Drikung Kagyu Religious Society Introduction of the Retreat Masters The Most Venerable Drubwang Rinpoche Return to:

The Most Venerable Drubwang Rinpoche

The great accomplished practitioner Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche was born in Drikung, Tibet in 1921. He entered Drikung Thil Monastery at a very young age and studied Buddhist Philosophy at the Drikung Nyima Changra Buddhist Institute. After his graduation, Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche became the disciple of one of the foremost contemporary retreat masters of the Drikung Kagyu lineage - Drubwang Pachung Rinpoche (1901-1988). Under the guidance of Drubwang Pachung Rinpoche, Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche went on many years of retreat and eventually gained the supreme experiential understanding of Mahamudra. Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche is now eighty-one years of age and currently lives in the Drikung Kagyu Institute in northern India. In 1991, he overcame great difficulties and traveled all the way from India to Tibet. In India, he met with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama who requested him to travel to different places to give teachings for the benefit of all sentient beings. Drubwang Rinpoche's compassion and kindness is so vast that he often gives up everything he owns to the Sangha community. Some years ago, Drubwang Rinpoche forewarned that he would leave this world for the benefit of all sentient beings. It was because H.H. Dalai Lama's request that Drubwang Rinpoche agreed to stay on for a few more years. In September 1999, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote a long life prayer for Drubwang Rinpoche at the request of the His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, the Supreme Co-Head of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche does not give tantric empowerments or lofty teachings on Mahamudra, or on Dzogchen. He encourages and inspires people to do the simplest of all dharma practices: to extend kindness to all sentient beings and to do the practice of the three kayas by reciting: Om Ah Mi Dewa Hrih (Heart Mantra of Amitabha) Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hung (Heart Mantra of Chenrezig) Om Ah Vajra Guru Padma Siddi Hung (Heart Mantra of Padmasambhava) Return to:

May all mother sentient beings, boundless as the sky, have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May they be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May they never be separated from the happiness which is free from sorrow.
May they rest in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.

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