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Tulku Sherdor Rinpoche has been the Executive Director and principal teacher of the Blazing Wisdom Institute in the U.S.A. since 2004, and of its predecessor dharma center in New York founded in 1998 by His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.  

Born in Montreal, Canada in 1961, Tulku practiced Buddhist Insight meditation as a teenager, and met his principal teacher, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in Nepal in 1981.  He was fortunate to study closely with many other pre-eminent Tibetan Buddhist masters of the 20th century. 

Early in his life, he completed a forty-month lama retreat in the Karma and Shangpa Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism under Kalu Rinpoche, and a year-long intensive solitary retreat in the Chogling Tersar practice lineage held by Tulku Urgyen.  He has since completed ten years of formal retreats.  

After meeting his root guru Orgyen Kusum Lingpa in 1997, Tulku served him faithfully and tirelessly for 13 years until Kusum Lingpa’s passing in 2009, and has dedicated himself to the preservation and spread of his dharma treasure lineage and teachings ever since.  

At the same time, since the passing of Tulku Urgyen in 1996, Tulku has continued to rely closely on his son and dharma heir Tulku Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, along with Tsikay Chogling Rinpoche, and has done his best to serve and support their activities and sangha around the world.  Tulku has practiced with the ordained sanghas of the Chogling Treasure lineage in Nepal very extensively throughout his life.  

Tulku was recognized many times as a reincarnate Lama in his youth, and later (at the turn of the century) was formally enthroned in Lung Ngon Thubten Chokorling Monastery in Golog, Tibet, in a ceremony conducted by Kusum Lingpa and Ven. Hung Kar Dorje Rinpoche, and attended by thousands of Lamas and monks, as the rebirth of Walshul Dorje Nyima, a siddha in the family lineage (dung gyud) of Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje.  

He was also recognized by Choje Tulku of Sanglung Monastery in Golog as the rebirth of his previous-life root guru, Dodrup Wonpo Togmed Rinpoche, the head of Sanglung Monastery and the nephew of the 2^nd Dodrupchen, Phuntsog Jungnay. 

Tulku Sherdor’s work teaching, serving, and translating the dharma spans four decades, and is detailed in his memoirs A Path Strewn with Flowers & Bones, and in several others among his ten published dharma books. He is also a virtuoso chant master. 

Learn more at www.blazingwisdom.org, visit the BlazingWisdom YouTube channel, listen to Tulku’s recordings on your favorite streaming platform, and follow him on Facebook and Instagram. 

The following is a more detailed account of Tulku's dharma training and activities:

1.       WANGS AND TRANSMISSIONS RECEIVED

• Guru Rinpoche Wang from Tulku Urgyen, December 1981.
• Refuge Vows from Tulku Urgyen, December 1981.
• Karma Kagyu Ngondro Lung from Tulku Chokyi Nyima, December 1981.
• Bodhisattva and lay ordination vows from Kalu Rinpoche in the 1980s.
• Jonang lineage of Kalachakra Wang from Kalu Rinpoche in January 1982 and from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa in California in 1997.
• Gelugpa lineage of Kalachakra Wang from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya in January 1982 and January 1984, and at least three other times in New York City and Toronto, Canada.
• Karma Lingpa's extensive Shitro Wang from Kalu Rinpoche, and from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• Several Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu Wangs from Kalu Rinpoche in the early months of 1982, and then all the major Wangs of those lineages (including Vajrayogini, Chakrasamvara, Jinasagara, Six Yogas of Naropa and Niguma, etc.), as well as Mahamudra meditation instructions from him in 1986.
• Longsel Nyingpo Wangs from Katog Moktsa Rinpoche in Golog in 2005.
• Jang Ter Wangs from Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche in New York in 2002.
• Yerpa Kagyu Dorje Drollo Wang from Tana Tulku in Ohio.
• Tigle Gyachen Wang from Tulku Teglo.
• Guru Dewa Chenpo Wang (privately) and many other Chogling Tersar Wangs from Tsikay Chogling, and from Tulku Chokyi Nyima and Phagchog Tulku.
• Kunzang Tugtig Ngondro Lung from Tulku Urgyen, and again privately from Tsikay Chogling.
• Complete Wangs of the thirteen mandalas of Longchen Nyingtig from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa, including Rigdzin Dupa, Yumkha Dechen Gyalmo, Palchen Heruka, etc. 
• Rigdzin Dupa Wang from Tulku Hungkar Dorje in Golog, twice.
• Nyingtig Yabshi Wangs from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• Tri Yeshe Lama Lung and Tri from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• Ratna Lingpa and Urag Terton Vajrakilaya Wangs from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• A great many Wangs by Orgyen Kusum Lingpa from his Dzogchen Pema Nyingtig termas, including Kurukulle, Ozer Chenma, Tara, Manjusri, Vajrapani, Hayagriva, Dorje Drollo, Yamantaka, 1000 Buddhas, 84 Mahasiddhas, Amoghapasa, Orgyen Dzambhala, Orgyen Menla, and many others.
• Khandro Nyingtig Wang and Tri from Dungsay Rigdzin Dorje.
• Other Wangs from Khenpo Trangu, 3^rd Jamgon Kongtrul, Tai Situ, Shamar Tulku, Bokhar Tulku, Sakya Gongma, Tenga Tulku, and others.
• Lung-Tri of Khenpo Ngagchung’s Rang Nam and his Treg Cho and Togal manuals and of the Choying Dzod privately from Khenpo Sonam Topgyal.
• Yamantaka Wang from Terton Barway Dorje.
• Special "Living Powa" transmission from HH Orgyen Kusum Lingpa many times.
• Dorje Loppon Wang from HH Orgyen Kusum Lingpa to teach and transmit what he had bestowed upon me.

