Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen

PersonType	Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Category:Translators Category:Tsadra Fellows and Grantees Category:Professors
MainNamePhon	Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
MainNameTib	བསྟན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
MainNameWylie	bstan pa rgyal mtshan
SortName	Gyaltsen, Lama Tenpa
namealt	Āchārya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen  ·  Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen  ·  Lama Denba Gyaltsen
bio	Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen is core faculty at Nitartha Institute and recently retired from Naropa University. Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Trakar, Nepal, near the Tibetan border. He completed 10 years of traditional scholastic training at Karma Shri Nalanda Institute at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India, graduating as acharya with honours (graduated in the same class as Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche). This was followed by traditional yogic training in the first three-year retreat to be conducted at Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche's monastery in Pullahari, Nepal. Following the advice of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Lama Tenpa taught at various Kagyu centers in Europe (Teksum Tashi Choling in Hamburg, Germany), at Nitartha, and centers in Canada. In 2004 he moved to Boulder, CO and began teaching at Naropa University. He retired from Naropa in 2020. Learn more about Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen on the Nitartha faculty page and at Nalandabodhi.
languageprimary	Tibetan; Nepali; English; German
affiliation	Naropa University
affiliationsecondary	Nītārtha Institute
religiousaffiliation	Karma Kagyu
StudentOf	Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche  ·  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
phduniversity	Karma Shri Nalanda Institute
education	Karma Shri Nalanda Institute at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India, graduating as Acharya with honors.
IsInGyatsa	No
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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.