We are most grateful that Kyabje Sharpa Choeje Rinpoche has offered to bestow the empowerment of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion. Receiving this empowerment enables the recipient to engage in the meditation of Avalokiteshvara for inner transformation. If you have not received an Avalokitesvhara empowerment or Highest Yoga Tantra empowerment in the past, receiving this empowerment is also a requirement for participating in the Nyung Ne retreat.

There is no fee for this empowerment, but a teacher offering is traditional and expected. Drepung Loseling is covering all expenses for Rinpoche and his attendant, including airfare, but the offerings you make are important and will go back with Rinpoche to assist his projects in India. Space will be limited. Please register by May 8.

Kyabje Sharpa Choeje Rinpoche is a foremost master of Buddhist contemplative theory and practice, and is currently third in line to the Ganden throne, the head position in the Geluk tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in the Kham region of eastern Tibet in 1936, Rinpoche entered Drepung Loseling Monastery in Lhasa for his training. In 1959 he followed His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile in India and continued his studies in the reestablished Drepung Loseling Monastery in south India, where he received the Geshe Lharam degree, the equivalent of a doctorate in philosophy and the highest degree of training in Tibetan Buddhism, in the late 1970s. He was then appointed Deputy Abbot and then Abbot of Gyuto Tantric College by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After completing his tenure as Abbot, Kyabje Sharpa Choeje Rinpoche now resides at Drepung Loseling Monastery, where he teaches and participates actively in the education of monks training for the Geshe degree. In the position of the Sharpa Choeje Rinpoche, he travels extensively around the world to attend conferences, teach on Tibetan Buddhism, and provide advice and guidance to groups and individuals in their spiritual practice and development.