Yanga Rinpoche
Togden Yanga Rinpoche is a highly-regarded Drikung kagyu Yamantaka Master who trained in and accomplished the traditional 5-fold Mahamudra and 6 Yogas of Naropa. After these traditional retreats, Yanga Rinpoche entered in to Yamantaka retreat practice for the life.
Through this extensive life-long retreat, Yanga Rinpoche has become highly regarded for his mastering of the Yamantaka practice and has also accumulated over 1.3 billion Yamantaka mantras.
Togden Yanga Rinpoche was a one of the great Drigung Kagyu masters. Rinpoche’s passing in 5/20/2008 when he was 85 years old at Konpo region in Tibet. Rinpoche was meditating in a cave for life just like Jetsun Milarepa in the Konpo region of Tibet. Rinpoche devoted his life to helping other and promoting the Buddha dharma. He is missed and we would like to thank and acknowledge the positive impact Rinpoche had on thousands of people around the world. (From a Facebook post)
(Amazing. He found his Yidam {Yamantaka} and he went into retreat for life. He spent his life achieving liberation and enlightenment. He didn’t waste his time at all on this earth. There is no such thing as you are ready or not to do dharma intensely or seriously. As long as you are in samsara and enduring birth, sickness, old age and death, YOU ARE MORE THAN READY. You are a fit candidate. More so because you want lasting happiness makes you a fit candidate. I hope to create a place like this in Kechara Forest Retreat for people to enter retreat also for periods of time. I rejoice so much in reading about Yanga Rinpoche. I wanted to share this with the world to let people know even now in contemporary times there are people practicing dharma completely and becoming great beings. Beings of light, love, compassion and walking antidotes to everything we know bring sufferings.
I wish to enter retreat for life too. It has always been my longing. I’ve always wanted this. Tsem Rinpoche)
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Togden Yanga Rinpoche is a highly-regarded Drikung kagyu Yamantaka Master. Inspiring …..Yanga Rinpoche entered in to Yamantaka retreat practice for the life. Amazing he even master the Yamantaka practice and accumulated over 1.3 billion Yamantaka mantras. He spent his life achieving liberation and enlightenment, meditating in a cave for life. Here we have Kechara Forest Retreat such a peaceful place for retreat, we have Rinpoche to thanks for . May more people coming to this beautiful place for retreat.
Thank you Rinpoche for this inspiring sharing.
Inspiring story of Togden Yanga Rinpoche a master who are so devoted to dharma, doing long retreat for life. A highly-regarded Drikung kagyu Yamantaka Master who has also accumulated over 1.3 billion Yamantaka mantras and meditating in a cave for life. Wow …. Great Master indeed devoted his life to helping other and promoting the Buddha dharma as well.
We are fortunate to have Kechara Forest Retreat to perform retreats for everyone. All thanks to Rinpoche we have such a place for retreats.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this inspiring post of a great Lama.
Very inspiring ……. such a highly regarded master Togden Yanga Rinpoche who was devoted to dharma. Through this extensive life-long retreat, Yanga Rinpoche has become highly regarded for his mastering of the Yamantaka practice. Amazing he has also accumulated over 1.3 billion Yamantaka mantras. Yanga Rinpoche reside in a cave in the Konpo region of Tibet till his passing in 2008. He has used his time fully to Dharma which has inspired thousand of people around the world of his commitment to become great beings.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this great master.
All past great masters and those who are living now are my source of inspirations. They have never ceased to amazed me in so many ways. They are very devoted to Dharma, firm and never give up. In this example, Yanga Rinpoche has shown us that simplicity of life, contentment and strongly upholding commitments are the things that we should emulate. We should remain steadfast and be true to ourselves. After all, we are the one who needs to answer to our own karma. I aspired that in this life and in future lifetimes, I’ll live my life meaningfully like Him, spreading and upholding Dharma , benefitting many others. Thank you so much Rinpoche for sharing this article on Yanga Rinpoche.
Reading this article and my comment back then, really bring joys to my heart and makes my blood thunder in my veins. May all masters in the past, present and future live long.
Dear Rinpoche
This is wonderful sharing.High Lama like Yanga Rinpoche shown us as a human being enable practice the dharma and get attainment in one life time.That’s wonderful.
