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Venerable Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche  

Commemorating The Passing of A Most Precious Guru

To mark the first anniversary of the passing of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, we have uploaded a new version of George Galt’s song in praise of this beloved teacher and Guru to our website. We encourage you to download this joyful celebration of Rinpoche’s extraordinary qualities and to use it as a way to re-connect with him. If you wish to receive teachings from Rinpoche’s reincarnation, this is one way to create the cause. As Rinpoche said himself, if you want to re-connect with a teacher from one lifetime to another, it’s important to be specific in your prayers. In Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche’s own words:

“..you should be praying along these lines: ‘I wish to meet this teacher again, as early as possible in life. I wish to be among the Guru’s first disciples. I wish to be present as soon as the Guru begins teaching again and I wish that I will remain connected to the Guru for a very long time.”

To listen to/download the song, simply click on the link below.

Work on Rinpoche’s relic stupa is nearing completion. Once the final details are completed, it will be taken to Dharamsala and Rinpoche’s remains will be deposited in the stupa.

Our thanks go to Voula Zarpani for keeping us updated and to George Galt for sharing this wonderful song with us.


Download the quick return song HERE


Some photos from Rinpoche's Relic Stupa:



  BIOGRAPHY

Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was born in the province of Amdo – eastern Tibet – in 1926, and at age six was recognized as the reincarnation of the former abbot of the Kirti Gompa. At the age of nine, He was ordained as a monk. Rinpoche received teachings from many high Lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Lama Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche is one of the holders of the tantra of Kalachakra lineage, having received that empowerment when he was 14 years old. At the age of 32 and having completed his monastic studies he was appointed as the Abbot of Kirti.

After escaping from Tíbet in 1959, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche taught Tibetan orphans at the Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala, India. At the age of 45 he began a fifteen-year meditation retreat in a small stone hermitage above Dharamsala, "big enough for a bed, prostrations, and a stove". He spent seven years in meditation on Lam Rim, three years on "Seven Point Thought Transformation", and some generation and completion stage tantra. Two years were spent only on generation and completion stages and in the final 3 years, Rinpoche repeated all of the above.

Rinpoche gave Kalachakra commentary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and was a teacher of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Lama Zopa Rinpoche said of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, "He is a great Kadampa master who shows real Kadampa Tradition...so completely renounced. There's not one slightest worldy activity, not the slightest eight world dharmas, no self cherishing thought. Even talking, everything is as much as possible pleasing to sentient being's minds."

Rinpoche gave teachings around the world in many countries including: Australia, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.

To download a copy of Rinpoche’s returning prayer, please go to the following address:

www.fpmt.org/teachers/kirti_tsenshab/pdf/ktrquickreturnprjan07.pdf