The Artist previously known as Sebastian Ordonez receives ordination into the gö kar chang lo’ dé (gos dKar lCang lo’i sDe / གོས་དཀར་ལྕང་ལོའི་སྡེ་) from Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen in the shrineroom of their home in Penarth.

He now has the name Ngakpa Tul-zhug Nam-dor Ma-zhum Trö-dèn (sNgags pa brTul zhugs brNams rDo ma zhum khro lDan / སྔགས་པ་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་བརྣམས་རྡོ་མ་ཞུམ་ཁྲོ་ལྡན་) Uninhibited Awareness-spell-hurling Thunderbolt of Magnificent Awe-inspiring Splendour who Faces all Threats as a Furiously Raging Fearless Hero of Vajrayana.

He is the student of Lama Seng-ge Dorje who lives in California. Ngakpa Tul-zhug is from Argentina. He spent a few days with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen joined by Mé-tsal Wangmo and Ja'gyür Dorje for the day of his ordination.

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