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By Jamyang Norbu
Lhasang Tsering was born in Tradun, in Western Tibet, in the Water Dragon year (1952). His father was a Nyingma ngakpa, or tantric master, from the Taklung Kagyu monastery in Riwoche near Chamdo. On his way to Mount Kailash, the ngakpa stopped at Gyangtse, where he took a young maid, Jhanjup, from the Tara aristocrat family as his spiritual consort. One account mentions that he may have successfully treated a member of the Tara family for a severe ailment, though this is not certain. On their long pilgrimage west, this spiritual couple had three sons — Ugyen, Karma Choephel, and Phurba Lhasung (later changed to Lhasang Tsering at Mussoorie school) — all born on ...
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