The 33rd Kyabje Gyalwa, Menri Trizin, the spiritual head of the Tibetan Bon religion, has died at Pal Shenten Menriling monastery in Dolanji, Himachal Pradesh. He was born in 1929 in Amdo in Tibet where he began his lifelong study of Bon as a child. He left Tibet in 1959 and has studied and taught Bon, traveling extensively and establishing Dolanji monastery as a Bon centre.