2.        TEACHINGS RECEIVED ON MAJOR TREATISES AND UPADESAS

• Sem Tri (Mind Nature) Instructions from Tulku Orgyen a number of times, including one-to-one.
• Dzogchen and Chagchen Upadesas from Tulku Chokyi Nyima publicly and privately at least fifty times.
• Paltrul Rinpoche’s commentary on Tsig Sum Nay Deg from Lama Thubten Phuntsog, Lama Wangdor, Orgyen Kusum Lingpa, and others.
• Mipham’s Guhyagarbha Tantra treatise from Riwoche Khenpo Sonam Topgyal.
• U-Ta Namched, Chos Dang Chonyid Namched, and Gyud Lama treatises of Maitreya from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso.
• Songs of Milarepa and Situ Panchen’s commentary on the Chag Chen Monlam from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso.
• Tug Je Chenpo Mar Tri and Che Dzog Nay Du manuals of Karma Chagme and Jamgon Kongtrul, and Shentong Madhyamaka teachings from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso.
• Karma Chagmed’s Bardo practice manual from Khenpo Sonam Topgyal.
• Mipham’s White Lotus explanation of the Tsig Don Soldep from Dungsay Thinley Norbu, and from Khenpo Sonam Topgyal.
• Tigle Gyachen teachings from Tulku Hungkar Dorje.
• Karma Lingpa’s Bardo Drug Tri from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• Kor Day Ru Shen from Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• Instructions on Bar Chay Kunsel sadhana practice from Neten Lama Putse.
• Sem Nyid Ngalso and Gyuma Ngalso from Sangngak Tenzin.
• Lung for Tsig Don Rinpoche Dzod one-to-one from Tarthang Khenpo Tubcho.
• Samten Ngalso Lung from Lama So Long in Golok.
• His own Dzogchen Gong Ter Upadesas from Kunzang Dechen Lingpa.
• Instructions on all the main practices of Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu from Lama Norlha.
• Ganges Mahamudra of Tilopa and other teachings from Garchen Rinpoche.
• Mipham’s Khenjug, Gampopa’s Dakpo Targyen, other foundational treatises from various teachers.
• Madhyamaka texts at Naropa Institute, and at U. of Virginia from Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins and visiting Geshes.
• Vipassana meditation instructions in the Theravada tradition from Christopher Titmuss, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Munindra-ji, including five 10-day to15-day retreats in Bodh Gaya and at the Insight Meditation Society.
• Independent study in Tibetan of many authoritative treatises, including Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo, all commentaries and guidance manuals in the Tukdrup Barchay Kunsel treasure cycle, Kunzang Lama’i Zhal Lung, Tsig Don Rinpoche Dzod, etc.

3.     SOME OTHER TEACHERS FROM WHOM I HAVE RECEIVED TEACHINGS, TRANSMISSIONS, OR BLESSINGS; OR WITH WHOM I HAVE ENGAGED IN DHARMA ACTIVITIES OR FORMED A VIRTUOUS CONNECTION

• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
• Nenang Pawo Rinpoche
• Dodrupchen Rinpoche
• Chadral Sanjay Dorje 
• Lagen Sanjay Tenzin  
• Tulku Thondup  
• Yonge Mingyur Dorje  
• Namkha’i Norbu  
• Khetsun Zangpo  
• Asura Lama Tsewang Phuntsog
• Karma Thinley  
• Beru Khyentse   
• Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen
• Gyalwang Drukpa  
• Drikung Chetsang  
• Tarthang Garwang Nyima  
• Namgyal Dawa  
• Choje Lama Phuntsog of Lekshe Ling
• Larung Khenpo Sodargye
• Larung Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro
• Ringu Tulku
• Sangyum Kamala
• Yum Dechen Chodron
• Ani Pema Chodron
• Tsangsar Tulku
• Yongdzin Rinpoche
• Yum Dugkar Drolma
• Dodrup Sungtrul  
• Lama Jampa Thaye
• Lama Orgyen Chodor
• Erik Pema Kunzang
• Tulku Jampal Dorje
• Tulku Pasang
• Choje Tulku of Sanglung
• Tulku Sempa of Sanglung
• Loppon Nyima Gyal of Sanglung
• Trangu Tulku Lodro Nyima
• Tarthang Akhong Tulku
• Trulshig Rinpoche
• Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
• Trungram Gyalwa  
• Lama Elizabeth Callahan
• Elizabeth Mattis Namgyal
• Lama Willa Baker
• Lama Jamdron
• Ani Ea Hiss
• Anyen Tulku
• Khenpo Garwang
• Acarya Malcolm Smith
• Namkha Drimed  
• Khenpo Palden Sherab
• Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal

4.      PRACTICES COMPLETED

• Fifteen or more 7-day and 9-day Drupchens and Drupchods at Nagi Gompa, Asura Gompa, and Ka Nying Gompa, including Ngag So, Tsekar, and Zab Dun Phurba.
• Twenty-five Rimay Monlams at Lung Ngon Gompa in Golog, Blazing Wisdom Institute, Orgyen Kusum Ling, Garrison Institute, and Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, twenty times as organizer and presiding Lama.
• Karma Kagyu Ngondro (111,111 of all parts) completed in 1984, and a second time in the first six months of three-year retreat in 1986, and partially a third time as daily practice in that retreat.
• Short (10,000) Shangpa Kagyu Ngondro in 3-year retreat.
• Short Tug Drub Bar Chay Kunsel Ngondro (10,000 of all nine parts) in retreat in 1991.
• Short Kunzang Tugtig Ngondro (10,000 of all nine parts) in retreat in the 2000s.
• Longchen Nyingtig Ngondro over multiple retreats and as daily practice for decades—many ‘Bums’ of all parts and millions of Vajra Guru mantras, except prostrations.
• Guru Dewa Chenpo Nyen Drub, at least 15 million mantras.
• Amoghapasa Chenrezig Nyen Drub, at least 5 million mantras.
• Ultimate Guru Yoga of Tulku Urgyen daily for many years.
• Orgyen Dorje Chang Guru Yoga of Orgyen Kusum Lingpa daily for many years.
• Daily Chod practice for many years.
• Complete Nyen Drup Lay Sum of Karma Kagyu Vajrayogini outer and inner and secret cycles in Three-Year Retreat.
• Chakrasamvara and Gyalwa Gyatso Nyen Drups in Three-Year retreat.
• Six-month intensive practice of Trulkhor and Six Yogas of Naropa in Three-Year retreat.
• Six Yogas of Niguma in Three-Year retreat.
• Many millions of each mantra in Trinley Nyingpo sadhana over years of daily practice.
• A dozen other Nyen Drups in three-year retreat, including Sangtig Purba, all major Shangpa Kagyu deities, Tsoglay Rinchen Trengwa, Mahakala, Karma Pakshi, Gampopa, Marpa and Milarepa Guru Yogas, and many others.
• Complete one-year solitary retreat practice of Tug Drub Bar Chay Kunsel with outer, inner, and secret sadhanas, using short, medium and full-length recitation texts daily, with daily long Dakini sadhana and concluding activity fire offerings (Gyin Seg).
• At least three times the seven-day Longchen Nyingtig Powa closed retreat under Kusum Lingpa and Hungkar Dorje, and five more times as retreat master for my students.
• Zabtig Drolma mandala ritual performed at least 1000 times.
• Treg Chod and Togal daily practice for years in retreat.
• Total of more than 10 years of actual retreat practice.

