Kirti tsenshab rinpoche biography samples

Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was born in the province of Amdo – eastern Tibet – in 1926, and at age six was recognized as the reincarnation of the former abbot of the Kirti Gompa, and ordained as a monk at age nine.

Rinpoche received teachings from many high lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and was one of the holders of the tantra of Kalachakra lineage, having received that empowerment when he was fourteen years old. At the age of 32, and having completed his monastic studies he was appointed as the Abbot of Kirti Gompa.

After escaping from Tíbet in 1959, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche taught Tibetan orphans at the Tibetan Children’s Village, Dharamsala, India.

At the age of 45, he began a fifteen-year meditation retreat in a small stone hermitage above Dharamsala, “big enough for a bed, prostrations, and a stove”. He spent the first seven years meditating on the lamrim, three years on the Seven-Point Thought Transformat