Background
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche was born in 1932 in the Derge region of Kham, Tibet.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche was born in 1932 in the Derge region of Kham, Tibet.
At the time of 1959 Tibetan uprising, when he was twenty-seven, under fire from the Chinese, he fled to India with 70 people, but only 5 arrived. In India, Rinpoche studied under the second Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje), Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and the sixteenth Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje). Some of Rinpoche"s students include Surya Das and Sogyal Rinpoche.