Caring for these children and instilling in them an appreciation for their unique Bon heritage, gives me the remarkable motivation required to undertake so many different tasks for their benefit.
However, it is only with your support and donations that I will be able to provide the children with their basic everyday needs of water, food, clothing, and medicine.
If you are in anyway touched to help us here at BCH, your kind contribution will help insure a bright future for these children.
Thank you
Lha-Tri Niyma Dakpa Rinpoche
You may at any time write to my personal email nyidak@yahoo.com.
The BCH is an open organisation and is any time happy to welcome you at its guest house. If you wish to visit the BCH, please send an email to me.
Biography of Lha-Tri Khenpo Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche
My name is Lha-Tri Khenpo Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche. I am the abbot and lineage holder of the Lha-Tri monastery in the Kham region of Eastern Tibet.
I was born in Tibet in 1959 and grew up in Nepal at Dorpatan, the first refugee Bönpo community. My family is the lineage holder of the Lha-Tri lineage. My father, Lha-Tri Gyaltsen Nyima, was the third reincarnation of Tsultrim Phunstok, a great practitioner of Eastern Tibet. When I was six years old, I began to learn to read and write Tibetan and also started my religious studies. When I was thirteen I moved to Kathmandu (Nepal) with my family where I had to work in a sweat shop and learned the art of carpet design.
When I was eighteen (1977) - at a family gathering - my father talked about a message from Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche asking me to become a monk. Encouraged by my whole family I decided to return to sMen-ri monastery at Dolanji.
It was during the Tibetan New Year, on the birthday of Nyam Sherab Gyaltsen that I took the vow to become a monk. From that day on I have been cared for and guided by H.H. the 33rd sMen-ri Trizin, the spiritual head of the Bön.
In 1978 I was among the first students to enter the newly founded Bön Dialectic School, a monastery school that teaches philosophy (sutra, tantra and dzogchen), astrology, medicine and all other traditional Bön disciplines. In 1987 I received my Geshe degree which equals a Western PhD.
During the whole period of my studies and up to now I have been assisting His Holiness with the administration of the monastic centre as well as the school (CST) at Dolanji. I have had the honour of representing His Holiness the 33rd sMen-ri Trizin at meetings and conferences held away from Dolanji. In 1987 I even had the chance to travel for a longer period to Tibet and visit numerous monasteries to enforce the connection between the monasteries in India and Tibet.
In April 1988 His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited the monastery and agreed to a project to expand the school system of Dolanji with a 7th and 8th grade. He wished as many children as possible to be brought to Dolanji to be raised in the Bön culture.
In addition to the school project I was asked to set up a home for girls and boys at Dolanji. So in 1988 the Bon Children’s Home (BCH) was founded. There boys and girls are brought up together. Here they find not only a place to receive an education but also a real home. I have been the director of the Bon Children’s Home up to now. In the beginning there were 45 children. Today the number has grown up to 180 children between 5 and 20 years of age.
Every year since 1991 I have travelled to the United States and various countries in Europe to spread the Teachings of Bön and raise funds for the Bon Children’s Home.
The motivation to spread the Bönpo religion not only to the Tibetans but also to other parts of the world and the love and care for “my” children give me the remarkable strength to take up so many different tasks and to go on with so many different projects.
