Chagdud Gonpa is an international Nyingma Buddhist organization,
founded by <a href="http://www.tibetantreasures.com/tthtml/ctr2.htm">H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche</a>, who was a highly realized meditation master, artist
and Tibetan physician. Chagdud Rinpoche fled his native land in 1959. After coming to the
US in 1979, he founded Chagdud Gonpa Foundation. He attained parinirvana on November 17, 2002.