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Lopon Tanzin Namdag Rinpoche

Lopon Tanzin Namdag Rinpoche

Lopon Tenzin Namdag Rinpoche.

Lopon Tenzin Namdag was born in Tibet Kham, place name Khyungpo. He traveled to Menri Monastery study followed bon school and became Geshe. All Bon monasteries who has a debating center, it has a chief tutor call dPon-slob. First founded the debating center by Yongzin Sagye Tenzin at Menri monastery in Tibet. Following the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Menri and most of the other important Bön monasteries were destroyed. After 1959 several Bonpo lamas fled to India and Nepal, including Lopon Tenzin Namdak. He taught in Menri Monastery in North India and later moved to Nepal and he founded Triten Norbutse monastery in Nepal Kathmandu.