Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche

Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was born in the province of Amdo, which is in eastern Tibet, in 1926. At the age of six he was recognised as the reincarnation of the former abbot of Kirti Gompa. At the age of nine, he was ordained as a monk. RelicKirtiTR Rinpoche received teachings from many high lamas and is one of the lineage holders of the Kalachakra tantra, having received that empowerment when he was 14 years old. At 32, having completed his monastic studies, he was appointed the Abbot of Kirti Gompa.

After escaping from the Communist Chinese occupation of Tíbet in 1959, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche taught Tibetan orphans at the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, India.

At the age of 45 he began a 15 year meditation retreat in a small stone hermitage above Dharamsala.

Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche has given Kalachakra commentary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said of his teacher Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, “He is a great Kadampa master who shows the real Kadampa tradition... so completely renounced. There’s not one slightest worldly activity… no self cherishing thought. Even talking, everything is as much as possible pleasing to sentient beings’ minds.”

Rinpoche gave teachings in many countries in every continent around the world.

Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche passed away on 16 December 2006 in Delhi, India.

Relic and Source

Ash relics were offered by Venerable Rita Riniker who received them from a student who was present at Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche’s cremation in India.