Ato Rinpoche 阿圖仁波切

Ato Rinpoche during a visit to Dzogchen Beara in 1999

Ato Rinpoche (b.1933), the nephew of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, is a master of both Mahamudra and Dzogchen. He was recognised by the Eleventh Tai Situ as the eighth incarnation of the Tenzin Tulkus. In 1959 after leaving Tibet for India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama placed him in charge of a monastery housing teachers of all four lineages. In 1976 he married and moved to Cambridge, England where he lives with his wife and daughter. He worked as a nurse at Fulbourn Psychiatric Hospital, Cambridge, until his retirement in 1981.

阿圖仁波切 (Ato Rinpoche) (1933年出生) 為頂果．欽哲．仁波切 (Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche) 的姪子(外甥)，是大手印 (Mahamudra) 和大圓滿(Dzogchen) 法教的上師。第十一世泰．錫度 (Tai Situ) 認證他為滇津．祖古 (Tenzin Tulkus) 的第八世。一九五九年離開西藏到印度後，達賴喇嘛尊者託付他管理一所駐有四大教派上師的寺院。他於一九七六年結婚並遷至英國劍橋，與夫人和女兒一起生活。仁波切在劍橋的富博恩 (Fulbourn) 精神科醫院擔任護士，直到一九八一年退休。

～中譯：Jane 2012.12.14

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