As long as you are in samsara and enduring birth, sickness, old age and death, YOU ARE MORE THAN READY. – I will keep this in my mind always.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing on Togden Yanga Rinpoche’s long life retreat. Being a human with complete form and healthy body should go for ultimate Dharma path and gain Enlightenment. Togden Yanga Rinpoche had shown us a true example that we still can achieve liberation from suffering in this modern age. With the great inspiration and manifestation from Rinpoche to build and construct Kechara Forest Retreat, we should be more than fortunate to have the opportunities to contribute to the growth and development of Kechara Forest Retreat, so that everyone from around the world would have a place to perform retreats and gain their liberation from suffering and Enlightenment.
Togden Yanga Rinpoche is amazing, able to devote his life to dharma and reach such a highly attained state promoting the Buddha dharma and showing everyone is possible to become a Buddha with hard work and dedication to your prayers. I know Rinpoche would be able to achieve his dream of making KFR a place for people to do retreats, with the continuous growth of kechara Rinpoche has never failed to prove results and stick to his words. I believe in Rinpoche. Thank you Rinpoche for inspiring all of us.
It is beautiful to see and hear of such stories of devotion and dedication to one’s practice. How incredible fortunate and privileged we are to have such conducive facilities in Kechara Forest Retreat.
Rinpoche’s vision of “giving back” to the region and the people of Malaysia is truly admirable and one that is of true compassion.
How inpoche is creating an environment whereby people can do retreats sheltered from the elements with all the facilities required to enable and help the process. This is representative of the classic saying:
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”
REJOICE!
Thank you Rinpoche on sharing on this amazing Master who shows all the qualities of an enlighten being. Thank you Rinpoche for giving the opportunity for many to do retreats too in KFR in the future, and probably more comfy than a cave too!
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this blog post with us . Is very inspiring to know such a master who are so devoted to dharma, I fully agree with Rinpoche we are the best candidate to pratice dharma because our life is full of suffering and pain the only way to obtain ultimate happiness is by pratice dharma and transform our mind. Once again thank you Rinpoche for building KFR for us so that all of us can advance in our spiritual journey.
Homage to the holy scared great master. It is so incredible that he has accumulated over 1.3 billion Yamantaka mantras for his life long retreat. I wish we all will be able to go for long retreats in Kechara Forest Retreat soon under the guidance of our Guru H E Tsem Rinpoche. Thank you Rinpoche for building KFR to benefit all sentient beings.
排除一切世俗，放下所有欲望诚心修行，试问有多少人能做到？
Thank you Rinpoche sharing for this post.
I will do my best and follow step by step from Rinpoche dharma teaching.
Yanga Rinpoche has lived my dream of living like a yogi such as Milarepa and Naropa.
The Drigung Kagyu lineage is famous for producing yogis such as Yanga Rinpoche. It is not only important to make sure the Buddha dharma continues to flourish forevermore, but to make sure that the amazing lifestyle of the yogi does not die out.
在马来西亚这个国土要有像西藏那么好的修行风气真是不容易。 也许这边的地理环境和资源让我们太过沉醉于那么舒服的环境。 感谢仁波切长驻在世，也选择马来西亚建立克切拉禅修林，让我们未来也有机会在那么适合修行的环境下修行。
I always admire those who can give up everything to pursue enlightenment and be free of the eternal cycle of birth, aging and death and much much sufferings along the journey. However, we have all been so trained by the samsaric world order and do not have enough attainments to do what Togden Yanga Rinpoche did.
Luckily, we have Kechara Forest Retreat, specially manifested by Rinpoche for us to practise. We need to work for completion of KFR and then maybe we may have gained some merits to practise with such admiration.
wow, he is so holy and achieved. i hope he had a good rebirth and is still with the dharma. so many mantras and so amazing. thank you Rinpoche for sharing this.
Thank you Rinpoche for the sharing.Togden Yanga Rinpoche have set a very good example on how to treasure the precious human life.most of us spent time on pursuing materialise things, enjoy on the temporary “happiness”, we really need to push ourself further.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post. It is very heartwarming and inspiring to read about Yanga Rinpoche spending his whole life in Yamantaka retreat.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post on Yanga Rinpoche. It would be a great fortune for many if Kechara Forest Retreat has facilities for people who’d like to enter into retreat. The jungle here is very conducive.
