Jadal
Rinpoche

The Venerable Lobsang Sherap — known as Jadal Rinpoche or Jadal Tulku — is a bona fide, fully ordained Buddhist monk and member of Drepung Loseling Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist institution located in Mundgod, Karnataka, India. He has been a devoted Buddhist since birth.

In 1998, the 100th Ganden Tripa, Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo — then the throne holder of the Gelug Lineage and spiritual head of the Gelugpa sect — recognized Jadal Tulku Lobsang Sherap as the reincarnation of a distinguished practitioner-Lama named Pema Kundrol. At this time, he received his Getsul novice monk's vows from the Ganden Tripa.

A year later, in 1999, His Holiness the Dalai Lama — the spiritual head of all Tibetan Buddhists across all sects — also recognized Jadal Tulku Lobsang Sherap as the second reincarnation of Pema Kundrol. That same year, he was admitted to Drepung Loseling Monastery, where he would spend the next fifteen years in intensive study.

From 1999 to 2014, Jadal Rinpoche pursued the full monastic curriculum of the Gelug tradition — five major topics drawn from great Indian scriptural texts and mastered through the medium of logic and formal debate: Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom), Madhyamaka (Middle Way philosophy), Pramana (valid cognition), Vinaya (Buddhist ethics), and Abhidharma (Buddhist metaphysics).

In 2011, in Dharamsala, His Holiness the Dalai Lama ordained Jadal Rinpoche as a Gelong — a fully ordained monk (Sanskrit: Bhikshu). He maintains 253 commitments as explicitly prescribed by the Buddha in the Vinaya scriptures, in accordance with the Mulasarvastivadin school of monastic codes, an unbroken tradition since the 8th century.