Ayang Rinpoche

Ayang Rinpoche is also the founder of two monasteries, in cluding Thupten Shedup Janchub Ling at Bylakupee, Chogyab, and Ayang Tulku, Ayang being the name of a 435-year-old monastery in Kham (eastern Tibet) which is a branch of the Drikung main monastery.Perhaps no Tibetan lama is more identified with the transmission of Phowa to the West than His Eminence Ayang Rinpoche.

Friday, April 10, 2026

Rinpoche's Cremation Ceremony July 18, 2026


Ayang Rinpoche’s Ku-Dung (holy body)

at Thupten Shedrub Jangchub Ling Monastery in India

 

 

H.H. Palchen Galo Rinpoche, True Lhamo and the staff at Ayang Rinpoche's monastery are planning the activities surrounding the cremation of Chöje Ayang Rinpoche's ku-dung (holy body) on July 18, 2026. Visitors are welcome.

If you are planning to attend, and have not already let someone in your own country know, please send us an email so that we can notify the monastery.


Please see this guide to travel to Bylakuppe and accommodations in the area. For updates visit our website.

To be able to stay within the Tibetan Settlement of Bylakuppe, attendees will need to have a PAP, Protected Area Permit. Please enter "Dickyi Larsoe Tibetan Settlement, P.O. Bylakuppe-571104, Mysore, Karnataka" as the place proposed to visit. Note that it can take a month or longer to get the PAP approved.

After the cremation, Rinpoche's holy relics will be placed into a new stupa being constructed at his monastery. We invite you to make a tax-deductible offering to help complete Rinpoche's stupa and to support the cremation ceremonies. Please click below or send your check in USD to:

Amitabha Foundation

P. O. Box 2572

Aptos, CA 95001

With sincere thanks,

Your Dharma friends at Amitabha Foundation