Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was born in the province of Amdo, eastern Tibet, in 1926, and at age six was recognised as the reincarnation of the former abbot of Kirti Gompa. At the age of nine, he was ordained as a monk. Rinpoche received teachings from many high lamas and is one of the lineage holders of the Kalachakra tantra, having received that empowerment when he was 14 years old. At 32, having completed his monastic studies he was appointed the Abbot of Kirti.
After escaping from Tíbet in 1959, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche taught Tibetan orphans at the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, India. At the age of 45 he began a fifteen-year meditation retreat in a small stone hermitage above Dharamsala.
Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche has given Kalachakra commentary to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and is a teacher of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche:
“He is a great Kadampa master who shows real Kadampa Tradition...so completely renounced. There’s not one slightest worldly activity, not the slightest eight worldly dharmas, no self cherishing thought. Even talking, everything is as much as possible pleasing to sentient being’s minds.”
Rinpoche gave teachings in many countries in every continent around the world. He passed away at 2:30am, Saturday 16th December 2006 in South Delhi, India.
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