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Our Precious Teachers

H.H. 14th Dalai Lama

Their Holinesses Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang (L) and Chungsang (R)

Khyunga Rinpoche


Garchen Rinpoche

 

Togden Rinpoche

 

Druwang Rinpoche

Khenchen Rinpoche 

 Drupon Samten - DKC Spiritual Director

Drikung Kyobpa Choling was founded in 1996 by Drupon Samten Rinpoche, under the guidance of His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsung. Drupon Samten Rinpoche was born in the Himalayan Mountains of Ladakh. At the age of six, he entered the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Lama Yuru, which was built in the 12th century and is where Naropa did many years of retreat. He studied with 13 accomplished teachers, learning Buddhist philosophy, ceremony, butter sculpture, painting, music, lama dance, healing, and astrology. Drupon was 22 when he went into a 3-year retreat as a student of a great meditation retreat master, Khyunga Rinpoche. Under the retreat master's guidance, Drupon completed the traditional Three Year Meditation Retreat and the Six Yogas of Naropa. In 1987, his Holiness Drikung Kyabgon sent him to the United States to teach at the Tibetan Meditation Center and he stayed with Khenchen Rinpoche there for many years. On January 20th, 2001, he was enthroned by His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang in India, in front of over 800 monks attending the Snake Year teachings at Jang Chubling Monastery, and received the title Drupon Samten Rinpoche, Vajra Meditation Master. Drupon Samten has been teaching in the United States, Taiwan, Malaysia and Chile since 1987. He has obtained a very good command of the English language. He teaches with clarity, compassion and wisdom, and is open to help everyone he meets.

 




Ani Chodron

 

 Ngakpa Wangdu began seriously studying Tibetan Buddhism in 1985 at the Tibetan Meditation Center in Washington, DC. Under Khenchen Rinpoche, he studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy, with special emphasis on the Jewel Ornament of Liberation. He developed a system for computer publishing bilingual Tibetan and English meditation texts. He has studied with Drupon Samten since he arrived in the USA in 1987.