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Lama Khemsar Rinpoche is originally from Dromo, 'Pungmo Gon', Tibet. Lama Khemsar Rinpoche also presides over a monastery called Lhari Nyiphug, near Mount Jomo Lhari, near Phari, about 75 miles from Dromo. His monasteries have been visited by important figures including His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai Lama, and Sir Charles Bell, the then British Representative for Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim. Lama Khemsar Rinpoche is the 17th Lama of Pungmo Gon, the first being Zhu Namgyal Dragpa who founded the Monastery, and the Lama preceding Rinpoche was the late Lama Tenpa Gyatsho.
Rinpoche was first introduced to the Yungdrung Bon tradition at the age of five in Pungmo Gon's Spiritual School run by A-zhang Yungdrung Gyaltshen, who was also the head Lama of Sharmang Lhakhang, the sister monastery of Pungmo Gon. He then continued to receive teachings from many Great Masters who visited his Monastery, including Kharnei Gelong Rinpoche (who was responsible for training many of the practitioners at Pungmo Gon), Zhu Rizhing Lhasey, Geshe Sherab Namdak, Aa-dho Ponlob Rinpoche, and Ge-gen Tro-wo Kha. They came from faraway major Bonpo Monasteries in central Tibet such as Kyid-khar Rizhing, Rableg Yungdrung Ling, Khar-na and Tashi Menri Ling etc.
In 1959, along with many other Tibetans including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Khemsar Rinpoche had to escape to India. There he received the opportunity to go to a modern school and later joined hands with the rest of the Bonpo Lamas to rebuild the Bon Tradition at Dolanji in northern India, in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Here Rinpoche's main task was teaching Tibetan refugee children, whilst also getting the opportunity to receive traditional teachings from many prominent Lamas including the late Neljor Tsondru Gyaltshen Rinpoche (his Root Lama), His Holiness Gyalwa Menriwa Lungtog Tenpei Nyima Rinpoche, His Eminence Ponlob Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the late Yungdrung Ling Khencen Sherab Tenpei Gyaltsen, the late Horpa Ponlob Sang-gye Tenzin, the late Gelong Aa-chod and the late Kunzang Rinpoche. He also studied Buddhism under many Buddhist Lamas.
Rinpoche has received teachings covering Philosophy and Spiritual practices of Bon and Buddhism, Tibetan medicine, Ancient folk remedies, Healing Arts, grammar and poetry, Astrology and Astronomy, various types of ritual crafts,and authentic Jung-wei Trog-chod (Tibetan Feng Shui).
Having an open mind and an interest in all Spiritual Paths, Rinpoche hasexplored and studied many other faiths, including Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Through this approach, it soon became very evident to him that the lessons taught and the wisdom insights gained therein are, in essence, similar and compatible with those of his own Yungdrung Bon Tradition. With this realisation, he extends a warm welcome to all to attend his teachings, regardless of faith, creed, or gender etc, and stresses that, as common themes tend to run through all the Spiritual Paths, it is possible to use his Teachings to complement and enhance the teachings of other paths and vice versa.
Apart from Tibetan, Rinpoche also gives his Teachings in English, Hindi, Nepali, Sikkimese, and Bhutanese. He is the only resident Bonpo Lama teaching Yungdrung Bon in Europe.
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