TULKU SANG NGAG RINPOCHE

Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche, born in 1952 in Chumbo in the Kham region of Eastern Tibet, comes from one of Tibet’s oldest family lineages, known by the name Namchak (Sky Iron), which predated Padmasambhava’s introduction of Buddhism from India to Tibet in the ninth century.At the age of three, Rinpoche left his footprint embedded in a rock and continued over time to display various signs of miraculous behavior. Soon thereafter he was formally recognized by the great rimé master Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lödrö (1893-1959) to be the reincarnation of the sixth Gochen Tulku.
The lineage began with Gyalwa Chöyang, one of Padmasambhava’s nine closest heart disciples, who later reincarnated as the tertön Drimé Lingpa, and eventually the first Gochen Tulku, Gyalwa Gyatso. Drimé LIngpa was a disciple of Rigdzin Tukchök Dorje, whose own father was the great tertön Tsasum Lingpa. Drimé Lingpa had many students himself, including Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa (1730-1798), the discoverer of the vast and profound terma lineage of Longchen Nyingthig, who was also a fellow, younger disciple of Rigdzin Tukchök Dorje
ulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche, born in 1952 in Chumbo in the Kham region of Eastern Tibet, comes from one of Tibet’s oldest family lineages, known by the name Namchak

The lineage began with Gyalwa Chöyang, one of Padmasambhava’s nine closest heart disciples, who later reincarnated as the tertön Drimé Lingpa, and eventually the first Gochen Tulku, Gyalwa Gyatso. Drimé LIngpa was a disciple of Rigdzin Tukchök Dorje, whose own father was the great tertön Tsasum Lingpa. Drimé Lingpa had many students himself, including Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa (1730-1798), the discoverer of the vast and profound terma lineage of Longchen Nyingthig, who was also a fellow, younger disciple of Rigdzin Tukchök Dorje.