Venerable Khenpo Tsewang

Khenpo Tsewang, born in South India in 1970 to Tibetan parents, became a monk when he was a young boy. To complete his formal studies, he entered the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute at Namdrolling Monastery in 1993. Upon graduation, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, abbott of Namdrolling Monastery and the Institute, sent Khenpo Tsewang to teach in Sarnath at Padma Samye Cho Kar Ling, a new monastery being set up by Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche.

Following this assignment, Khenpo Tsewang traveled to Taiwan where he taught and studied with Ven. Tulku Tsultrim Tharchin Rinpoche at his center in San Chung City. Khenpo Tsewang is presently in Nangchen City doing research, talking to many people and gathering the information and plans needed to present to donors and to use to build the school. All the pictures on the website from Tibet were talken by Khenpo Tsewang.

Along with being a well trained scholor and teacher, Khenpo Tsewang is a serious practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism. He is known for his love of practice and his abilities to led practice retreats and teach the forms necessary to fully understand the depths of the teachings. Khenpo Tsewang is skilled in the muscial instruments, ritual implements, torma creation, songs, and melodies of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan calligraphy and Tibetan astrology.

Seen above talking with Ven. Tulku Rinpoche at his center in Taiwan, Khenpo Tsewang has a lighter side.

Khenpo (right) photographed in Feb. 2007

He is a good cook, a carpenter, a wood carver and can sew and create hand made traditional Tibetan garments and monastic robes. A modern man he also uses computers, digital cameras, and SKYPE.

Khenpo Tsewang, (top row) with his headset he uses to talk via the web with his American English tutor, has a conversational command of spoken and written English.

During his stay in Taiwan he is continued to study with his Memphis based tutor. He is working hard on learning English so he can work easily with western students and personally direct their practice and studies.