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About Ewam Pema Khandro Ling
In 2008, Tulku Sang-ngag moved his family to Santa Fe, New Mexico, bringing the living traditions of his Dharma lineage to the Southwest. On November 16, 2009, he inaugurated a new center named Ewam Pema Khandro Ling. Since then, Ewam PKL has served as a gathering place for students to engage in regular meditation and traditional ceremonies, including monthly Guru and Dakini Tsog.
In 2011, Ewam acquired land in Glorieta, New Mexico, for a retreat center dedicated to deeper practice. There, Rinpoche installed a stone statue of the great master Longchenpa Rabjampa and a set of eight stupas, naming the retreat center the Dharma Throne of Longchenpa (Longchen Chotri).
Together these two locations provide a space for study, meditation, and the continuation of an unbroken lineage of practice. Over the years, Pema Khandro Ling (PKL) has hosted Nyung-ney retreats, Vajrakilaya drupchod rituals, and retreats devoted to advance practices of the Nyingthig and Namchak traditions, including tsalung, and Dzogchen approaches to trekcho and togal.
Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche
Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ewam International Centers around the world. Born into one of the oldest families in Tibet, which eventually came to be known under the name Namchak, or “sky iron,” in an area called Chamdo in the Kham region of Tibet in 1952, Rinpoche was recognized in early childhood both by the great rimé lama [representing all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism], Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö [1893-1959], and also as by the former Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, to be the reincarnation of the Gochen Tulku. Gochen Tulku is an incarnation of Gyelwa Chokyang, one of the 25 heart disciples of Guru Rinpoche.
“If you don’t actually extract some meaning from this precious human rebirth, if you don’t do something meaningful with this opportunity, you are leaving empty handed from a treasure trove. With your body, speech, and mind you should accomplish the divine dharma. That is the most important thing you can do.”
-H.E. Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche