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Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche |
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Resident Teacher Rinpoche
Lama Kunga Thartse was born into a noble family in Lhasa in 1935, the
son of Tsipon Shuguba, Treasurer in the Dalai Lama's government.
At
the age of 7, he was recognized as a reincarnation of Sevan Repa, a
heart disciple of Milarepa, Tibet’s great 11th century poet-saint.
Rinpoche entered Ngor Monastery at eight and was ordained as a monk at
sixteen. In 1959, he was Vice-Abbot of Ngor Monastery, in the Sakya
Tradition, but fled Western Tibet with his countrymen at the time of
Chinese invasion.
In 1972 Rinpoche came to America and
established Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center in Kensington
California. Lama Kunga has also taught in New Jersey, Washington, D.C.,
Wisconsin, Oregon, Florida, Utah, Minnesota, and Arkansas. A skilled
and compassionate teacher, Lama Kunga Rinpoche’s students feel blessed
with his close relationship to the Buddha Dharma.
He also is licensed in California to perform marriages with a Tibetan Buddhist ceremony.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 January 2006 )
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Visiting Teacher His Holiness, Sakya Trizin, is the one of the world's
preeminent masters of Tibetan Buddhism, and is the supreme head of the Khon
Sakya lineage. Born in Tibet in 1945, His Holiness ascended to the throne of
Sakya at the young age of seven, when he was recognized by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama.
Trained since early age of the various teachings of sutra and
tantra, His Holiness is widely regarded as an emanation of Manjushri, the Buddha
of Wisdom. Presently residing in Mussoorie, Northern India, His Holiness travels
frequently around the world and is tireless in bestowing initiations and
teachings to a growing group of dedicated disciples.
His Holiness the
Sakya Trizin has established important centers of learning and monastic practice
in India and Nepal where the highly developed Sakya traditions of scholarship,
philosophy, and practice continue in exile. Among these are the Sakya Institute,
the Sakya College, and the Dzongsar Institute
His Holiness' personal website is:
http://www.hhthesakyatrizin.org/
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 September 2007 )
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H.E. Jetsun Kushok Chimey Luding |
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Visiting Teacher
 Born in 1938 as the sister of the current head of the Sakya
lineage, one of the four main sects of Tibetan Buddhism, she received much of
her training alongside her brother, His Holiness the Sakya Trizin, from such
legendary teachers as Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro. Devoting herself to
Buddhist practices from an early age, she completed her first retreat at age 10.
Many more important retreats like Hevajra, Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini were to
follow, enabling her to become one of fewer than a dozen masters who are
qualified to transmit the Lam Dre or "The Path that Includes the Results." Lam
Dre, like Dzogchen, Ziji Chod and Kalacakra Yogas, is among Tibet's "Eight
Chariots," or unique and complete systems of meditation practices leading to
Enlightenment. Jetsun Kushok gave her first transmission of the Lam Dre, along
with all the necessary empowerments, at age 17.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 December 2005 )
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