Tulku Sangye Dorjee (the current abbot of Tulku Pegyal's monastery) was born in 1983 in Kham, Eastern Tibet.
When he was 4 years old, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche came to Tulku Sangye Dorje's region and recognised him as a tulku among other tulkus. They were not actually named regarding whose tulku they were.
The young Tulku Sangye Dorje was about to enter Shechen monastery when the abbot of Dzogchen monastery claimed him as their tulku and he was formally recognised as the reincarnation of Jikme Yonton Gompa, the 6th Dzogchen Rinpoche's root guru.
He studied at the Dzogchen monastery in Kham until he was 9 years old, at which time he left for China where he attended a Chinese school until the age of 18.
He then travelled to Nepal where he studied classical Tibetan for two years and later entered the shedra at the Dzogchen monastery in southern India for four years.
Ultimately, at the young age of 24, Tulku Sangye Dorjee was requested by the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche to hold Tulku Pegyal's monastery in Kathmandu.
Now he lives there, caring for the monastics and lay people whose work, study and practice he greatly encourages and nurtures.
When he was 4 years old, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche came to Tulku Sangye Dorje's region and recognised him as a tulku among other tulkus. They were not actually named regarding whose tulku they were.
The young Tulku Sangye Dorje was about to enter Shechen monastery when the abbot of Dzogchen monastery claimed him as their tulku and he was formally recognised as the reincarnation of Jikme Yonton Gompa, the 6th Dzogchen Rinpoche's root guru.
He studied at the Dzogchen monastery in Kham until he was 9 years old, at which time he left for China where he attended a Chinese school until the age of 18.
He then travelled to Nepal where he studied classical Tibetan for two years and later entered the shedra at the Dzogchen monastery in southern India for four years.
Ultimately, at the young age of 24, Tulku Sangye Dorjee was requested by the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche to hold Tulku Pegyal's monastery in Kathmandu.
