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{{Infobox religious biography
|name = Khandro Rinpoche<br />{{bo-textonly|མཁའ་འགྲོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ}}
|image= Khandro Rinpoche.jpg
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|birth_name = Tsering Paldrön
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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|08|19}}
|birth_place = [[Kalimpong]], [[India]]
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|nationality = Indian
|religion = [[Tibetan Buddhism]]
|school = [[Kagyu]]<br />[[Nyingma]]
|lineage =
|title = Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche
|location =
|education = St. Joseph's Convent, Wynberg Allen, and St. Mary's Convent
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|reincarnation of = [[Urgyen Tsomo]]
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|website = {{URL|khandrorinpoche.org}}
}}

'''Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro [[Rinpoche]]''' (birth name '''Tsering Paldrön'''; born August 19, 1967) is a [[lama]] in [[Tibetan Buddhism]]. Born in [[Kalimpong]], [[India]] and the daughter of the late [[Mindrolling Trichen]], Khandro Rinpoche was recognized by [[Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa]] at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Great [[Dakini]] of [[Tsurphu Monastery]], [[Urgyen Tsomo]], who was one of the most well-known female masters of her time.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.khandrorinpoche.org/jetsun-khandro-rinpoche/biography/|title=Biography of Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche|author=Dharmashri Publications}}</ref> Khandro Urgyen Tsomo was the consort to [[Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama]] (1871–1922) and recognised in this Buddhist tradition as an incarnation of [[Yeshe Tsogyal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dharmafellowship.org/library/essays/women-buddhas.htm#khandro|title=Dharma Fellowship: Library - Women Buddhas: A Short List of Female Saints, Teachers and Practitioners in Tibetan Buddhism}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.khandrorinpoche.org/jetsun-khandro-rinpoche/lineage/|title=Spiritual Lineage|author=Dharmashri Publications}}</ref> Her name is in fact her title, ''Khandro'' being Tibetan for [[dakini]] and [[rinpoche]] an honorific usually reserved for [[tulku]]s that means "precious one."

==Upbringing, training and role==
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche is a teacher in both the [[Kagyu]] and [[Nyingma]] schools. She speaks fluent English, [[Standard Tibetan]], and [[Hindi]] and has completed a Western education at St. Joseph's Convent, [[Wynberg Allen School]], Mussoorie, and St. Mary's Convent, both in India. She has taught in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia since 1987. She has established and heads the Samten Tse Retreat Center <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindrolling.org/samtentse/default.cfm|title=Samten Tse Retreat Center, India|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515235951/http://www.mindrolling.org/samtentse/default.cfm|archive-date=2008-05-15}}</ref> in [[Mussoorie]], India, and she is also resident teacher at Lotus Garden Retreat Center in Virginia, USA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lotusgardens.org/|title=MINDROLLING LOTUS GARDEN}}</ref> She is also actively involved with the administration of the [[Mindrolling Monastery]] in [[Dehradun]], India.<ref name="bio"/> Additionally, she is interested in [[interfaith dialogue]] and currently sits on the Board of World Religious Leaders for the [[Elijah Interfaith Institute]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elijah-interfaith.org/?id=729|title=Home – ELIJAH INTERFAITH|work=ELIJAH INTERFAITH}}</ref>

According to [[Judith Simmer-Brown]]:{{quote|Rinpoche has always been careful not to cast herself as a [[feminism|feminist]] in the Western sense. One could think that she has been careful in this way for political reasons, but I think it’s more than that. I think she understands something very deep about her Western students: we need to go more deeply, [[egolessness|egoless]]ly, into our own gender issues so as not to be ensnared by [[gender]]. Then we could embrace our gender and act without the kind of confusion and resentment that usually haunts us. I really learned that from her.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Deitch Rohrer|first=Trish|date=July 2004|title=Khandro Rinpoche's Tough Love|journal=Shambhala Sun|publisher=Shambhala Publications|url=https://www.lionsroar.com/khandro-rinpoches-tough-love/|access-date=2008-11-27}}</ref>}}

==See also==
*[[Urgyen Tsomo]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
*''This Precious Life: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on the Path to Enlightenment'', Shambhala Publications (2003), {{ISBN|1-59030-174-9}}

==Other Texts online==
*[http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1832&Itemid=244 Compassion and Wisdom] by Venerable Khandro Rinpoche
*[http://www.thubtenchodron.org/BuddhistNunsMonasticLife/LifeAsAWesternBuddhistNun/living_the_dharma.html Living the Dharma] by Khandro Rinpoche

==External links==
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*[http://www.khandrorinpoche.org Official website for Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516000000/http://www.mindrolling.org/history/femaleMasters/default.cfm History Female Masters Within the Mindrolling Tradition]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118224635/http://lotusgardens.org/mindrollinghistory/index.cfm The History of Mindrolling]
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00431gj/The_Interview_05_09_2009_Khandro_Rinpoche/ BBC interview]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xvAZKfMzE/ YouTube interview with Khandro Rinpoche (Flash video)]
*[http://www.samtentse.es Official website for Study Groups in Spain]

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