穹拉第十世轉世仁波切，仁波切生於1923 年 康地察雅地區， 3歲被認證為穹拉第十世轉世仁波切，13歲赴拉薩惹對寺修學，以十一年時間考上第一等那然巴格西，以及密續那然巴格西。跟過許多大師長如林仁波切前世、甘丹墀巴仁波切等學習五大部論，並由帕繃卡仁波切傳受比丘戒。

1959年以前，在西藏受過完整僧伽教育之善知識，今多已凋零，仁波切屬於碩果存者。他擁有許多珍貴的經論傳承，經常由達賴喇嘛指示為三大寺僧傳授法教。

1959年仁波切逃出西藏後，奉達賴喇嘛指示，移居美國紐約，由此而深入美國社會，成就了達賴喇嘛在美國弘法因緣。他因尊重戒律而示現還俗，故對於在家人生活知之甚詳，說法時每能切中實情，精彩闢喻，洽當引導。
 

◎Khyongla Rato Rinpoche is a reincarnate lama and scholar of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche was born in the Dagyab region of Kham, in southeastern Tibet. In 1928 senior Gelugpa monks divined that a five-year-old boy living in this remote part of Tibet was the reincarnation of the ninth Khyongla. On his sixth birthday monks on horseback took him from his parents home to a monastery some distance away where he was installed as its spiritual head. For over three decades he lived the sober life of a monk, studying at the most famous monasteries in Tibet and earning the Lharampa Geshe degree. In 1959 along with thousands of monks as well as the Dalai Lama, he fled on foot over the Himalayas to safety and to a radically different life in India, Europe and eventually in the United States. In 1975 he founded The Tibet Center, the oldest Tibetan Buddhist Center in New York City, USA.