Ösel Tendzin
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Not to be confused with Tenzin Ösel Hita.
Ösel Tendzin (Tibetan: འོད་གསལ་བསྟན་འཛིན་, Wylie: ‘od gsal bstan ‘dzin), born Thomas Frederick Rich Jr. (June 28, 1943 – August 25, 1990), was an American Buddhist. He was the principal student of Chögyam Trungpa. On August 22, 1976, Trungpa empowered Tendzin as his Vajra Regent and first Western lineage holder in the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism.[1] On August 25, 1990, Tendzin died of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco, California, aged 47.[2] His wife, Lila Rich, and a group of his students continue to live in Ojai, California.
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