Loden Sherab Dagyab Rinpoche
Born on 27 July 1940 in Menya, Eastern Tibet, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 9th Kyabgoen of Dagyab at the age of four.

A member of the Gelukpa linage, Rinpoche

Rinpoche

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 graduated from the Drepung monastic college. He also monastic communities of Nyagre Khangtsen of Gaden and of Ratö monastery. Among his teachers were H.H. Trijang Rinpoche

Trijang Rinpoche

Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche was a Gelug Lama and a direct disciple of Je Pabongka. He was the junior tutor and spiritual guide of the 14th Dalai Lama for forty years. He is also the root lama of many Gelug Lamas who teach in the West including Zong Rinpoche, Geshe Rabten, Lama Yeshe, Lama Gangchen...

 and H.H. Ling Rinpoche

Ling Rinpoche

Kyabje Ling Rinpoche was a Tibetan buddhist scholar and teacher.Born in Tibet, northwest of Lhasa, he also was the 97th Ganden Tripa and senior tutor to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The Ganden Tripa is the spiritual head of the Gelugpa Sect, the largest sect in Tibetan Buddhism. Kyabje Ling...

 (both tutors of H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama).

Exile

In 1959, Rinpoche left Lhasa together with the 14th Dalai Lama

14th Dalai Lama

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 to Dharamsala into exile. At the university's invitation in 1966, he joined Bonn University

University of Bonn

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, Germany, to work as a Tibetologist at its Institute for Central Asian Studies.

In 2004, Rinpoche founded the Tibet House

Tibet House

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 in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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, Germany.

Works

• Dagyab Rinpoche, Thomas Lautwein: Achtsamkeit und Versenkung. Lamrin - die tibetische Meditation. 2001, ISBN 3-7205-2264-4
• Dagyab Rinpoche, Robert A. F. Thurman: Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture : An Investigation of the Nine Best-Known Groups of Symbols. 1992, ISBN 3-424-01122-3