Dagyab Rinpoche is an eminent Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Gelug School. I was recommended to make contact with him in 1988 by Dhardo Rinpoche, and I have kept in regular contact with him ever since. He fled from Tibet to India with the Dalai Lama’s party in 1959, and moved to Germany in 1966 - so he has a deep understanding of what we westerners are like!
His special concern is the preservation and further transmission of Buddhist Tantra. Of the Gelug lamas in exile he is the holder of the most tantric transmission lineages.
I have been fortunate enough to receive many teachings and initiations from him over the years. Perhaps the strongest teaching though has been witnessing his great devotion to his own teachers, his openheartedness, and the way he embodies the spirit of the bodhisattva, of practising not just for oneself but for the sake of all living beings.