{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/tib/ksr.htm","path":"bud/tib/ksr.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/ksr.htm","text":"Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was born in 1926 in the Amdo region of\neastern Tibet. At the age of 8, he was recognized by the tenth Kirti\nRinpoche as the first reincarnation of Khensur Kramcho Phuntsog, a\nformer abbot of Kirti gompa in Amdo. At the age of 9, Rinpoche took\nordination as a monk.\nIn the mid-1950s, he made the arduous journey with Kirti Rinpoche\nto Lhasa to continue his studies at Drepung Monastery and avoid the\npolitical instability posed by the Chinese in the Amdo area. During\nthis period, he became tsen-shab (debate partner) to Kirti Rinpoche,\ndebating with him and reviewing his daily teachings.\nAfter escaping from Tibet in 1959, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche taught\nTibetan orphans at the Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala, India.\nAt the age of 45, he began a fifteen-year meditation retreat in a\nsmall stone hermitage above Dharamsala, big enough for a bed,\nprostrations, and a stove\".\nSeven years were spent in meditation on Lam Rim, 3 years on 7 point\nThought Transformation, and some generation and completion stage\ntantra. Two years were spent only on generation and completion stages,\nand in the final 3 years, Rinpoche repeated all of the above.\nLama Zopa Rinpoche has said of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche \"(He) is a\ngreat Kadampa who shows real Kadampa Tradition...so completely\nrenounced. There's not one slightest worldy activity, not the\nslightest eight world dharmas, no self cherishing thought. Even\ntalking, everything is as much as possible pleasing to sentient\nbeing's minds.\"","title":"Ksr","type":"page"}