Career
Born in Tibet 9 years before the Chinese invasion of 1959 (see reunification of China), he was ordained as a monk at an early age. In the same year he flew with other monks to the South India and grew up in a monastery in exile, where he worked as an assistant teacher. In September 2012 he went to his silent retreat.
In 2013 Rinpoche published a book of his sermons under the title Snow Lion Faces Europe.
Rinpoche died in Saarbrücken, Germany, on 31 July 2014.
