu4l-f546c8489c20ea14e3896551f5fe668f\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-koconu4l-f546c8489c20ea14e3896551f5fe668f{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-koconu4l-f546c8489c20ea14e3896551f5fe668f .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-koconu4l-f546c8489c20ea14e3896551f5fe668f .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-koconu4l-f546c8489c20ea14e3896551f5fe668f av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Guru Vajradhara H. H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jnxqlc7o-7ac0fce8db1672998aeba06314e7cea2 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"bodytext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18159\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Guru-Vajradhara-Chamgon-Kenting-Tai-Situ-Rinpoche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Guru-Vajradhara-Chamgon-Kenting-Tai-Situ-Rinpoche.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Guru-Vajradhara-Chamgon-Kenting-Tai-Situ-Rinpoche-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>The lineage of Guru Vajradhara H. H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa starts with the Bodhisattva <strong>Maitreya <\/strong>nine months before Siddharta Gautama&#8217;s birth when <strong><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/lineage\/buddha\/\">Buddha Shakyamuni<\/a><\/b><\/strong>, the Buddha of our time, crowned the Bodhisattva Maitreya in Tushita heaven to be his regent and become the future Buddha on earth after him. According to the sutras, Maitreya will become the future fifth Buddha in around 2 million years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Therefore, the lineage is older than 2600 years. The connection between the lineage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/lineage\/vajrayana\/karma-kagyu\/gyalwang-karmapa\/\"><strong>The Gyalwang Karmapa<\/strong><\/a> and Guru Vajradhara H. H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa is just as old, they have been appearing as Gyalwang Karmapa and Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa for 900 years.<\/p>\n<p>Guru Vajradhara H. H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa has throughout the centuries appeared as many realized masters, Indian and Tibetan Mahasiddhas. Amongst the most known are <b>Guru Rinpoche<\/b> who brought the Dharma from India and firmly established it in Tibet in the 8th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Further\u00a0 <strong>Lord<\/strong> <b>Marpa<\/b>, Lord of all Yogis who deeply rooted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/lineage\/vajrayana\/karma-kagyu\/\"><b>Kagyu <\/b><strong>lineage<\/strong><\/a> from India in Tibet. This is why Kagyu which reached us through this line of enlightened masters is actually called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/lineage\/vajrayana\/marpa-kagyu\/\"><b>Marpa Kagyu<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><b>Drogon R\u00e4chen<\/b> was the first incarnation referred to as the first Situpa, since the time of <strong>Guru Vajradhara H. H. 5th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, Ch\u00f6kyi Gyaltshen<\/strong>, having received the <strong>Red Crown<\/strong> from The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/lineage\/vajrayana\/karma-kagyu\/gyalwang-karmapa\/\"><strong>Gyalwang Karmapa<\/strong><\/a>, they have been known as <strong>The Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpas<\/strong>. You may read more about the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/chamgon-kenting-tai-situ-rinpoche\/the-12-palpung-chamgon-kenting-tai-situpas\/\"><strong> 12 incarnations of the Guru Vajradhara H. H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa <\/strong><\/a>here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><i>excerpted from <\/i><b>\u201c<\/b><a href=\"\/publications\/en\/produkt\/the-himalayas-and-beyond-karma-kagyu-buddhism-in-india-and-nepal\/\"><b>The Himalayas and Beyond<\/b><\/a><b>\u201c<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":1465,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guru Vajradhara H. H. 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