𝐀 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐣𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞.
A Biography of H.E. Dungsey Garab Dorje Rinpoche
H.E. Dungsey Garab Dorje Rinpoche was born in Brekha, eastern Bhutan, into one of the most illustrious lineages of the Nyingma tradition. He is the son of the great Nyingma master Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and the grandson of His Holiness the Second Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje, the head of the Nyingma lineage. On his maternal side, his grandfather was the renowned tantric yogi Sonam Zangpo Rinpoche, a principal disciple of Sakya Shri, the great yogi of the Drukpa Kagyu tradition.
Recognized as an emanation of Bodhisattva Manjushri, Rinpoche also carries the royal lineage of Tibetan King Trisong Deutsen, transmitted through the Second Dudjom Rinpoche to Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and now to him. This unbroken and pure father-to-son lineage remains a powerful source of blessings and spiritual transmission.
Upholding the Dudjom Lineage
At the young age of nineteen, Dungsey Garab Dorje Rinpoche assumed the profound responsibility of preserving and propagating the Dudjom lineage. In Bhutan, he leads major Dharma activities, including the Annual Grand Dorje Phurba Puja and the Group Practice of Krodikali, alongside granting significant empowerments. Since 2007, he has conducted the Dakini Krodikali Hundred Thousand Tsog Offering in Bodhgaya, the sacred site of the Buddha’s enlightenment, gathering over ten thousand practitioners in collective practice.
Training Under His Root Guru
From childhood, Rinpoche received extensive teachings, particularly the Dudjom New Treasure (Dudjom Tersar) transmissions, from his father and root guru, Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. His unwavering devotion and diligence in practice were evident from a young age, preparing him to carry forth the profound lineage.
A Historic Visit and Recognition by His Root Guru
In 2009, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche returned to Bhutan after more than a decade. Despite long and arduous journeys, thousands of disciples gathered to receive his blessings and teachings.
During this visit, Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was deeply moved to witness the tireless efforts of Dungsey Garab Dorje Rinpoche. In just over ten years, he had established numerous Dharma institutions, including:
• Rangjung Ösel Monastery
• Various retreat centers, yogi temples, nunneries, Buddhist institutes, and monastic training centers across Bhutan
Furthermore, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche observed how the Dudjom lineage flourished across Bhutan, with Dharma centers in every region. Monastics and lay practitioners alike were devoted to the Dudjom lineage practices, particularly the Dakini Krodikali Chöd.
Fulfilling a Prophecy
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche had prophesied that the Dudjom New Treasure teachings would be widely spread through the practice of Dakini Krodikali. This prophecy has been realized through the vast Dharma activities of Dungsey Garab Dorje Rinpoche. His compassionate aspiration is to continue turning the Wheel of Dharma for the benefit of all sentient beings, ensuring the widespread propagation of the Dudjom New Treasure teachings.
Through the blessings of the lineage mandala, may Rinpoche’s enlightened activities continue to flourish, bringing immeasurable benefit to beings and ensuring the endless turning of the Wheel of Dharma.
Long Life Prayer for Kyabje Dungsey Garab Dorje Rinpoche.
གདུང་སྲས་དགའ་རབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཞབས་བརྟན་བཞུགས་སོ།།
ཨོཾ་སྭ་སྟི། གཞོམ་བྲལ་ནམ་མཁའི་རང་བཞིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།།
དཔག་མེད་ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཉི་མའི་འོད།།
རང་བྱུང་པདྨའི་སྦུབས་སུ་འཕྲོས་པ་ལས།།
རང་བྱུང་པདྨ་རྒྱལ་པོས་ཁྱོས་ལ་སྲུངས།།
བསྟན་འཛིན་སྐྱེས་བུ་གང་ན་སུ་བཞུགས་པ།།
དེ་དག་སྤྱི་དང་ཁྱད་པར་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྗེའི།།
བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་སྲས་སུ་དབང་ཐོབ་པ།།
དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་སྐུ་ཚེ་ཡུན་བརྟན་ཅིང་།།
དགའ་ལྡན་ལྷ་ཡི་བུ་མཆོག་སེམས་ལྷག་ཅན།།
མི་ཡི་རྫུར་བཞུགས་མི་ལས་རབ་འདས་པའི།།
ལྷ་གཅིག་ཀུན་བཟང་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཆོས།།
ཨ་ཏིའི་བསྟན་པར་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་གྱུར་ཅིག།
Tashi Delek
Written by Mr. Phub Dorji
