Geshe Lama Konchog
Geshe Lama Konchog was a great 20th century yogi. He was born in 1927, near Lhasa, Tibet. He studied for 25 years at Sera Je Monastery in Tibet and meditated for an additional 25 years in a number of the caves that border Nepal and Tibet.
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Soon after he left Tibet his guru, His Holiness Trijang Rinpoche, advised him to meditate in the cave of Tibet’s famous yogi and saint, Milarepa, in Tsum, Nepal. With only the wild animals for company, he practiced there for nine years.
Once during a long retreat, Geshe Lama Konchog ran out of tsampa (barley flour, the main staple of the Tibetan diet). He prayed to his teacher and resolved to remain in retreat without the tsampa. That very day a man appeared with more tsampa and offered it. From then on, whenever his supply of tsampa got low, someone would come and replenish it. He attributed this to the blessings and guidance of his teacher, saying that he had given up clinging to this one life and put his life “entirely in the hands of the guru.”
In 1984, Geshe Lama Konchog settled at Kopan Monastery, in Nepal, which had been founded by Lama Thubten Yeshe and his heart disciple, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. For the remaining 18 years of his life he devoted himself to the monks and nuns of the monastery.
Before he passed away, on 15 October 2001, Geshe Lama Konchog told his attendant, Tenzin Zopa, “It seems there is nothing I have not done in my life. I feel completely satisfied and I have no regrets.”
Provenance
These relics were offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche by Tenzin Zopa, Geshe Lama Konchog’s attendant. Rinpoche added these relics to the collection during the Relic Tour event in Mongolia in May 2004.
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