Compassionate Action – The Teachings of Chatral Rinpoche. Chatral Rinpoche, the quintessential “occult yogi”, has been a legend in the Himalayan region for the last seventy years. Although he had never travelled to the West, his incredible story and teachings have gradually crept into the consciousness of Buddhists in the West since he met Father Thomas Merton in 1968 and famously acknowledged that “he is the most extraordinary man I have ever met”.