Great Mahasiddha and Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö's root Guru

Great Mahasiddha and Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö's root Guru

Lama Lobsang Trinley

Lama Ngawang Lobsang Trinley, also known affectionately as Lama Lutrin or Kyabje Lama, was a highly realized Tibetan master born in 1917 in Mimdi village, nestled within the Zuka Valley of the Kham region in southeastern Tibet.

His family line was known as Achak Dri, and he was the beloved son of Kalsang Kyap and Yakshieza Tashikyi. From the very beginning, signs of his extraordinary nature were evident. The day after his birth, the great Zamngu Lama proclaimed with astonishment, “Longroma’s family has just had a child; this child is an extraordinary and highly realised being.” (‘Longroma’ was a nickname for his father, meaning “Short-Tempered.”)

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Khentrul Rinpoche’s Teachers

In Gratitude for All of Rinpoche’s Teachers The kindness of those who guide us to liberation is beyond measure. They teach the words of the Dharma, reveal their meaning, and lead us—step by step—toward direct recognition of our awakened nature. Khentrul Rinpoche offers heartfelt gratitude to the masters who have guided him in this lifetime. This list is offered in reverence and is not exhaustive—only a glimpse of the many teachers, and the living lineages they carried, whose compassion and wisdom he remembers with devotion.

Lama Kaldan

བླ་མ་སྐལ་ལྡན།

Lineage: unsure: Unsure

Associate: Unknown Monastery

Samar Lama Delo

ས་མར་བླ་མ་དེ་ལོ།

Lineage: unsure: Unsure

Associate: Unknown Monastery

Jetsun Lama Yonten Zangpo

རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་ཡོན་བརྟན་བཟང་པོ།

Lineage: Jonang

Associate: Dzamthang Tsangwa Monastery

Thanthan Lama

ཐན་

Lineage: unsure: Unsure

Associate: Unknown Monastery

Khenpo Jigme Phuntsog

མཁན་པོ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས

Lineage: unsure: Unsure

Associate: Unknown Monastery

Aku Gopo

སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨ་ཁུ་དགོད་པོ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Dzogchen

Associate: Denong Monastery

Aku Geko

ཨ་ཀུ་དགེ་ཁོ།

Lineage: Gelug

Associate: Kirti Monastery

Shugchong Khandroma

ཤུག་ཆུང་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Dzogchen

Associate: Shugchong Monastery

Tare Lhamo

མཁའ་འགྲོ། ཏ་རེ་ལྷ་མོ།

Lineage: Nyingma

Associate: Nyanlang Monastery

Lama Longtser

བླ་མ་ལོང་ཚེར།

Lineage: Sakya

Associate: Dewu Monastery

Akushabha

བླ་མ་བཤད་པ།

Lineage: Sakya

Associate: Raktsa Monastery

HH Jonang Kyabgon Chogtrul Jigme Dorje

HH Jonang Kyabgon Chogtrul Jigme Dorje

ཇོ་ནང་སྐྱབ་མགོན་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆོག

Lineage: Jonang

Associate: Dzamthang Tsangwa

Ngawang Lobsang Trinle, aka Lama Lutrin, Khentrul Jamphel Lodro Rinpoche's root teacher

Lama Lobsang Trinley

རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་བློ་བཟང་འཕྲིན་ལས།

Lineage: Jonang

Associate: Tashi Chöthang Monastery

Sagang Khenpo

Sagang Khenpo

Lineage: Sakya

Associate: Thubten Tashi Gephel Ling Monastery

Zankar Tulku Jampchup Dorje

Zankar Tulku Jampchup Dorje

གཟན་དཀར་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ།

Lineage: Kagyu

Associate: Yuthök Monastery

Lama Zharten

Lama Zharten

མཁན་པོ་ཤེས་སྟན

Lineage: Jonang

Associate: Doli Doka Monastery

Khenpo Phuntsok

Khenpo Phuntsok

མཁན་པོ་ཕུན་ཚོགས།

Lineage: Kagyu

Associate: Yuthök Monastery

Khenpo Jamser

Khenpo Jamser

མཁན་པོ་འཇམ་སེར།

Lineage: Kagyu

Associate: Yuthök Monastery

Dodrupchen Rinpoche

Dodrupchen Rinpoche

རྡོ་གྲུབ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཐུབ་པ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Dzogchen

