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ลำดับตอนที่ #10 : Lha-Tri Khenpo Nyima Dakpa Rimpoche

Lha-Tri Khenpo Nyima Dakpa Rimpoche

Rinpoche is the abbot and lineage holder of the Lha-Tri monastery in the Kham/Dege region of Eastern Tibet. He was born in Tibet in 1959 and grew up in Nepal at Dorpatan, the first refugee Bonpo community. His family is the lineage holder of the Lha-Tri lineage. His father, Lha-Tri Gyaltsen Nyima, was the third reincarnation of Tsultrim Phunstok, a great practitioner of Eastern Tibet.

When he was fifteen (1974) his father took him to the sMen-ri monastery at Dolanji, India (in the Himashal Pradesh region) so that he could become a monk there. It was during the Tibetan New Year, on the birthday of Nyam Sherab Gyaltsen that he took the vow to become a monk. From that day on he has been cared for and guided by H.H. the 33rd sMen-ri Trizin, the spiritual head of the Bön. He received my Geshe degree which equals a Western PhD in 1987.

After having received several letters from the people of the Lha-Tri monastery asking him to join them and help them educate the young monks of their monastery Rinpoche travelled to Tibet in 1987. There, in addition to visiting the Lha-Tri monastery, he also made a tour of thirty-eight other monasteries. The purpose of the visit was to enforce the connection between the monasteries in India and Tibet. Respectively his most important visits in Tibet were to the sMen-ri monastery as well as the Lha-Tri monastery, where he was enthroned as abbot.

In 1988 he returned to sMen-ri monastery at Dolanji. In April of the same year His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited the monastery and discussed the school system of Dolanji with H.H. the 33rd sMen-ri Trizin so that the children have an opportunity to study their original Bön culture. In 1988 he also founded the Home known today as the Bon Children’s Home (BCH). There boys and girls are brought up together. Here they find not only a place to receive an education but also a real home.

He has been the director of the Bon Children’s Home up to now. In May 1996 he was assigned by H.H. the 33rd sMen-ri Trizin to set up the Mongyal monastery at Dera Dun in India. Every year since 1991 he has travelled to the United States and various countries in Europe, for instance Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland, to spread the Teachings of Bön and raise funds for the Bon Children’s Home. Regularly Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche has returned to give Teachings at the Bön centres he has founded: Yeru Bon Centre in Los Angeles (USA), Shen Teng Ling in Minsk (BEL), Bon Shen Ling in Moscow (RU) and Shen Teng Ling Bon Centre in Vienna (A). The motivation to spread the Bonpo religion not only to the Tibetans who had to flee their native country but also to other parts of the world and the love and care for “my” children give him the strength to take up so many different tasks like teaching, organising, collecting funds, founding new schools, managing the Home, editing a magazine and travelling around the world and to go on with so many different projects.