Where was Cho Namchul born?
Cho Nam-chul
Cho was born in a farming village in Buan, North Jeolla Province. In 1934, Japanese professional Kitani Minoru visited Korea and played with ten-year-old Cho, who deeply impressed the great master. He went to Japan in 1937 to study go as Kitani's first "insei", or live-in student. In 1943, he returned to Korea and played a key role in the founding of the Hanguk Kiwon. It wasn't until 1983, that he would be awarded 9 dan, but for most of the 1950s and 1960s, he won the vast majority of national tournaments.
Namkhai Nyingpo
The present Namkhai Nyingpo is the seventh reincarnation in line residing at his main seat in Lhodrak Kharchu, Bumthang, Bhutan. He was born on March 10, 1966 in Tongzhang, Tashi Yangtse in eastern Bhutan. Rinpoche was recognized by the sixteenth Karmapa and was handed over to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to take care of him. Though many reincarnations were born, they came and left unrecognized since they hid themselves as hidden yogis. The fifth Dalai Lama was the one who recognized the first Namkhai Nyingpo reincarnation and from then on, the reincarnation line continues to take rebirth for the benefit of sentient beings.
Dargyay (1977, 1998: p. 33) discusses the particular generation stage cycle of the 'Eight Pronouncements' (Wylie: "bka'-brgyad") that Namkhai Nyingpo was 'empowered' (Wylie: "dbangs-bskur") to practice by Padmasambhava, and through the 'sadhana' (Wylie: "sgrub-sde") of which he realised siddhi: