Luding Khen Rinpoche is Abbot of Ngor Ewam Cho Dan Monastery, which is the seat of the Ngor Lineage of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism. Ngor Monastery is the head of hundreds of other branch monasteries. For over 500 years, the very name "Ngor Monastery" has been synonymous with great learning. This tradition of unequalled scholarship and practice continues today.

Ngor Monastery was founded in 1429 by the great master Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo. Prophesized by the Buddha, he was a brilliant scholar, teacher, and vajra master. The Monastery was named Ngor Ewam Cho Dan because while it was under construction, Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo dreamt that the collection of all Dharma arises from the letters E and WAM.

Every year since the monastery was established, the Ngor abbot has bestowed the precious Lam Dre teaching cycle, as well as the majority of full ordination ceremonies and countless other teachings to thousands of Sakya sangha members who gather from the branch monasteries. The Lam Dre, or Path and its Result is the major vajrayana practice of the Sakya tradition. It condenses both the sutric and tantric paths to enlightenment in three-month long secret oral instructions.

After the political difficulties in Tibet in 1959, the monastery was re-established by the Ngor abbot Luding Khen Chen Jamyang Tenpei Nyima Rinpoche in a quiet forest near Manduwala, in Uttranchal, in northern India. Through his skillful and wise leadership, the monastery has now fully re-established the performance and training of monks in all of the annual drubchot great tantric rituals, a flourishing training school for young monks, retreat center, library, and Sakya Pandita shrine. Construction of a tantric college for in-depth study of the great tantric texts is in progress.

Today, hundreds of monks travel great distances to enroll in the Ngor monastery school of ritual studies and to participate in the annual grand rituals, maintaining Ngor Monastery’s ancient heritage as a seat of learning and the headquarters for training of monks. Thus, the Ngor tradition has not only been completely re-established, it has been spread throughout the world.