Trijang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso

Kyabje Trjang Rinpoche (1901-1981)
Ling Rinpoche, the Dalai Lama and Trijang Rinpoche at Hyderabad House, N.Delhi. 1956

The Third Trijang Rinpoche, Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (1901–1981)[1] was a Gelugpa Lama and a direct disciple of Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo. He succeeded Ling Rinpoche as the junior tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama when the Dalai Lama was nineteen years old.[2] He was also a lama of many Gelug lamas who taught in the West including Zong Rinpoche, Geshe Rabten, Lama Yeshe, Kelsang Gyatso, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Trijang Rinpoche's oral teachings were recorded by Zimey Rinpoche in a book called the Yellow Book.[3]

  1. ^ Repo, Joona (June 2011). "The Third Trijang, Lobzang Yeshe Tendzin Gyatso". The Treasury of Lives:A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibetan Religion. Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  2. ^ Lama, Dalai (1990). Freedom in exile : the autobiography of the Dalai Lama (1st ed.). New York, NY: HarperCollins. p. 18. ISBN 0-06-039116-2.
  3. ^ Kay 2004, p. 49.