Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe

Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe is the Founder and Spiritual Director of Drogmi Buddhist Institute and has been an ordained monk for over 50 years. Khenpo comes from a Tibetan refugee family, his parents escaped from Tibet in 1959. Like many Tibetans at that time they endured many hardships before they reached safety.

Khenpo entered the monastery in India at the age of 9 years. He completed his monastic training and then went onto study at the prestigious Sakya College.

At that time the Principal was the Most Venerable Khenchen Appey Rinpoche, a great Sakyapa scholar and perhaps still the greatest living Tibetan Buddhist scholar of all traditions. Khenpo was fortunate to be considered suitable for entry to such a prestigious college, and was blessed to have the opportunity to study with such a great teacher. During the course of these years of study Khenpo passed many examinations, both written and oral. Some were in the traditional Tibetan form of public debate and were observed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Sakya Trizin. On 8 March 2002, Loppon Ngawang Dhamchoe was given the title of Khenpo in a ceremony at Bir Monastery in Northern India presided over by His Eminence Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, and attended by many senior lamas and dignitaries.

Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe is widely recognised as a teacher of tremendous ability, conveying the profound Buddha teachings in a way that makes them accessible to modern times.