Career
His students Drikung khandro,Khenpo Konchok Gyaltsen, lamkhen Gyalpo Rinpoche include the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Among several teachings that the Dalai Lama received from Khunu Rinpoche was the celebrated Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra of Shantideva. The Dalai Lama called him the “Shantideva of our time”.
His seminal work on bodhicitta was translated and published under the title of "Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta" by Wisdom Publications in 1999.
He died at Shashur Monastery in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh at the age of 82 on February 23, 1977.
