Career
He also monastic communities of Nyagre Khangtsen of Gaden and of Ratö monastery. In 1959 Rinpoche left Lhasa together with the 14th Dalai Lama to Dharamsala into exile. From 1964 to 1966 he directed the Tibet House in New Delhi, an institute for the preservation and support of the Tibetan culture.
At the university"s invitation in 1966, he joined Bonn University, Germany, to work as a Tibetologist at its Institute for Central Asian Studies.
In 2004 he founded the Tibet House in Frankfurt, Germany.