Phendé Rinpoché
Phendé Rinpoché was born in 1934, in a family of practitioners tantric Ngapa, in the province of the Kham to the Tibet.
Biography of Phendé Rinpoché
Phendé Rinpoché was recognized like Tulkou (reincarnation) of Ngor Phendé Khen Tchen Djamyang Thubten Tcheu Tchi Djialtsen, whose line goes back to the Mahasiddha Indian Birwapa. He studied and learned all the texts from ritual near his uncle and tutor Ngawang Rintchen, chief teaching of the monastery of Tharlam. At the seven years age, he was established and accepted the teaching of Lamdré Loshé (the Way and its fruits). At the nine years age, he pronounced the wishes of achieved laic disciple, then the wishes of beginner; I carried out then several years of retirement and supplemented its teaching Sakyapa; it also followed studies of astrology. He studied several years with the monastery of Kyegu to Jyekundo.
Towards the end of the year 1950, because of the Chinese invasion, it decided to flee the Kham towards the India by making a great turning by the deserted extents of the Chang Thang (Northern of the Tibet), accompanied by a score of people of which his/her mother and her uncle. It met in way the group of Sakya Tridzin Rinpoché. They arrived at the same time (1959) at the Sikkim where it met also Khyentse Rinpoché Jamyang Choekyi Lodrö. It went then to Mussoorie where it often saw the Dalaï Lama. In India, it reconstituted with Kamrao the monastery of Kyegu with the monks in exile.
In 1969 it was invited in the Center of Samye Ling in Scotland. It met with Cambridge a young Frenchwoman who was going to become his wife and is established in France where it founded in 1974 the center of Ngor Ewam Phendé Ling in Normandy. It has three wire, which were recognized like Tulkous. It establishes thereafter two other centers in France, Ngor Ewam Kunsang Ling in Paris and Ngor Ewam Tcheu Ling in Poitiers.
It could restore its seat of the Phendé Ladrang in its monastery of Ngor Ewam Tcheu Den , with Manduwalla in India. It brings a regular help to this monastery thanks to association a Step Towards the Tibetans .