5.      ORAL TRANSLATIONS OF PROFOUND DHARMAS

• Jang Ter Wangs by Taklung Tsetrul in New York City.
• Dzogchen treasure teachings by Kunzang Dechen Lingpa in New York and elsewhere.
• Mahamudra teachings by Khenpo Trangu in Gampo Abbey and Montreal.
• Mahamudra teachings by Yonge Mingyur Dorje in New York City and at Garrison Institute and Blazing Wisdom Institute.
• Many Dzogchen teachings by Lama Thubten Phuntsog in New York City and at Blazing Wisdom Institute.
• Chogling Tersar Wangs by Tsikay Choling in Massachusetts and Nepal.
• Khandro Nyingtig Wang and Tri for Dungsay Rigdzin Dorje.
• Karma Kagyu three-year retreat teachings by Lama Sherab Tendar at Gampo Abbey.
• Yerpa Kagyu Wangs by Tana Tulku in Ohio.
• Karma Chagme’s Bardo Practice Manual, Mipham’s White Lotus explanation of the Seven Line Prayer to Guru   and his Luminous Essence overview of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, for Riwoche Khenpo Sonam Topgyal at Blazing Wisdom Institute.
• Many hundreds of teachings and Wangs from the Nyingma Kama and Terma lineages for HH Orgyen Kusum Lingpa across the USA and in Tibet.
• A few hundred teachings by Tulku Hungkar Dorje in the USA, Tibet, and Mexico.
• Teachings by Khenpo Sonam Topgyal at Karma Choling, Riwoche Temple in Toronto, Burlington Vermont, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Bangkok, Thailand (two different years).
• Three Yana teachings for Khenpo Karthar at Karma Triyana Monastery.
• Tour with Surmang Karma Senge (nephew of Chogyam Trungpa) at request of Vajradhatu International.
• Private teaching by Tulku Chokyi Nyima for retreat Lamas on Shechen Gyaltsab’s Dzogchen Upadesa.

