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Drubwang Kunzang Gyurme or Drubwang Yeshe Dorje. (grub dbang kun bzang ‘gyur med, 1893-1983)གྲུབ་དབང་ཀུན་བཟང་འགྱུར་མེདའམ་གྲུབ་དབང་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་འམ་ཡངས་མ་མེ་མེ་བླ་མ།།

Drubwang Kunzang Gyurme aka Khenchen Kunzang Gyurme (mkhan chen kun bzang ‘gyur med), and Drubwang Yeshe Dorje (grub dbang ye shes rdo rje), colloquially known as Yangma Meme Lama (yangs ma me me bla ma) was born in the Khoma valley, Lhuntse district, Eastern Bhutan in the late 19th cent.

When he was young he served as calculator and astrologer or Tsidrung (rtsis drung) for Azhi Tsundru Lhamo, the queen and wife of the First King of Bhutan Gongsar Ugyen Wangchug (01 ‘brug rgyal po o rgyan dbang phyug), who later sent him to Tibet in order to receive spiritual teachings and training.

Upon arriving in Eastern Tibet he travelled throughout Kham and Amdo, where he met his root master Khenchen Kunzang Gyamtso (mkhan chen kun bzang rgya mtsho, d.u.). Withstanding various difficulties and obstacles he continuously remained with his master for several years receiving the entire empowerment, transmissions and instructions (dbang lung khrid gsum) according to the Dzogchen lineage of the First Dodrupchen Rinpoche Jikme Trinle Özer (‘jigs med phrin las ‘od zer) (1745-1821) and the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingthig (rdzogs chen klong chen snying thig) via Khamnyön Dharma Senge (khams smyon dharma seng ge, -1890).

After returning back to Bhutan he spent many years practicing in strict retreat. Later he went to he mountain retreat of Yangma (yangs ma ri khrod) at Yangma Samten Chöling Gönpa (yangs ma bsam gten chos gling dgon pa), near Thimyul village, Lhuntse district, where he remained practicing and teaching for the rest of his life. Among his countless students the main disciples are the great Dzogchen practitioners Wamakhar Rinpoche Pema Singye, Khenrab Jamtsho aka Tsampa Tseten, Dorje Lopen, Tsampa Boedpa and Tsampa Kelzang.

In 1983, at age ninety, Rinpoche passed away under numerous auspicious signs.

Source: Khomop Kunzang Dorji - མཁོ་མོཔ་ཀུན་བཟང་རྡོ་རྗེ།