Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung was born in 1969 in Dhorpatan, a very remote area of western Nepal and at the age of 11 joined other monks at Tashi Gegye Thaten Ling, his local monastery. After completing an initial course of study in Bön ritual texts and Tibetan calligraphy, he moved to Dolanji, India for further studies at the Dialectics School of Menri Monastery.
For the next 13 years Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung studied the complete Bön philosophical system of Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen; as well as the general Tibetan sciences including Tibetan grammar, poetics, white and black astrology, Sanskrit grammar, sacred geometry or arts, and general Tibetan medicine.
In 1994, after successfully passing his exams and being awarded the Geshe degree, Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung went to Kathmandu, Nepal to continue his studies of Tantra and Dzogchen under the guidance of Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak at Triten Norbutse Monastery.
In 1996, His Holiness Menri Tridzin Rinpoche and Yongdzin Rinpoche appointed Tenpa Yungdrung as Ponlob (Head Teacher) at Triten Norbutse Monastery where he has since taught at the Yungdrung Bon Academy of Higher Studies.
In 2001, Rinpoche was appointed as Khenpo (abbot) of the monastery by H.H. Menri Tridzin and H.E. Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak.
We are grateful that he finds time among his many appointments to travel extensively in the West to instruct and encourage his Western students.