Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel
Tibetan Lama
About Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel
Lived 1941 – 2011 (aged 69–70).
Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel (sometimes called Lama Lhundrup) was abbot of Kopan Monastery in Nepal. He was born in 1941 to a poor peasant family in Tibet, and joined Sera Monastery as a boy. In 1959 he fled from the Chinese invasion of Tibet and went to India.
On September 7, 2011, Lama Lhundrup died due to cancer.
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Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel was born in 1941.
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Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel died on 7 September 2011.
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