Ngawang Tenzin Rinpoche

His Holiness Ngawang Tenzin Rinpoche is a Bhutanese master in the Vajrayana Buddhism Drukpa Kagyu lineage. He is Drubthop Chenpo Jinpa Gyeltshen Rinpoche’s reincarnation, an 18th century high lama.

His Holiness began Buddhist study at age five. By age sixteen, he was a dance master, and had memorized all the sacred manadala designs and chants.

His Holiness has over twenty eight years in spiritual retreat, in which he has attained great realizations through studying Buddhist Sutras and with intensive and deep meditation practice.

Royal Government of Bhutan Appointments

* Tshenyen Lopen at age 45 with responsibility for all Bhutanese monk's education.
* H.H. Dorje Lopen Rinpoche at age 50 to oversee the Bhutanese Drukpa Kagyu lineage monasteries and monks. Only those who have achieved the highest meditative realization within Vajrayana Buddhism obtain this title.

References

* Wagner College Academic and Cultural Enrichment (assessed 2 August 2008) cite web |title=Holiness Ngawang Tenzin Rinpoche |url=http://www.wagner.edu/departments/ace/node/19
* http://www.sacredesignpdx.com/rinpoche_bio.htm