Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche’s previous incarnation was the highly attained master who taught Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche the Lamrim in that most meaningful experiential method of meditation and reflection on each topic of the Lamrim. (The Lamrim Chenmo was the work of great Je Tsongkhapa). Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche became the ‘living Lamrim’ and when he delivered the Lamrim teachings to his disciples, including the great Master of Masters Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang, his Lamrim was transcribed into a classic called ‘Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand’. Today thousands of people are accessing and studying Lamrim – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment ( which contains all of Lord Buddha’s 84000 teachings presented in a structured step-by-step manner)via ‘Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand’.

The original work, before Lamrim, was a 3-folio text by the great Atisha , called ‘Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment”. Atisha, the Indian pandit who brought Buddhism to Tibet in a ‘second wave’ had united the two lineages of Method (from Maitreya) and Wisdom (from Manjushri) in this Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment. Atisha had earlier gone all the way from India to Indonesia to study under Suvarnadvipa, the foremost adept on ‘Bodhicitta’ and received from him a transmission of the teaching of 2 lineages on Bodhicitta issuing from Maitreya, called “ The Seven-Point Instruction for Generating Bodhicitta” as well as from Manjushri known as “Exchanging of Self with Others”.

So now Suvarnadvipa returns as the earlier incarnation of Dagpo Rinpoche, Pabongka Rinpoche’s guru, who taught him the Lamrim. Atisha returns as Pabongka Rinpoche. And now again, Dagpo Rinpoche has returned to become the student of Pabongka Rinpoche, to study the Lamrim with him. Pabongka thus gives him the fruit of his mastery of the Lamrim from his teacher, the previous Dagpo Rinpoche.

So now, Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche (in this age and time)has spread Dharma’s and Lamrim’s wings to Europe and the West, as well as to other countries, for the benefit of all beings!