– Tibetan Bön tradition
Born in Menya in the Kham region of Eastern Tibet, he made his monastic vows and became a Buddhist monk at the age of nine. He studied rime, the Tibetan school of Buddhism, with Lama Tulku Ayung Rinpoche and many others great Tibetan masters from the five Tibetan Buddhist schools.
Samten Yeshe also studied philosophy and other topics of the Tibetan culture such as debate art, grammar, poetry, medicine and Tibetan mandala art. He has been the President of the Bön Dialectic School in India and has been teaching younger students in Menri Monastery. He obtained a PhD in philosophy in 2010. Since 2011, Samten Yeshe has been living in France and has taught Tibetan Dzogchen Meditation and yoga in Europe.
A unique participant in REKA, he decided to take part in this project because of its ethical and spiritual implications.