Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche: March 29, 2012 Santa Rosa, California, Free Event

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Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche is the abbot of Mardo Tashi Choling* in Eastern Tibet where he established a retreat center. He created the shedra which is a formal Buddhist Monastic teaching, under the direct guidance of his teacher His Holiness Khenpo Jigmed Phuntsok Rinpoche. He directs the education and spiritual practice of 300 monks, seventy advanced-degree candidates, sixty children, and twenty full time retreatants. He is currently building a school for the children.

Rinpoche studied and practiced under his main root guru, His Holiness Khenpo Jigmed Phuntsok Rinpoche (known as the sole life force of the Buddha's teachings) for over twenty years. He also spent many years studying in Katog Gonpa under His Holiness Katog Moktsa Rinpoche in Tibet, as well as with His Holiness Penor Rinpoche for five years, in Namdroling Monastery in India. He was given a khenpo degree (equivalent to a PhD [in Buddhist philosophy]) in each of the three monasteries [note: Serthar, Katog Gonpa, and Namdroling].

H.H. Moktsa Rinpoche formally recognized Khentrul Rinpoche to be a reincarnation (tulku) of Katog Drubtobchhenpo Namkha Gyamtso,a mahasiddha of the Katog lineage. An elaborate enthronement ceremony for him took place in the mother monastery of Katog Gonpa in 2006 amongst an assembly of monks, lamas, khenpos, and laypersons. Thus, he is called Khentrul -- someone who is both a khenpo and a tulku.

He received the entire Nyingt'hig lineage (including Nyingt'hig Yabzhi, Dzod Dun, Ngalso Korsum, Yeshe Lama, and Chetzun Nyingt'hig), as well as thousands of empowerments, scriptural transmissions, and explanations on the pith instructions for Great Perfection practice. In addition, Khentrul Rinpoche received the rarely bestowed oral transmission of Khenpo Ngakchung's Nyingt'hig lineage. From Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, Dodrubchen Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, and Katok Moktza Rinpoche, he received all of the empowerments and scriptural transmissions for the Kama and Terma cycles of the Nyingma school.

He was invited to the United States by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche (shortly before his death) primarily to create and teach a shedra program at Rigdzin Ling. He created an annual shedra at Chagdud Rinpoche's Gonpa center at Rigdzin Ling in Junction City, California in 2003. The most recent Shedra in 2009 was on Shantedeva's "The Way of a Boddhisattva" where students in the West as far away as Hawaii attended.

As a well-respected teacher, he attracts thousands of students world wide. The first American practice center sprouted up in Ashland Oregon in 2003. He now has practice centers all across America. He created the Katog Choling Tibetan Cultural Center for Tibetan studies in Lafayette, Louisiana in 2004. He is currently building a retreat center in Arkansas to serve his students in the West.

Early Life At the age of seven he began the formal practice of the Dharma by taking monastic ordination as a supportive foundation. He left his home and family when he was a young child to go and live with his uncle at the monastery.


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