Tibetan Teachers
His Holiness the XIV. Dalai Lama
His Eminence Loden Sherab Dagyab Kyabgoen Rinpoche
His Eminence Loden Sherab Dagyab Kyabgoen Rinpoche is the originator of the Tibet House. He came to Germany in 1966 in response to an invitation from Bonn University to work as a Tibetologist at its Institute for Central Asian Studies. In the 1980s, due to the explicit request of people interested in Buddhism he began to be active as a spiritual teacher for Europeans. The Buddhist community Choedzong e.V. came into being as a result of this collaboration and together with Rinpoche founded Tibet House.
Rinpoche was born in East Tibet in 1940 and at age four he was recognized as the IX.Kyabgoen (protector) of the region of Dagyab. He is one of the highest Tulkus in Tibet. In 1959 Rinpoche escaped with His Holiness to India. From 1964 to 1966 he directed the Tibet House in New Delhi, which is an internationally recognized institute for the preservation and support of the Tibetan culture.
For more than 40 years Rinpoche has lived with his family near Bonn. A list of his publications -- academic works about Tibetan Buddhist art, iconography and symbolism, translations of religious texts from Tibetan into German, introductory explanations for western Buddhists - can be downloaded as PDF files here.
The "Yellow Brochure" by Dagyab Rinpoche with the title "Ein guter Mensch sein - Einige grundsätzliche Gedanken über menschliche Kommunikation." (How to be a good human being. A few fundamental thoughts about human communication), can be downloaded here for free.
S.E. Dagyab Kyabgoen Rinpoche is known to hold the most transmissions of the Gelugpa lineage, but also many transmissions of the Sakya- and Kagyue lineage.
Zong Rinpoche
Zong Rinpoche is the Deputy Spiritual Director of Tibet House and is connected to the student body about Dagyab Rinpoche for over 15 years.
He is the reincarnation of the legendary Zong Rinpoche, who has contributed greatly to the spread of Buddhism in the West.
Zong Rinpoche was born in 1985 in Kulu, North India and studied and taught at Ganden Shartse Monastery in South India. S. H. the Dalai Lama appreciates him and his knowledge and very sees him as a hope for the generation of young Tibetan Rinpoche.
With Western culture he is very familiar, since he visited as a child a Montessori school (which is very unusual), and he lived for some time in the US. He speaks a very decent english.
Venerable Shenphen Rinpoche
Venerable Shenphen Rinpoche is a Gelugpa teacher of the younger generation (born in 1975 in Dagyab, Eastern Tibet), who lived and studied at Drepung and Ratö monasteries in South India. He completed his philosophical studies with the highest degree of a Lharampa Geshe. The spiritual leader and founder of Tibethaus Germany, H. E. Dagyab Kyabgön Rinpoche, to whom he is very devoted, invited Shenphen Rinpoche to Germany and asked him to be the resident teacher and head of the Buddhism sector of Tibethaus. Shenphen Rinpoche respectfully accepted the invitation and lives in Frankfurt since 2017. At Tibethaus Rinpoche teaches continuosly a wide range of buddhist subjects and study programs. He gives talks, has an open ear for questions and offers spiritual guidance. Rinpoche is a humorous, warmhearted and modest communicator and uses the German and Englisch language more and more fluently. He teaches in Tibetan and is translated into German.
Lodrö Tulku Rinpoche
Lodroe Tulku Rinpoche was born in Dahor/ East Tibet in 1942 and studied in Sera until he had to escape to India in 1959. He was a lecturer at Calcutta University teaching the history of religion. In 1967 he came to Switzerland following the request of H.H. Dalai Lama. For more then three decades he was working as teacher, translator and author in the monastic Tibet Institute in Rikon. Nowadays, he lives in Erlenbach near Zuerich and directs the centers Samdup Droelma Ling/Erlenbach, Yiga Tschoedsin/Zollikon and Samten Tschoeling/Winterthur.
He speaks excellent German and published a collection of rare Choed texts in German translation.