Biography of khentul Khorchak Rinpoche. Khentul Khorchak Rinpoche (also known as Tulku Kunga Chosang Lama) of Khorchak Monastery in Ngari of western Tibet was born in the year 1987. When reached the age of three, he mentioned a lot about his memories of his earlier incarnation to Lama Kunga Gyaltsen Rinpoche from Humla, to Jampal—the younger brother of his earlier incarnation, to Lama Rinchen—the disciple of his earlier incarnation and so forth. When Jampal heard that his brother’s reincarnation was born, he came to examine him. The boy recognized him at first sight, called him his little brother and asked about the possessions of his earlier incarnation, whereby he believed that this is unmistakably his reincarnation. Therefore it was recognized beyond dispute that he is the reincarnation of the renowned Lama Pasang Nyendrag. Furthermore, he told Lama Kunga Gyaltsen Rinpoche about the details of the possessions of his former incarnation and how he was mistreated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Thereby the lamas strongly believed that he is the one, and invited him to his own monastery, where they had him wore the lama hat and expressed their praises, saying that it is rare to find such an unmistaken incarnate lama. When he and his father were invited to Ngari, without asking anyone, he was able to recognize the house of Lama Rinchen, the disciple of his earlier incarnation—saying, “That is his house. This is the way,” and guided them towards the doorstep. When he went into the Lama Rinchen’s shrine room, he pointed towards the left and right rows of seats, saying to him, “I sat here, you sat here and we performed a ritual.” During that night, he cried loudly and asked Lama Rinchen, “Bring me my mandala!” Thereby, his father beat him but to no avail, and he cried till he fell asleep. In the next morning, Lama Rinchen arranged his offerings on his shrine, made three prostrations to the boy and offered him kata and a lot of sweet foods. He said to both his parents, “He is unmistakably the incarnation of my teacher Lama Pasang Nyendrag. This is because before his passing, I invited Lama Pasang Nyendrag over to my house and we made an offering ritual together. At that time, he also drew a Vajrayogini mandala and gave it to me.” “Here it is,” he said, putting it in the hands of the incarnate lama. The boy was very delighted, saying, “Oh, this is my mandala!” It was this and other accounts of the memories of his previous life that he recounted to anyone who asked him prior to his age of five, whereby the people recognized that he is unmistakably the reincarnation of Lama Pasang Nyendrag. He was invited many times to the house of his previous incarnation, where his accounts of his previous life became popular, and the Nepalese school’s researcher-scholar Naren Subedhi wrote an article on him in the Nepalese Labour magazine. His ancestor, Lama Pema Kundrol Gyalpo, was a main heart disciple of Kyabje Sertha Rinpoche, holder of the dharma transmission of Dudjom Lingpa. He spent his whole life in the mountains practising the Wrathful Goddess (Throema) of Dudjom Lingpa and is a great yogi of the Wrathful Goddess practice. He has had the experience of returning from a death experience. His son, Lama Pema Wangchuk (Pema Wanjan Lama)—the father of current incarnate lama too, after having received many vast and profound pith instructions from Kyabje Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and Sertha Rinpoche, stayed for twenty one years in retreat and focused single pointedly on the practice of the Wrathful Goddess of Dudjom Lingpa. Therefore, between his age of five and eight, the current incarnate lama recited after his father, the extensive, intermediate and concise liturgies of Dudjom Lingpa’s Wrathful Goddess. He accurately learned the ritual intonations and practices of Sertha Rinpoche’s dharma transmissions, was in turn able to take the tests from his father. In the year 2002, he was recognized again by His Holiness Sakya Trizin as the unmistaken incarnate lama and was given the name Ngawang Kunga Chosang. He studied under then twenty non-sectarian gurus, such as His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Kyabje Penor Rinpoche, Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, Luding Khenchen Rinpoche, Khenchen Appey Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche Kunga Wangchuk, Khen Rinpoche Sonam Gyatso and Khen Rinpoche Tsewang Rigzin. From them, he received teachings on Rinchen Terzod, Ngagyur Nyingma Kama, Northern Treasures, Compendium of Sadhanas, Sadhanas of the Garland of Jewels, Dudjom’s Wrathful Goddess, Karmapa Rangjung Dorje’s Collection of Chod Practices, Great Perfection (Dzogchen), Lamdre, Chod, Phowa, Tsalung & Thrulkhor, Indian astrology, Chinese astrology and so forth. In 2006, following the invitation from the Tibetan Office of Religion and Culture, he attended the sixth conference of the Tibetan high lamas. There, he gave a speech on the topic of upholding, preservation and spreading of Tibetan Buddhism in the future. He entered the Sakya College of Higher Buddhist Studies and studied the five major divisions of Buddhist scriptures. During his college studies, the Dalai Lama selected two lamas from each Tibetan tradition for a conference in 2007, and as he was among those lamas who were selected, he was invited to the Dalai Lamas residence. There he attended lectures particularly regarding the means by which Buddhism and science can work together in the future. He attended a conference entitled ‘Universe in a Single Atom’ together with the Dalai Lama and the scientists, where the scientists and leading scholars exchanged their views. Having been awarded the top student of his class many times in Sakya College, he graduated as acharya and taught both as a class teacher for several years. In 2012, as per an invitation from the Indian government, he went to Ladakh for a national conference on the Middle Way philosophy which was organized by the central Indian government and initiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The speech on the Middle Way view which he delivered was praised by the non-sectarian Buddhist scholars who were present there. During an enthronement ceremony in 2013, he was enthroned as a khenpo of the Sakya College of Higher Buddhist Studies by His Holiness Sakya Trizin, and he is currently teaching the Buddha dharma in this college.
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