Associate: Drupchen Monastery Tibet

Tulku Karma Sonam

Tulku Karma Sonam

སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཀརྨ་བསོད་ནམས།

Lineage: Kagyu

Associate: Yuthök Monastery

Mukyang Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim

Mukyang Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim

མུག་ཡང་མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།

Lineage: Nyingma - Dzogchen Nyingtik

Associate: Dongzang Monastery

Lama Kunkyam

Lama Kunkyam

བླ་མ་ཀུན་རྒྱམ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Kathok

Associate: Denong Monastery

Tulku Katag

Tulku Katag

ཀློ་བླ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཀ་དག

Lineage: Nyingma - Dzogchen Nyingtik

Associate: Denong Monastery

Khenpo Sangten

Khenpo Sangten

མཁན་པོ་སངས་རྟན།

Lineage: Nyingma - Palyul

Associate: Denong Monastery

Tawa Khenpo Jigme Namdrol

Tawa Khenpo Jigme Namdrol

རྟ་བ་བླ་མ་རྣམ་གྲོལ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Kathok

Associate: Tharthang

Lama Logyam

Lama Logyam

བློ་མ་བློ་རྒྱམ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Kathok

Associate: Denong Monastery

Khenpo Lotsul

Khenpo Lotsul

མཁན་པོ་བློ་ཚུལ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Palyul

Associate: Tharthang Monastery

Khenpo Öden

Khenpo Öden

མཁན་པོ་འོད་ལྡན།

Lineage: Nyingma - Palyul

Associate: Tharthang Monastery

Gyago Lama Ngaklu

Gyago Lama Ngaklu

རྒྱ་སྒོ་བླ་མ་ངག་བློས།

Lineage: Jonang

Associate: Jonang Shol Monastery

Khenpo Sherab Saljay

Khenpo Sherab Saljay

མཁན་ཆེན་ཤེས་རབ་གསལ་བྱེད།

Lineage: Jonang

Associate: Jamdha Monastery

Khenpo Jigten

Khenpo Jigten

Lineage: Nyingma - Palyul

Associate: Tharthang Monastery

Khenpo Arik Lothen

Khenpo Arik Lothen

མཁན་པོ་ཨ་ཁུ་བློ་བརྟན།

Lineage: Gelug

Associate: Kirti Monastery

Kyagya Longrik

Kyagya Longrik

དཀར་རྒྱ་ལུང་རིགས།

Lineage: Gelug

Associate: Kirti Monastery

Khenpo Aki Tamchösang

Khenpo Aki Tamchösang

མཁན་པོ་ཨ་ཁུ་ཐབས་མཁས་སང་།

Lineage: Gelug

Associate: Kirti Monastery

Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim

Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim

མཁན་པོ་བློ་བཟང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།

Lineage: Nyingma - Palyul

Associate: Tharthang Monastery

Tulku Lobsang Norbu Tharthang

Tulku Lobsang Norbu Tharthang

སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་བློ་བཟང་ནོར་བུ།

Lineage: Nyingma - Palyul

Associate: Tharthang Monastery

Marwan Tulku Jinpa Gyatso

Marwan Tulku Jinpa Gyatso

དམར་དབང་སྤྲུལ་སྦྱིན་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

Lineage: Gelug

Associate: Kirti Monastery

Aku Lodrö Gyamsto

Aku Lodrö Gyamsto

ཨ་ཁུ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

Lineage: Gelug

Associate: Kirti Monastery

Aku Jigyam from Kirti Monastery, Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö's teacher

Aku Jigyam

ཨ་ཁུ་འཇིགས་རྒྱམ།

Lineage: Gelug

Associate: Kirti Monastery

An Unbiased View

Khentrul Rinpoche Jamphel Lodrö is a rimé master. ‘Rimé’ means a ‘non-sectarian’ or ‘non-biased’ view. While some people may think this is related to the idea of all systems being equal, it is actually focused on recognizing the value and benefit of multiple points-of-view. Khentrul Rinpoche wrote a rime book titled “Ocean of Diversity” that includes all the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism as well as many of the religious traditions alive in our world today. We work to cultivate an unshakeable and genuine respect for pluralistic traditions seeing the value in all faiths. We are inclusive and welcome practitioners from all backgrounds.