Tenga Rinpoche

Tenga Rinpoche (; 1932 – 30 March 2012) was a Tibetan teacher (lama) in the Karma Kagyu tradition.

Born in Kham in 1932, at the age of seven.

In 1959, Tenga Rinpoche left Benchen for Lhasa. After the 14th Dalai Lama left Tibet in relation with the 1959 Tibetan uprising, he escaped with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and the brother of Dilgo Khyentse, the 9th Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche. He then eventually traveled to northern India.

Rinpoche was a type 1 diabetic. He suffered complications including losing an eye and having a leg amputated.

On 30 March 2012, at 3:24 in the morning Nepali time, Tenga Rinpoche died. He passed 11 days later in a state of Tukdam.

Nyima Döndrup, the yangsi (reincarnation) of the previous Tenga Rinpoche was born 14 December 2014 in Nepal. He was discovered in 2017 following the indications of the 17th Karmapa who met him on 21 March 2017 in Bodhgaya for a ceremony at Tergar Monastery.