Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
| Ratna Vajra Rinpoche the 42nd Sakya Trizin |
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| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| School | Sakya |
| Education | Sakya College |
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| Born | 19 November 1974 Dehra Dun, India |
| Spouse | Dagmo Kalden Dunkyi |
| Children | Jetsunma Kunga Trinley Palter Sakya, Dungsay Akasha Vajra Rinpoche, Jetsunma Kunga Chimey Wangmo Sakya |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | Kyabgon Gongma Trizin Rinpoche |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher | 41st Sakya Trizin, Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, 14th Dalai Lama, Luding Khenchen Rinpoche, Dezhung Rinpoche |
Ratna Vajra Rinpoche (born 19 November 1974), is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and the 42nd and current Sakya Trizin, considered one of the highest qualified lineage masters of both the esoteric and exoteric traditions of Buddhist philosophy and meditation. He is a descendant of the famous Khon family in Tibet, which holds an unbroken lineage of great and famous masters for over a thousand years. He is the eldest son of the 41st Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga. He teaches Buddhism and travels extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Ratna Vajra was enthroned as the head of the Sakya school on 9th March 2017.
From birth, Rinpoche has been the recipient of blessings, empowerments, initiations and teachings from many of the foremost high lamas and scholars of this age. Most of these were bestowed by the 41st Sakya Trizin and others were bestowed by the 14th Dalai Lama, Chogye Trichen Rinpoche (1920–2007), Luding Khenchen Rinpoche and Dezhung Rinpoche (1906–1987). In addition to receiving many empowerments and teachings from the Sakya Trizin, he learned many facets of traditional rituals from him also.
On the 14th day of the 11th Tibetan lunar month, the anniversary of Sakya Pandita (December 20, 1980), he began to receive the cycle of the precious uncommon Lam Dre teachings from HH the Sakya Trizin for the first time at Sakya Thubten Namgyal Ling monastery in Puruwala, India.
At the age of six, he started his formal education under the tutorship of Venerable Rinchen Sangpo. On October 10, 1981, he took his first oral examination in the presence of H.H. Sakya Trizin, his tutor and prominent members of the Sakya Centre on The Remembrance of the Triple Gem, The Three Heap Sutra, The Confession Sutra, the extended lineage Guru's prayers and several other texts. Since then, he has taken many oral examinations, including the examinations in which he had to lead special rituals in the Sakya Centre. In 1986 he performed his first meditation retreat together with his mother, Gyalyum Kushok Tashi Lhakee.
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