Tenam Lama

tenam laTenam became a monk at 15 years old. He studied at Dzogchen Monastery for 5 years. At the end of 1988 he started a 2-year pilgrimage through Tibet, taking a few months at a time to do retreats in caves. In 1991 he went to India to study at the new Dzogchen Monastery in the south. Two years later, he went to Sikkim to visit relatives and study English. In 1994 he came to the Nitartha Document Input Center and since then he has been working for Nitartha. In 1996 he came to the US with The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and has been traveling the world with him as his attendant. In 1998, Tenam and Gerry Weiner developed the Nitartha-Sambhota Tibetan Software and the Sambhota Unicode Software to help digitize and preserve important Tibetan texts. He is currently working on many Nitartha Publication projects.