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|MainNamePhon=Drupon Lama Karma Jnana
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|OtherNames=Drupon Lama Karma; Drupon Lama Karma Jnana
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|bio=Drupön Karma Jnana, also known as Tsampa Karma (“Retreatant Karma”) or Drub-la Karma Yeshe Tharchin, was born in 1953 in the Tashi Yangtse region of eastern Bhutan, near the site of Pemaling, a hidden land sacred to Padmasambhava. He began his formal education in Tibetan language and Buddhadharma at an early age, under the tutelage of his father, Lama Sönam Wangchuk.

By about 1979, the twenty-six-year-old Tsampa Karma had been introduced to the extraordinary Tibetan yogi who would become his root guru: Lama Naljorpa Sönam Druktop (1934–1994). By this time Lama Naljorpa was already an accomplished master of Mahāmudrā and Dzokchen, having spent nine years of intensive study and retreat under the tutelage of masters from all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism (after he escaped to India in 1961), followed by nine years of retreat in various sacred places throughout Bhutan. Lama Naljorpa’s root guru was Tokden Sönam Chölek, who had been principal tutor to the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoché, Döngyu Nyima. Upon meeting Lama Naljorpa, Tsampa Karma became one of his closest disciples, following a strict regimen of instruction and retreat practice for about the next three years in the Durong Charnel Ground in the region of Tashi Yangtse.

Then Lama Naljorpa asked Tsampa Karma to serve as the scribe for the renowned treasure revealer, Pegyal Lingpa  (1924–1988), who was transmitting the Kusum Gongdü at Sengé Dzong in response to profound supplications and offerings made by Lama Naljorpa. Tsampa Karma spent these years of active Dharma service (c. 1984–1988) in a constant practice of mindfulness but not in strict, closed retreat.

In all, he spent more than eighteen years devoted to a life of retreat. Drupön Lama Karma has also received extensive teachings and transmissions from the great Kagyü and Nyingma lamas of the late-twentieth and early twenty-first century, including Düdjom Rinpoché, both the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Karmapas, and Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoché.

See https://druponkarmajnana.com/index.php/about/
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