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|bio=Geshe Jamphel Gyaltsen was born in 1968 in a small village in the Tsawa region of Kham, part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. At sixteen he became a monk in the local monastery but wishing to engage in more extensive Buddhist education, went to Zogong monastery in Chamdo for his studies of Buddhist philosophy.

In 1989 his second attempt to escape to India succeeded and he attended the Kalachakra Initiation in Varanasi; after an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama he went to Sera Monastery in South India, where after twenty-three years of study and debate he obtained the highest degree of Geshe Lharampa in 2008. Upon completing the traditional year at Gyurme Tantric College he returned to Sera, where he taught the youngest monks the basic philosophical subjects and acted as disciplinarian at his house, Tsawa Khamtsen.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche first invited Geshe Gyaltsen to become an FPMT resident teacher in 2009, but he had to decline the invitation at that time. In 2012 he accepted Rinpoche’s request to teach the FPMT Basic Program at Nalanda Monastery. While waiting for his visa for France, Geshe-la had his first experience of teaching Westerners at Root Institute in Bodhgaya, and finally took up his teaching post at Nalanda in early 2014, when he joined the abbot, Geshe Lobsang Jamphel, as resident teacher at Nalanda Monastery. Geshe-la currently teaches has completed the five year residential FPMT Basic Program at Nalanda for a second time, and will be the teacher of Nalanda’s second FPMT Masters Program, to start in 2023.

Geshe Gyaltsen is known both at Sera Je and at Nalanda Monastery as humble and very learned. At Nalanda Geshe-la has become highly appreciated for his clear and fluent teaching style, and the wonderful ability to explain the teachings in a way to which students can easily relate. ([https://fpmt.org/education/programs/basic-program/teachers/ Source Accessed Sep 16 2024])
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