An astonishing photograph of remarkable Lamas

Left to right: Kyabgön Sakya Tri’dzin Rinpoche; ‘Khordong gTérchen Tulku Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche; Thuk-sé Rinpoche; and Kyabjé Kalu Rinpoche.

The monks / Lamas on the other side of the table we cannot identify.

‘Khordong gTérchen Tulku Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche (‘khor gDong gTer chen sPrul sKu ‘chhi’ ‘med rig ‘dzin / འཁོར་གདོང་གཏེར་ཆེན་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་འཆིའ་འམེད་རིག་འཛིན་) was one of the Tsawa’i Lamas of Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen. Ngak’chang Rinpoche studied with him (on the advice of Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje) for 9 years on secondment whilst Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche was travelling in secret and incommunicado for 13 years.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche met Kyabgön Sakya Tri’dzin; ‘lKyabjé Chagdüd Trülku Rinpoche; and Kyabjé Kalu Rinpoche on numerous occasions during the 1970s and 1980s.