6.      TEACHINGS AND TRANSMISSIONS OFFERED

• Complete Amoghapasa Wangs in Ithaca, Portugal, and Colorado, and Jenang (short Wang) many other times, including at Guru Rinpoche Park in Boudha, Nepal.
• Amoghapasa funeral ritual instructions (Nay Dren or Tru Chog) in Portugal, in Colorado, and at Blazing Wisdom.
• Longchen Nyingtig Powa transmission and week-long closed retreats in Portugal, at Blazing Wisdom, at Springwater retreat, and at Davidson Farm.
• Orgyen Menla Wang in Portugal, and at Sivananda Bahamas Ashram.
• Guru Dewa Chenpo Jenang and teaching at Blazing Wisdom.
• Reading transmissions for seventy texts from the Dzogchen Pema Nyingtig termas of Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• Longchenpa’s Samten Ngalso at Blazing Wisdom.
• Nangwa Lha Drup of Rongzom Mahapandita at Blazing Wisdom Institute and in Bodhanath, Nepal.
• Jampal Tsen Jod course at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Boudha and at Namgyal Monastery Institute in Ithaca.
• Gyalsay Laklen commentary by Dzatrul Rinpoche at Blazing Wisdom.
• Zang Chod Monlam commentary by Khenpo Abbe at Three Rivers Tibetan Cultural Center in Pittsburgh
• Performed funeral rites from Amoghapasa terma many times.
• Performed Powa for deceased dozens of times.
• Sangtig Dorsem commentary from Chogling Tersar at Blazing Wisdom.
• Chogling Tersar Tara teachings at Blazing Wisdom.
• Khandro Gay Jang Chod at Blazing Wisdom.
• Nying Tig Ngondro teachings and Lung dozens of times.
• Guru Yoga private teachings for Sivananda Swamis and senior staff at Bahamas Ashram.
• Meditation programs and teachings at Sivananda Ashrams in Grass Valley CA and Bahamas eight times.
• Medicine Buddha sadhana teachings in Ottawa, CA.
• Teachings at Dzogchen Foundation retreats at Garrison Institute and in Texas six times.
• Teachings and chanting sessions at Heart of Devotion retreats with Krishna Das at Garrison Institute and in Ithaca, five times.
• Retreat teaching programs on Dzogchen Pema Nyingtig and Longchen Nyingtig at various locations in Portugal ten times.
• Teaching programs at Awakened Heart Hermitage in Wales five times, including Lung-Tri for Choying Dzod and Zang Chod Monlam Tri.
• Manjusri Wang and teachings in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Various guest lectures at Rangjung Yeshe Institute.
• Weekend course on Mipham’s Guhyagarbha Tantra at Sangngak Tenzin’s center in Boudha.
• Jampal Tsenjod Lung and teaching at Sangngak Tenzin’s center in Boudha.
• Thirty-week seminar on Mipham’s Guhyagarbha Tantra commentary at Blazing Wisdom Institute.
• Offered refuge and bodhisattva vows a dozen times.
• Other retreat meditation programs in Ithaca and Springwater three times.
• Led many life ransom (Tsetar or Soklu) practices in Singapore, Colorado, New York City, Upstate New York, California, Portugal, and elsewhere, and participated in dozens of others including in Nepal.
• Mantra chanting program and CD release event at Tibet House, New York City.
• Six-week course on Mipham’s White Lotus commentary on the Seven Line Prayer at Blazing Wisdom.
• Three weekend retreat programs at Boulder Valley Ngagpa House, Colorado.
• Teaching programs in Singapore, including at Nyingmapa Meditation Center, Palpung Dharma Center, and Shenpen Tulku’s Center.
• Tsig Sum Nay Deg teaching at Blazing Wisdom Institute.
• Several dozen teaching programs on various sadhanas from Dzogchen Pema Nyingtig.
• Presenter on Tibetan Buddhism at the First Buddhism in America conference in 1997, presentation transcribed, edited and published in Buddhism in America (Tuttle, 1998).
• Closing teaching at Tulku Chokyi Nyima’s Dzogchen retreat at Garrison Institute.

7.      MAJOR DHARMA WRITINGS AND TRANSLATIONS

•  A Heaping Mound of Gems, a supplemental volume of the treasure writings of Dzogchen Pema Nyingtig, compiled and edited in Tibetan from notes and writings left by Orgyen Kusum Lingpa and not included in his previously published Terma volumes.
• Edited the B.A. thesis of Penam Chicorelli on the life and visions of Orgyen Kusum Lingpa.
• Translated the root verses of Jampal Tsenjod, now used in the Bodh Gaya Nyingma monlam book.
• Translated Vimalakirti’s and Rongzom Mahapandita’s commentaries on the Tsenjod, published with the root verses and Garab Dorje’s notes as The Wisdom of Manjusri.
• Translated and taught on Mipham’s commentary on the Seven Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche, published as Mipham’s White Lotus.
• Translated and edited two Sutras for the 84000 Project, the Sutra of the Child Inconceivable Radiance and Inspiring Superior Resolve.
• Finalized the translations of the Karma Kagyu Guru Yogas and the sadhana of Chakrasamvara for the Nalanda Translation Committee of Chogyam Trungpa.
• Translated, introduced, and published A Book of Common Tibetan Buddhist Prayers, including the Aspiration for Excellent Conduct, Jamgon Kongtrul’s Calling Out to the Guru, Karma Chagme’s Sukhavati Aspiration Prayer, Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path, Santideva’s Dedication Chapter from the Way of the Bodhisattva, Sutra of the Three Heaps, Sutra of Recollection of the Qualities of the Three Jewels, Heart Sutra, Mipham’s Buddha Shakyamuni sadhana, and dozens of other texts.
• Arrangements and Vocals for Guru Chants and Mantras of the Tibetan Tradition CD.
• Melody and arrangement for recording of the Mantra of Tara, Dispeller of Plagues.
• Composed a half dozen texts and prayers in Tibetan.
• Transcribed oral translation of Mipham’s Overview of Tantra called Luminous Essence.
• Translated Rongzom’s Perceiving Appearances as Divine.
• Several dozen sadhanas from Dzogchen Pema Nyingtig treasure cycle.
• First Dodrupchen’s lengthy Ngondro Liturgy, published as The Excellent Path to Omniscience.
• Wrote a book of original and lineage teachings on the profound meaning and vast benefits of Longchen Nyingtig Ngondro, entitled Entering the Great Expanse.
• Wrote three books of memoirs and short teachings: A Path Strewn with Flowers and Bones, Crumbs from a Parrot’s Beak, and More Crumbs from a Parrot’s Beak.
• Translated the Mahamudra Aspiration Prayer root verses with Situ Panchen’s complete commentary, as taught to me by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso and Khenpo Trangu (who wrote the introduction), published as Mahamudra Teachings of the Supreme Siddhas (1995) and later republished as the Eighth Situpa on the Third Karmapa’s Mahamudra Aspiration Prayer.
• Translated dozens of short writings (prayers, teachings, poems, Upadesas) authored by Tulku Hungkar Dorje.
• Dozens of other liturgical writings from various traditions requested by various Lamas and their students, such as chapters from the memoir and writings of Tulku Sanjay Tsering of Khatog Monastery (the rebirth of Khenpo Ngagchung), the Dorje Chang Tungma prayer, etc. etc.