Many of us may not be able stay in retreat for years in the beginning. But through practice and consistency, I’m sure we can.
This is what I like about Buddhism. We are taught the realities of life and solutions to overcome the our downfalls. Liberation is truly in the palm of our hand.
感谢仁波切总是无私的分享与开示
感谢仁波切总是为我们寻找一些高僧大德的事迹，并与我们分享，好让我们有更多的信心与活生生的例子人物作为我们的借镜，好让我们明白，只要我们愿意跟从佛陀的教诲，依循着，并透过修行，来转化我们的心识，来储存更多的福德资粮，好让我们能有所佛法成就，并能将这佛法的成就，来利益更多的众生，与有能力来帮助大家远离这娑婆世界。
感激师父为了利益更多的众生，建立起kfr，让我们有一个明确的目标，现在起做好准备，学习好基本的佛法知识，并开始转化我们的心识，改掉不好的习惯，然后能得到能去kfr禅修与闭关更高修持法的机缘。
师父都把修行的地方为我们准备好了，大家不要浪费我们的时间与得到机缘的机会了，现在就开始依循师父的教诲并发愿我们与一切众生都能得到这宝贵的机缘，不要错过了师父的一片利益众生的心。
祈愿师父的佛法宏愿圆满完成，常驻在世常转法轮
Nice and short post which posted by Rinpoche, I love to read it. Yanga Rinpoche is so powerful bring a huge impact in this modern day, reminded all of us included myself the importance of the spiritual part. No matter, what happen in worldly world, we still need to continue our spiritual practice.
Yanga Rinpoche showed me a good example, don’t waste our time for all the worldly stuffs, because the life is short. Do something more meaningful and can benefit many peoples.
Rinpoche also taught like this too!Tsem Rinpoche also a very good example for us to learn from him!!!
I do always have a question? Why a person who entered a long time’s retreat can be compassionate? I believed that wisdom really can achieve through meditation, retreat and so forth but how can it develop the quality of compassion? Sorry for asking such question but I really hope to completely understand it. Because through reading many Dharma’s books I found that compassion can be firmly developed through actions and when we really saw others’ suffering and their needs then we can develop it through giving others help and so forth. With folded hands.
What more better way to spend one’s life devoted into retreat and becoming one with Yamantaka? Yonga Rinpoche is one living testament that this is the right path to follow and the best way to spend our life. At the point of our death, nothing else matters but our practice. If we wanna spend our lives making ourselves rich and beautiful, i think we’ve lost a huge point of living.
May I be like Yonga Rinpoche one day, living in communion with my Yidam under the great care and kindness of my Guru.
Lama Kyabsuchiwooooo
I fold my hands to such a great enlightened master and the amazing example that was set forth. It is indeed incredibly rare for masters of such calibre and resolution for the Dharma to manifest during our time. Their pictures, items, life-story acts as a great inspiration for our practice. May I and all Rinpoche’s student develop such powerful resolution for the Dharma and also develop powerful attainments as a result. On a personal note, i pray that I will end my life in such a powerful retreat of Vajrayogini. (I hope!).
David.
We need to do more than just hope. Hoping doesn’t create results. Praying is good along with consistency, effort and effective actions. Then I’m sure your prayers will be answered.
Have a fruitful week ahead!
With love,
jp
This is my wish as well to spend the rest of my left years on a devoted retreat to one practice, it is so hard to practice this one moment we call life within every day life activities even after many years of effort and devotion to the dharma… so easy to full ourselves… thank you for inspiring words an biography of Rinpoche… may The Darma flow through us the best way unicly for everyone… love furyu
Salute to Togden Yanga Rinpoche being so dedicate his life to helping other and promoting the Buddha dharma.
Thanks Rinpoche for prepared Kechara Forest Retreat that make those who want to enter retreat a great and complete place. May all Rinpoche wishes will come true hence Kechara sanghas and Kecharians will help manifest Rinpoche wishes as soon possible…