Background
Rinpoche was born in 1934 to a nomad family from Nangchen, Kham (eastern Tibet).
Rinpoche was born in 1934 to a nomad family from Nangchen, Kham (eastern Tibet).
He teaches widely in the West, often through songs of realization, his own as well as those composed by Milarepa (to whom he is often compared) and other masters of the past "Tsültrim Gyamtso" translates to English as "Ocean of Ethical Conduct". He left home at an early age to train with Lama Zopa Tarchin, who was to become his root guru.
After completing this early training, he lived the ascetic life of a yogi, wandering throughout Tibet and undertaking intensive, solitary retreats in caves and living in charnel grounds practicing Chödaughter
He subsequently went to northern India, where he spent the next nine years at the Buxa Duar Tibetan Refugee Camp. At the direction of the Karmapa, he subsequently settled in Bhutan, where he built a nunnery, retreat center, and school.
Along with Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Khenpo Rinpoche served as the principal teacher at the shedra (monastic college) at Rumtek Monastery, the seat of the Karmapa in exile. He also has taught extensively around the world over the last twenty years.
