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Garchen Rinpoche
His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche (Tib. མགར་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl.mgar chen rin po che), aka Könchok Gyaltsen (Tib.
དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wyl. dkon mchog rgyal mtshan), the Eighth Garchen Rinpoche (b.
Garchen rinpoche biography
1936), is a Drikung Kagyü lama who was known in the thirteenth century as the siddha Gar Chödingpa, a heart disciple of Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön, founder of the Drikung Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. In ancient India, he had incarnated as mahasiddhaAryadeva, the lotus-born disciple of the great Nagarjuna.
In the seventh century, he was known as Lönpo Gar, the minister of the Tibetan Dharma King Songtsen Gampo.
Garchen Rinpoche was recognized and enthroned in eastern Tibet by the former Drikung Kyabgön, Shyiwé Lodrö[1].
When he was seven, he was brought to Lho Miyal Monastery, which he administered from the age of eleven. Studying and practising under the direction of the siddha Chime Dorje, Garchen Rinpoche received vast and profound instructions on