Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Taiwanese buddhist lama
Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1965
Place of Birth: Taipei
Date of Death: 04-Sep-2019
Profession: model
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
- Tsem Tulku Rinpoche (24 October 1965 – 4 September 2019) was a recognised tulku, an incarnate lama of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, and the founder and spiritual guide of Kechara House Buddhist Association with its headquarters in Malaysia.
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- Tsem Tulku Rinpoche was born on 24 October 1965 in Taiwan to a Tibetan father and Mongolian mother, and was adopted by an American-Mongolian family.
- His adoptive name was Burcha Bugayeff.
- In 1987, at the age of 22, Tsem Tulku Rinpoche received full ordination from the 14th Dalai Lama and became a monk of Ganden Shartse Monastery in India.
- Starting in 1992 Tsem Tulku Rinpoche has lived in Malaysia where he commenced work on the establishment of Dharma Institutes.
- One of the institutes he founded is known as Kechara House Buddhist Association.
- He also founded a charity organization known as Kechara Soup Kitchen and the dharma retreat centre Kechara Forest Retreat.
- In the meantime, Tsem Tulku Rinpoche took a stand against the position of the Central Tibetan Administration in the Dorje Shugden controversy and built the world's largest Dorje Shugden statue.
- Tsem Tulku Rinpoche strongly supported the Dorje Shugden religious practice , prohibited in 1996 by the Central Tibetan Administration, and was a critical voice advocating for the separation of politics and religion which is a feature of Tibetan Buddhism.
- He was known for his advice against the self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China.
- For his dissenting opinions, he was marked as a controversial Buddhist teacher although Tsem Tulku Rinpoche simultaneously advocated devotion for both the 14th Dalai Lama and the Dorje Shugden religious practice. Tsem Tulku died on 4 September 2019 after a long illness.
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