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The 9th Jetsun Choekyi Gonpo
The First Root-Guru: The 8th Kyabje Khamtrul Rinpoche
From the age of six at enthronement until fourteen years old, Rinpoche learn under the close guidance of his first root guru, Kyabje Khamtrul Rinpoche.
At the age of fourteen, Khamtrul Rinpoche sent an urgent invitation for the young Choegon Rinpoche to get to Bhutan immediately, where he completed the transmission of the most vital teachings of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of Dechen Choekhor to Rinpoche.
Khamtrul Rinpoche had previously received the same teachings from the 8th Kyabgon Choegon Rinpoche at Nangchen Garh in Tibet, along with the 8th Kyabje Adeu Rinpoche. Shortly after that, Khamtrul Rinpoche passed away in Bhutan at the young age of forty-nine in the year H.H.
the late Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was still in Bhutan at that time, took on the mantle of teacher, and became Rinpoche’s second root guru until he passed on in