Founding master of the center is His Eminence Konchock Thoubten Tenpa Gyaltsen, 9th Togdan Tulkou. He is in charge of the 3 large monasteries of Lamayuru, Phyang and Shatchoukhul in Ladakh, to which 49 other gompas are linked.
Born the 5^th of January 1936 in Ladakh, he studied in Tibet, at Drikung Thil monastery in 1954.
He is an emanation of Humtchenkara, one of the Padmasambhava's eight masters captured by Chinese in 1959, he escaped. Togdan Rinpoche considers Dudjom Rinpoche, the Nyingma lineage spiritual master, as his root lama. He is today, with Garchen Rinpoche, one of the last lama of Drikung Kagyu lineage having received a full training in Tibet. Garchen Rinpoche, regent of Kham monasteries, is another great master of the lineage.

His Eminence Konchock Thoubten Tenpa Gyaltsen, 9^th Todgan Tulkou is in charge of the 3 large monastery of Lamayuru, Phyang and Shatchoukhul in Ladakh, to which 49 others gompas are linked.
Born the 5^th of January 1936 in Ladakh, he studied in Tibet, at Drikung Thil monastery in 1954.
He is an emanation of Humtchenkara, on of Padmasambhava's eight masters captured by Chinese in 1959, he escaped. Todgen Rinpoche consider Dudjom Rinpoche, the Nyingma lineage spiritual master, as his root lama. He is today, with Garchen Rinpoche, one the last lama of Drikung Kagyu lineage having received a full training in Tibet. Garchen Rinpoche, regent of Kham monasteries, is another great master of the lineage.

the center is placed under spiritual authority of its founder:
His Eminence Togdan Rinpoche