Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche - Dharma Master from Bhutan (1918-2003)

Rinpoche grew up in the pure lands of Bhutan. He came to learn meditation from his uncle Sherab Dorje Rinpoche, one the greatest masters of the time and region. His training consisted of intensive meditation retreats. There, in Milarepa’s and Guru Rinpoche’s caves, he and his uncle spent years in retreat. As related by one of Tsechu’s closest students, the retreat training he received from his uncle was solitary and strict. During those formative years, Rinpoche found the months passing by as they meditated, and they subsisted on a spoonful of water and powdered stone each day.

Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche’s activity covered the globe and his body exists in the form of seventeen stupas he inaugurated over the years. He helped build schools, bridges, orphanages and stupas. He was a great bodhisattva and his blessing greatly helped the spread of Diamond Way Karma Kagyu Buddhism in the West. Rinpoche was close to the 16th Karmapa, the 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje, immensely supported Shamarpa Rinpoche, Lama Ole Nydahl and Hannah Nydahl, thus great Karma Kagyu Buddhist activity and growth moved throughout Europe and the Americas in the late 1980’s to the present.

 

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