# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akong-rinpoche
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:30:29.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akong-rinpoche"
name: "Akong Rinpoche"
slug: "akong-rinpoche"
description: "Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and co-founder of the Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, Tara Rokpa Therapy and charity ROKPA International."
tagline: "Spiritual master in Kagyu school, who brought tibetan buddhism in Europe (1940-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Akong_Tulku_Rinpoche.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-04-04"
deathDate: "2013-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.497806666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  168
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Akong Rinpoche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اكونج رينبوتشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E8%B4%A1%E4%BB%81%E6%B3%A2%E5%88%87"
    title: "阿贡仁波切"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akong_Rinpoche"
    title: "Akong Rinpoche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akong_Rinpoch%C3%A9"
    title: "Akong Rinpoché"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420512"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump