Election and Career
In 1998, during the annual Nyingma Prayer Festival in Bodhgaya, the teachers who are responsible for the continuity of the Northern Treasures tradition elected Changling Rinpoche to be the next head of the lineage. Since the death of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Rinpoche’s main tutors are Khabjes Trulshik Rinpoche, Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche and Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche. Rinpoche teaches the senior students at Shechen College and those in a traditional three-year retreat, and teaches ritual and Nyingma tantra to senior students.
In previous years Changling Rinpoche was in charge of a section of the Shechen Monastery called dratsang, "the collection of monks". He has been a director of Shechen Monastery. Currently he is devoting his time to writing commentaries on the works of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and searching out missing texts of the Northern Treasure Lineage. As the abbot of the Sechen Monastery shedra (monastic college), he holds a post previously held by such lamas as Mipham Rinpoche, Sechen Gyaltsap and Khenpo Gangshar.
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