Shar Khentrul Rinpoché Jamphel Lodrö
Khentrul Rinpoché is a nonsectarian master of Tibetan Buddhism. He has devoted his life to a wide variety of spiritual practices, studying with more than twenty-five masters from all of the major Tibetan traditions. While he has genuine respect and appreciation for all spiritual systems, he has the greatest confidence and experience with his personal path of the Kalachakra tantra as taught in the Jonang-Shambhala tradition.
Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoché spent the first 20 years of his life herding yak and chanting mantras on the plateaus of Tibet. Inspired by the bodhisattvas, he left his family to study in a variety of monasteries under the guidance of over twenty-five masters in all the Tibetan buddhist traditions. Due to his non-sectarian approach, he earned himself the title of Rimé (unbiased) Master identified as the reincarnation of the famous Kalachakra Master Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. Khentrul Rinpoche is considered the 7th emanation of Bodhisattva Akasagarbha.
When he was chosen to be a teacher (khenpo) of the prestigious Tsangwa Monastery in Dzamthang, Rinpoche chose to renounce his position though in favor of dedicating himself to strict practice.
While at the core of his teachings is the recognition that there is great value in the diversity of all spiritual traditions found in this world; he focuses on the Jonang-Shambhala tradition. The Jonang lineage, thought to be extinct until recently by many Western scholars, he found held the most advanced teachings of Kalachakra (wheel of time) containing profound methods to harmonize our external environment with the inner world of body and enlightened mind.
Since 2014, he has travelled to more than thirty countries guiding students to realize their own sacred truth of limitless potential through a clear, systematic step-by-step presentation of the Kalachakra Path to enlightenment. By teaching people how to cultivate a flexible mind and remove bias, Khentrul Rinpoché aspires to create compassion-based communities, transforming this world into a golden age of global peace and harmony.
The Life Story of Khentrul Rinpoché Jamphel Lodrö
Khentrul Rinpoché is considered to be the third incarnation of the great Kalachakra adept Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. From his humble beginnings as a nomadic yak herder, Rinpoché’s life has exposed him to some truly extraordinary experiences. From his secret incarnation, through yak herding to his trip to the west, follow his timeline highlighting some of the key events which have helped shape the person he is today.
An Unbiased View
Khentrul Rinpoché 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.
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
ཇོ་ནང་སྐྱབ་མགོན་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆོག
Lineage : Jonang
Associate : Dzamthang Tsangwa
Lama Lobsang Trinley
རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་བློ་བཟང་འཕྲིན་ལས།
Lineage : Jonang
Associate : Tashi Chöthang Monastery
Sagang Khenpo
Lineage : Sakya
Associate : Thubten Tashi Gephel Ling Monastery
Zankar Tulku Jampchup Dorje
གཟན་དཀར་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Lineage : Kagyu
Associate : Yuthök Monastery
Lama Zharten
མཁན་པོ་ཤེས་སྟན
Lineage : Jonang
Associate : Doli Doka Monastery
Khenpo Phuntsok
མཁན་པོ་ཕུན་ཚོགས།
Lineage : Kagyu
Associate : Yuthök Monastery
Khenpo Jamser
མཁན་པོ་འཇམ་སེར།
Lineage : Kagyu
Associate : Yuthök Monastery
Dodrupchen Rinpoche
རྡོ་གྲུབ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཐུབ་པ།
Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen
Associate : Drupchen Monastery Tibet
Tulku Karma Sonam
སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཀརྨ་བསོད་ནམས།
Lineage : Kagyu
Associate : Yuthök Monastery
Mukyang Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim
མུག་ཡང་མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen Nyingtik
Associate : Dongzang Monastery
Lama Kunkyam
བླ་མ་ཀུན་རྒྱམ།
Lineage : Nyingma - Kathok
Associate : Denong Monastery
Tulku Katag
ཀློ་བླ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཀ་དག
Lineage : Nyingma - Dzogchen Nyingtik
Associate : Denong Monastery
Khenpo Sangten
མཁན་པོ་སངས་རྟན།
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Associate : Denong Monastery
Tawa Khenpo Jigme Namdrol
རྟ་བ་བླ་མ་རྣམ་གྲོལ།
Lineage : Nyingma - Kathok
Associate : Tharthang
Lama Logyam
བློ་མ་བློ་རྒྱམ།
Lineage : Nyingma - Kathok
Associate : Denong Monastery
Khenpo Lotsul
མཁན་པོ་བློ་ཚུལ།
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Associate : Tharthang Monastery
Khenpo Öden
མཁན་པོ་འོད་ལྡན།
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Associate : Tharthang Monastery
Gyago Lama Ngaklu
རྒྱ་སྒོ་བླ་མ་ངག་བློས།
Lineage : Jonang
Associate : Jonang Shol Monastery
Khenpo Sherab Saljay
མཁན་ཆེན་ཤེས་རབ་གསལ་བྱེད།
Lineage : Jonang
Associate : Jamdha Monastery
Khenpo Jigten
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Associate : Tharthang Monastery
Khenpo Arik Lothen
མཁན་པོ་ཨ་ཁུ་བློ་བརྟན།
Lineage : Gelug
Associate : Kirti Monastery
Kyagya Longrik
དཀར་རྒྱ་ལུང་རིགས།
Lineage : Gelug
Associate : Kirti Monastery
Khenpo Aki Tamchösang
མཁན་པོ་ཨ་ཁུ་ཐབས་མཁས་སང་།
Lineage : Gelug
Associate : Kirti Monastery
Khenpo Lobsang Tsultrim
མཁན་པོ་བློ་བཟང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Associate : Tharthang Monastery
Tulku Lobsang Norbu Tharthang
སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་བློ་བཟང་ནོར་བུ།
Lineage : Nyingma - Palyul
Associate : Tharthang Monastery
Marwan Tulku Jinpa Gyatso
དམར་དབང་སྤྲུལ་སྦྱིན་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Lineage : Gelug
Associate : Kirti Monastery
Aku Lodrö Gyamsto
ཨ་ཁུ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Lineage : Gelug
Associate : Kirti Monastery
Aku Jigyam
ཨ་ཁུ་འཇིགས་རྒྱམ།
Lineage : Gelug
Associate : Kirti Monastery
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A respected lay practitioner, known for integrity and devotion to the Dharma.
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A woman of quiet strength and faith, whose care nurtured the early life of the Rinpoche.
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