Rigdzin Shikpo Rinpoche

Rigdzin Shikpo (né Micheal Hookham) is the spiritual leader of the Longchen Foundation, a Buddhist organization based in Oxford, but with groups all over the UK and a branch in Germany. He is one of only a handful of recognized western Buddhist masters. “Rigdzin” (Skt. vidyādhara, Tib. རིག་འཛིན་) means “awareness holder” and according to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, it indicates someone who constantly abides in the state of pure awareness of rigpa and “Shikpo” translates as “one for whom everything all the ordinary concepts of this mundane world have dissolved”. [1]

Main teachers

• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
• Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche
• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
• Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
• Ngakpa Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche

External Links

• Ngakpa Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche