His Eminence Jhado Rinpoche

Former Abbot of Namgyal Monastery Jhado Rinpoche, Tenzin Jungne, was born in 1954 to a nomadic family near Namtso Lake, some 220 kilometres north of Lhasa. At the age of three he was recognised and enthroned as the sixth incarnation of the abbot of Jhado Monastery. From 1992 to 1996 Rinpoche taught at Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala, the personal monastery of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 1997 he was appointed its Abbot, serving in that role until 2004. He is held to be one of the most highly esteemed Lamas in the Geluk lineage today, having received many oral transmissions and empowerments from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his two main tutors, and from great teachers of other traditions – among them the Nyingma masters Trulshik Rinpoche and Chogye Trichen Rinpoche.