Sangter Tulku Rinpoche is the 8th incarnation of famous terton Dorje Lingpa. He was born in Sikkim in 1977. In his youth he was recognized as an incarnation of a great practitioner, abbot of Dorling Gompa (abbreviation of Dorje Lingpa), a small monastery from the tradition of Nyingmapa in Sikkim. Rinpoche has studied intensively under the guidance of the greatest present lamas of the Nyingmapa tradition. For 8 years he was studying at Nyingmapa Shedra in Sikkim and for 2 more years he practised debates in the great Shedra of Penor Rinpoche in South India.
When he was about twenty years old, his teacher, the great master Chatral Rinpoche, told him, that Sangter Tulku will bring a greater benefit to all sentient beings, if he will devote this life to the Kagyu practice and become a student of Venerable Tenga Rinpoche. Sangter Tulku has been living in Benchen monastery in Kathmandu for the next ten years, studying intensively Kagyu teachings. After receiving proper empowerments and oral transmissions from His Eminence Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and Tenga Rinpoche, he successfully completed a three-year retreat in Parping, a Benchen monastery meditation centre.
Venerable Tenga Rinpoche recommends fully Sangter Tulku as a Buddhist teacher, underlining that we can rely both on his education and his meditation experience. During the summer course in 2010 in the Centre in Grabnik Rinpoche said:
"When Sang Trul Rinpoche was seventeen or eighteen years old, his Teacher, His Eminence Chatral Rinpoche, made a prophecy: <It will be tremendously beneficial for your future if you go to Benchen Monastery and there continue your studies>. According to this advice Sangter Tulku Rinpoche settled in Benchen and started studying texts and rituals traditional for this Monastery. After years he went on lasting three years and seven months meditative retreat in our drunkhang Benchen Drubde Osal Ling in Parping. He was practicing in a very good way. During the retreat special experiences and realization occurred in his mind. Apart from all these, he developed deep love towards me and gave me all his heart. It is obvious for me that he is one of the tulkus, one of the Rinpoches of Benchen Monastery".
