Drubpon Rinpoche Teaching Retreat in Paris

Drubpön Pagsam Yongdu Rinpoche

Drubpön Pagsam Yongdu Rinpoche, also known as Drubpön Ngawang Tenzin, was born in 1955 at Chungkar in Bhutan and has lived in France for more than thirty years. He is the representative of the Gyalwang Drukpa in Europe and the spiritual head of the Drukpa Plouray centre in Brittany, the European seat of the Drukpa lineage. He served his teacher Thuksey Rinpoche for over fifteen years, and it was Thuksey Rinpoche who, shortly before his death, asked the Gyalwang Drukpa to take him on as a student. In February 2026 the Gyalwang Drukpa gave him the title Rinpoche. He leads retreats at Drukpa centres in France and Germany.