Ngawang Sungnyon Tulku

While at Samdup Norbu Ling Monastery Tulku Nawang Sungnyon did a 9 year Kalachakra retreat. During his first year of retreat he did 100,000,000 prostrations, and 100,000,000 mantras, and from his second to his ninth year he did a variety of Kalachakra yoga meditations and mantras for purification. He is a third lineage Tulku and in his previous incarnation was Talk Stone Gayest who was famous for writing and composing 15 Buddhist textbooks. His first incarnation was Talk Nyavan who was very popular for composing the Six perfection textbook of Buddhism.

In 1995 he left Tibet for India in order to study and do pilgrimage and lived for a few years at the Jonang Takten Phuntsok Choeling Tibetan Buddhist monastery Simla India. This monastery was founded in 1973 to maintain the Palchowk Kalachakra tradition, a practice unique to the Jonang sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Tulku Ngawang Songnyon studied the Kalachakra six yoga practices under Venerable Choekyi Ngapa, Abbot of the Jonang Monastery who is one of the eminent scholars of the Jonang tradition. During his few years there, He was appointed Secretary of the Monastery in India, as he said, "Due to H.H.The Buddha Maitreya's Blessings."

The tulku came to Nepal a few years ago and took refuge under H.H. Gyalwa Jampa Gonpo, The Buddha Maitreya. During this time he had many profound dreams which he will reveal to the public in time. For his future, Tulku Ngawang Songnyon worked hard to learn English under the blessing of H.H.Gyalwa Jampa Gonpo and utilized the free offering of English language classes to lamas that was provided by His Holiness at the Sanatan Dharma Center for so many years, so that he could eventually teach in the West and raise funds to help educate and feed the Monks of Jonang Takten Phuntsok Choeling. He has received monthly sponsorship from H. H. Gyalwa Jampa Gonpo, The Buddha Maitreya Rinpoche who he recognizes as his Teacher for many years. Tulku Ngawang Songyon explains that in his previous life he was one of H. H. Buddha Maitreya's best and closest students and prayed to see him again in this life, and that is how he has been able to find Buddha Maitreya again. He believes that His Holiness is a Bodhisattva who has attained Buddhahood and that all sentient beings benefit from his Teaching.

In January 2005, Sungnyon Tulku opened a Buddha Maitreya Dharma Center in Chengdu China. for H. H. Gyalwa Jampa. The start up cost was a donation from the Church of $6,000. There he will better be able to facilitate the work of H. H. Jetsun Gyalwa Jampa Gonpo, to oversee and facilitate communication and dispensation of his regular support to the area Monasteries i.e. three monasteries of Dzamthang, and the area of Lithang and Dema Monasteries at present.