Geshe Ngawang's teacher, Khensur Rinpoche Jampa Tegchok, will be coming to Thosum Gephelling Institute from July 3rd through July 7th.

Khensur Rinpoche is one of the preeminent Buddhist scholars living in the 21st century. We are most fortunate to have him come and teach at TGI.

Khensur Rinpoche will be speaking on training the mind and love and compassion.

Born in 1930, Khensur Rinpoche Jampa Tegchok became a monk at the age of eight. He studied the major Buddhist treatises at Sera-je Monastic University in Tibet for 14 years before fleeing his homeland in 1959 after the abortive uprising of the Tibetans against the Communist Chinese occupation of their country.

After staying in the refugee camp at Buxa, India, Rinpoche went to Varanasi, where he obtained his Acharya (Master) Degree and taught for seven years. He then began teaching in the West - three years in England and ten years at Nalanda Monastery in France, and then in the United States. In 1993, His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed him as abbott of Sera Jeh Monastic University in India.

Khensur Rinpoche Jampa Tegchok is the author of 'Transforming Adversity into Joy and Courage: An Explanation of the Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas', and a commentary on Seven-point Mind Trainig, to be released later this year by The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. He has now retired to concentrate on teaching and writing.

Sera Je Khensur Rinpoche Jampa Tegchog has a wonderful ability to communicate the teachings of the Buddha and a lifetime of experience in doing so. He is the author of 'Transforming the Heart, The Buddhist Way to Joy and Courage'.

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