Loving All: Stories from My Life, My Teachers, and the Path of Compassion

TULKU PEMA RIGTSAL RINPOCHE is a student of Khenpo Dazer Rinpoche, Khenpo Chokhyab Rinpoche, Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, Yangtang Rinpoche, and others. Rinpoche is a holder of the Namkha Khyung Dzong lineage, a subtradition of the Dudjom Tersar. He resides in Humla, Nepal, where he oversees a monastery of five hundred monks and nuns and a community of retreatants and lay practitioners.

Laura Swan is a student of Tulku Pema Rigtsal Rinpoche and others. She began her study of Tibetan and buddhadharma in 2005 at Rangjung Yeshe Institute and continued her studies at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling’s monastic shedra. She has translated for 84000, Samye Translations, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, and more recently for the Khyentse Vision Project.

Thinley Norbu (1931–2011) was a master teacher of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, with many devoted students in the West as well as Asia. Revered as an emanation of the fourteenth-century master Kunkhyen Longchenpa, Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was a scholar, writer, poet, and translator, whose prolific publications include A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, his masterwork on the ngöndro (or preliminary practices); The Sole Panacea, on the Seven-Line Prayer of Guru Rinpoche; and A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan, an illustrated account of personal reminiscences.