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CURRENT ABBOT (KHEN RINPOCHE)

The Abbot (Khen Rinpoche) term is of six year and after every six years, a list of nominees for new Abbot is gathered from the monks during the congregation and that is submitted to His Holiness the Dalai Lama via Dept of Religion and Culture. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has appointed Geshe Yonten Dhamchoe as the 79^th Abbot of Drepung Gomang Monastery, South India.

Born at Amdo Taktsang Lhamo (Tibet) in 1940, he escaped to India after invasion of Tibet by China 1959, he is one of the 60 monks who reestablished the monastery here at present location after shifting from Buxar. Day and night he and other monks worked hard in the field for crops, sometimes writing texts and scriptures so to provide monastic education to young monks who enrolled during that time, so that the study of monks goes on without hindrance and traditional monastic curriculum survives. Conferred Geshe Lharampa title in 1984 after passing Gelug University Examination with great result, Geshe la has been spending many hours of his day teaching the Buddhist sutras to the monks of this monastery.

Please kindly note that the photos of Khensur Rinpoches are placed as per their tenure and not a disrespect to any one.