8.      LAMAS WHO HAVE TAUGHT AT OR VISITED BLAZING WISDOM

• Orgyen Kusum Lingpa
• Tulku Hungkar Dorje  
• Umdze Chozang
• Garchen Rinpoche
• Yonge Mingyur Dorje
• Khenpo Karthar  
• Khenpo Sonam Topgyal  
• Sangngag Tenzin  
• Lama Tsultrim Zangpo
• Tsangsar Tulku  
• Lama Ozer
• Bardor Tulku  
• Lama Surya Das
• Lama Shenpen Hookham
• Lama Thubten Phuntsog
• Lama Rangbar Nyima’i Ozer
• Lama Tratop
• Lama Pema Chopel
• Lama Yeshe Gyamtso

9.      THE MOST CONCISE ACCOUNT OF MY TULKUHOOD

In 1983, I shared certain practice visions and experiences with trusted and experienced sangha friends who wrote on my behalf to Gyalwang Drukpa in Sikkim asking him to check whether I was a Drukpa Kagyu Tulku.

Gyalwang Drukpa (who was then 19) invited me to his Dilli Monastery. I arrived during funeral services for his Guru Tugsay Rinpoche, and we only had time to meet once before my visa expired and I returned to Nepal. He told my friend that “I should have stayed longer.”

In 1997 or 1998, after translating for him only a few times, I was sitting alone with Orgyen Kusum Lingpa at our host’s house after a teaching in Boulder, Colorado. We just sat without speaking, and he suddenly turned to me and asked rhetorically, “You are a Tulku, aren’t you?”

In 1999, I reached Lung Ngon Gompa in Golog for the first time, and the morning I arrived a Lama came into my tent and ushered me outside, where he told me that the previous night he had had a visionary and prophetic dream in which his previous life’s root Guru told him they would meet again the following day, and that he recognized me immediately when he saw me. 

This Choje Tulku tried unsuccessfully for years to arrange for my enthronement at the monastery of my previous incarnation, who was Wonpo Togmed of Sanglung Gompa, the nephew of the 2^nd Dodrupchen Phuntsog Jungnay. 

Choje Tulku enthroned me privately in the Jo Khang he had built at Lung Ngon Gompa, but died of an aneurysm before ever being able to escort me to Sang Lung.  I met the Tulku once of my previous life’s son (Tulku Sempa), but he also died very young.

A few years later, at Blazing Wisdom Institute, Kusum Lingpa announced during a teaching that I was an important Tulku from his family lineage (the Walshul clan descended from Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje) named Dorje Nyima who was a Vajrakilaya Siddha, and that he would enthrone me as such next time I came to Tibet.  And that’s what happened.