Mingyur Rinpoche’s teaching activity can be understood as unfolding over several decades, beginning when he was still very young. Accounts converge on the point that he began guiding others in meditation as a teenager, with estimates placing the start of his teaching life somewhere in the early to mid-1990s. From that time onward, he has been offering meditation instruction continuously, so that his teaching career now spans on the order of a few decades. Describing this in approximate terms, it is reasonable to say that he has been teaching meditation for roughly 25 to 30 years.

Seen from a spiritual perspective, this length of time is not merely a measure of years, but a reflection of a long, sustained engagement with the inner disciplines he transmits. Beginning to teach at such a young age suggests a life shaped early on by contemplative training and by the responsibility of sharing it with others. Over these decades, his role as a meditation teacher has remained a central thread in his activity, whether in monastic settings or in broader public contexts. Thus, when speaking of how long he has been teaching, one is really pointing to a long-standing vocation that has matured steadily over a substantial portion of his life.