Lubum Tulku

The first incarnated Lubum Rinpoche was born in Rikon in Amdo Province of Tibet and had practiced the lineage of Nyingma Sect which is the old ways of Buddhist Tradition. Till the age of 28, Rinpoche's detailed whereabouts were not well known when he was admitted in the Lubum Khangtsen at Gadhen Monastery which was his traditional house from the Amdo Region. At Gadhen Lubum Khangtsen, Rinpoche was first ordained as a young monk by cutting the hair in the Central Compound. Since then, Lubum Rinpoche continued his studies and gradually excelled in all the Five Buddhist main volumes of philosophy and after many years he passed the Geshe Lharam Degree (highest of Buddhist Philosophy Doctorate) as well. Then Rinpoche later finished the Geshe Ngagram Degree (Tantric Doctorate) as well. Rinpoche later became the abbot of Ghaden Jangtse Dratsang and later lived as Ex-Abbot till the rightful age of 70 when the first Lubum Rinpoche passed away in peace. The second Lubum Rinpoche was born at Lhaedup Village near Ghaden in Tibet to Mr. Ngodup Tsering and Mrs. Kelsang Tsomo. The name of this village Lhaedup was derived from the person who was once a main donor and disciple to Je Tsong Khapa (founder of the Gelupa Sect). Lubum Rinpoche was recognised as a reincarnate an ordained as a monk and then looked after until the age of 5-6years old by the former Regent of Tsomon Ling At the age of 20, Lubum Rinpoche received higher monkhood initiation form Gyalwa Thupten Gyatso, H.H.The 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Lubum Rinpoche continued his students and gradually passed the highest doctorate Geshe Lharam at Gadhen Jangtse Dratsang in Tibet. In 1975, Lubum Rinpoche completed his doctorate of Geshe Ngagram Degree at Gadhen Jangtse Dratsang in Dhoegu Ling Tibetan Refugee Settlement in Southern India. Since then in 1979, Lubum Rinpoche was welcomed at Gadhen Jamgon Ling Swayambhu Kathmandu, Nepal and became the Abbot. in 1985, at the sight , a new monastery construction was undertaken and the monastery was renamed as Gadhen Jamgon Dhongna Shedup Thardoe Ling.

Lubum Tulku's previous incarnation met H. H. Gyalwa Jampa while both were doing kora at Swyambhu stupa in 1992. At that time he encountered the western tulku and stopped, kneeled down and prayed this prayer written below in Tibetan. At that time H. H. Gyalwa Jampa did not speak Tibetan or have an interpreter so he did not know what was being said. Soon after he left Kathmandu, H. H. The Buddha Maitreya began the work supporting Tibetans and Tibetan Monastic Life in Nepal, India and Tibet that the Church of Shambhala and the New Group of World Servers Charity are carrying on today.

In the International Dharshan Pilgrimage of 2003 to Kathmandu, Nepal the group visited Gaden Maitri Vihar and was invited for lunch. H. H. Gyalwa Jampa was taken to the top floor residence of Lubum Tulku and offered a beautiful statue and kada by Lubum Tulku. At that time, his teacher (pictured above) who was also his attendant in his last life, recognized the Western Tulku and remembered the instance of the Milarepa prayer. He then wrote it down and sent it to His Holiness.