Lama Khemsar Rinpoche

The 17th Lama Khymsar Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of the The Tibetan Yungdrung Bön Study Centre United Kingdom, The Tibetan Yungdrung Bon Institute Miami FL, USA and Kunzhi-Ling Ticino, Switzerland with its affiliated Group in Italy. In UK, TYBSC is a Charity, Scottish Charity No.SC023439; In Switzerland, Kunzhi-Ling is a registered organization; and in USA, TYBI is a non-profit 501C(3) organization under federal law.

The Lama is an eminent Buddhist teacher of the Yungdrung Bön (The Ancient Native Buddhism of Tibet originated from Zhang Zhung Shambala). He is renowned for his lively teaching style and sparkling wit. Rinpoche has been teaching in the West for almost 20 years. He and his elder brother Lama Sonam G. Khymsar are the lineage holders of their two monasteries – Pungmo Gon and Lhari Nyiphug - both of which were founded by Master Zhu Namgyal Drakpa. The family monasteries have been visited by many visitors including Their Holinesses the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas and Sir Charles Bell (the then British envoy who became a friend of Tshampa Yungdrung Wangyal the then Head Lama of Pungmo Gon). Sir Charles Bell, during one of his visits, granted Pungmo Gon monastery with a free ration permit for essential commodities such as sugar, white flour and fabrics sent from Kalimpong, Darjeeling district, which were then under British rule.

Lama Khymsar Rinpoche received his spiritual training at Dolanji, India, under the tutelage of many prominent masters including his root Lama the Neljor Tsondru Gyaltsen Rinpoche, Yungdrung Ling Khencen Sherab Tenpei Gyaltsen Rinpoche, Horpa Ponlob Sang-gye Tenzin Rinpoche, Ponlob Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, Ghelong Aam-chhod and Kunszang Rinpoche and latterly, with Menri Trizin Lungtog Tenpei Nyima Rinpoche.
In addition to various short retreats, he also completed in 1987, the long traditional Three Year Retreat, under the guidance of Lama Tenpa Gyatsho who later died in Bhutan in 1998. Lama Tenpa Gyatso was the 16th Lama Tri-pa of Pungmo Gon Monastery. During this period, he also studied Buddhism under several Buddhist Lamas including Gheshe Lobsang Tharchin, Samdhong Tulku Rinpoche and Chamchen Rinpoche etc. He explored many other faiths too including Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In doing so, he discovered that the lessons taught and the wisdom insights gained therein are, in essence, similar and compatible with his own Yungdrung Bön Tradition. He thus extends a warm welcome to all to attend his teachings – regardless of faith, creed, or gender etc, and stresses that 'as common themes tend to run through all the spiritual paths, it is possible to use his teachings to complement and enhance the teachings of other paths and vice versa'. He teaches "Spiritual Knowledge" rather than religious dogma.

"Human Life, no matter how sucessful or famous and powerful one may be, is incomplete without taking spiritual path!"