The 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche is one of the outstanding teachers of the Kagyu Lineage and is head of Palpung Sherabling. The Tai Situ lineage goes back in an unbroken lineage for twelve generations. Tai Situ teaches in fluent English and also is a calligrapher, author, and geomancer.

The Treasury of Knowledge written by Jamgon Kongtrul, the great, who was famous for collecting a vast number of Tibetan works which were being lost and writing about these works and helping develop the reme movement. He also wrote a massivefive volume encyclopedia of Buddhist knowledge which has been translated into English and published by Snow Lion in to books each being about 500 page long.

The Ninth Situ Rinpoche worked with Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye on this renaissance movement. In 1996 the present Tai Situpa began a transmission and empowerment of these five great treasures. At these empowerments were many Rinpoches a ordained sangha and also thousands of devotes from around the World. His teachings were recorded and made into five books one for each of the volumes of the Treasury of Knowledge.

The Fifth Volume of the Treasury of Knowledge covers the wrathful Guru Rinpoche and the peaceful 1000-armed Chenrezig practice and the Jonangpa practice and the Mahamudra practice and then the Kalachakra Empowerment.