The full name of Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche is Kathog Rigzin Chenpo – Padma Wangchen Rinpoche. Rigzin Chenpo means great vidyadhara, a title for a great accomplished person who has attained the four vidyadhara levels of the Vajrayana. It also means the leader of a sect or the master of a teaching.

He has been a vegetarian and studied Buddhism with his parents since he was 6 years old. He has taken refuge in many great elders, such as: Monk Xingyun, Monk Weijue, Master Shengyan, Master Huifa, Master Xingdao, Master Shidai… In elementary school, I participated in Buddhist summer camps organized by various monasteries every winter and summer vacation. In the summer vacation of the year I graduated from elementary school, I participated in the first short-term ordination program held by Theravada Buddhism in Taiwan and became a novice monk for a month. I got to know my master, Kathok Rinchen Chenge Rinpoche, through a chance encounter. I immediately gained confidence and accepted the teachings of Manjusri the Lion. Although I was still in the first grade of junior high school at the time, I would go to Taipei or Kaohsiung every weekend. The center attends Dharma meetings and receives various sutra

1. Main experience: He is currently the cultural and creative director of Fayuan Publishing and Cultural Enterprise. He studied under Master Renzhen Qianbao, Master Langjia, Living Buddha Losang Zhihua, Living Buddha Awang, etc. He studied at Awancang Nyingma Buddhist College for four years. He translated many Tibetan texts and tantric rituals, such as “Collection of Poems of Caiwang Norbu”, “The Broad Regulations of Secret Wisdom Buddha Mother”, “The Five Stages of Vajrasattva”, “The Broad Regulations of the Actual Practice of the Wish-fulfilling Moon-faced Tara”, etc., as well as Tibetan Buddhist scriptures such as “The Holy Mahayana Auspicious Accumulation Sutra”, “The Mahayana Sutra of the Eight Yangs of Heaven and Earth”, and “The Sutra of the Eight Yangs of the Buddha”. 2. The course content for the 2023 and 2024 academic years will be “The Biography of Guru Padmasambhava” Faith is the first of the seven treasures and is the focus