Nubpa Rinpoche has
received all of the Drikung Protector initiations and transmissions
from H.E. Lho Drongtul Rinpoche. He has received all of the Fifty
Collections of Initiation, the Treasure of Kagyu Instructions, the
Treasure Discoverer Yangzab teaching (by Gyalwang Rinchen
Phuntsok), and the Yamantaka from Regent H.E. Tritsab Rinpoche, as
well as the Nyingma Collection of Initiations from the previous
H.E. Nyizong Tripa Rinpoche.
By 1959, Rinpoche had
mastered the Chinese language. By 1966, due to the political
changes in Tibet, he had learned the ways of the farmer. Returning
to Lhasa in 1974, he found work as a stone mason, but in 1979,
Rinpoche resumed his academic career as the editor of the magazine,
the "Tibetan Buddhist Association". In 1989, under the arrangement
of the 10th Pachen Lama, Rinpoche joined the Peking Buddhist
College of Higher Studies and there received his academic
degree.
Rinpoche always says
that his time spent learning about Buddhist teachings was very
precious, as were the oral transmissions he received from Pachung
Vajradhara, Khenchen Jigmey Phuntsok, and Gyendun Gyatso, among
others.
In 1992, he arrived in
India to serve His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Trinley Lhundub, his
root Guru, who was then working to preserve the Drikung Lineage.
While there, Rinpoche became the supervisor for the re-publications
of the 24th Drikung Throne Holder's, His Holiness Kunkhen Ringzen
Chodrak's (1595 to 1659), fifteen volume compendium of transcribed
oral instructions from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition {Kabum}.
Rinpoche has received many authentic teachings and oral
transmissions from those living and parinirvana masters.
Since that time,
Rinpoche has conducted retreats whenever possible in Labchi, the
holiest place of Yogi Jetsun Milarepa. These retreats involve an
arduous, week-long journey by foot. Rinpoche made one extended
retreat for more than three years and has since made four
additional journeys there.Today, due to Rinpoche's altruistic mind
of enlightenment, over thirty practitioners have gathered on
"conduct" retreats under his guidance in that holy place. As a
result of his loving kindness and compassion, there are plans to
build a monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal for the sake of all Dharma
practitioners.
