n ga Rinpoche  ....................  was born into a noble family in  Lhasa, Tibet  in 1935, the son of Tsipon Shuguba, The Last Treasurer in the  Dalai Lama 's government in Lhasa.  In 1959, he was Vice-Abbot of Ngor Monastery, in the  Sakya  Tradition, but fled Western Tibet following the Dalai Lama during