Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee

Having great altruistic motivation from early childhood, Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee entered Tana Monastery in Tibet in 1984. Drupon Rinpoche received teachings on the Fivefold Path of Mahamudra and Kunsang Lama’s Words of Profound Instruction, Dzogchen’s Great Completion Parting from Samsara and Nirvana, Pointing Out the Nature of Mind, and other teachings from Tulku Nyendrak Gyaltsen Rinpoche. Drupon has also received Chakrasamvara according to Drilbupa, including the empowerment, scriptural transmission, and pith instructions from Tulku Thogme Rinpoche.

Venerable Drupon Rinchen Dorjee joined the Drikung Kagyu Institute in 1993, and has received instruction in philosophy, Gongchig, Theckchen Tenying, Dhagpo Thargyan, and Uttaratantra from Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen and other profound teachers of the Lineage. In 1995 Drupon received full ordination vows from His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, and in the same year accomplished the ngondro practices to mahamudra and the grand mantra recitation of Chakrasamvara. In 1996, he received initiation into the Profound Path of the Six Yogas of Naropa. Drupon Rinchen Dorjee has completed two (2) three-year retreats, one at Almora and one at Lapchi, the holy retreat place of the great yogi, Jetsun Milarepa. He has received profound instructions too numerous to mention during these retreats.

In 2005, he received the five-deities Hevajra according to Marpa’s tradition of empowerment, transmission and instructions from His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, and in 2006 he completed the grand mantra recitation of glorious Hevajra’s fire puja at the Almora retreat center.

Drupon Rinchen Dorjee is now the retreat master for the 3 Year Retreat at the Garchen Buddhist Institute and gives teachings on Cakrasamvara and leads the Cakrasamvara Drupchen in the summer at the Institue. His main center is Chicago Ratna Shri.

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