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Geshe
Tashi's teaching career began at Sera, after which he taught the monks
at 
The Venerable Denma
Locho Rinpoche was
born in Kham, eastern Tibet, in 1928. At the age of six he was
recognised as the reincarnation of a famous yogi, Chöying
Gyatso.
He entered Drepung Loseling Monastery at the age of eleven. Rinpoche
received his Lharampa Geshe degree in 1953 (coming first in his class)
and completed his Tantric exams at Gyume Tantric College in 1958. He
received many teachings from the late Venerable Ling Rinpoche (the
senior tutor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama) and became the main
lineage holder of all his teachings. After escaping to India in 1959
Rinpoche spent two years on a research fellowship at Calcutta
University and was principle of the Buddhist School of Dialectics in
Ladakh for six years. In 1967 he was abbot of a monastery in Manali
before moving to Dharamsala where he now resides. He served as Abbot of
Namgyal Monastery (the private monastery of his Holiness the Dalai
Lama) from 1986 to 1991.
Geshe Jampa Tekchok was born in
1930 and became a
monk at the age of eight. He studied the major Buddhist treatises at
Sera Je Monastic University in Tibet for fourteen years before fleeing
his homeland in 1959 following the Chinese invasion. Geshe Tekchok
continued his studies at Varanasi University in India where he obtained
his Acharya (Master) degree and taught for seven years. He then came to
Europe, teaching in England for three years and at Nalanda Monastery in
France for ten years. In 1993 His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed him
Abbot of Sera Je Monastic University in South India. He has now retired
to concentrate on teaching and writing.
Born in Tibet in 1934,
Rinpoche was ordained as a monk
at the age of seven. He entered Sera Je monastery at seventeen and
obtained his Geshe Lharampa degree in 1979. Following this, he entered
Gyume Tantric University and two years later became master of
discipline. In 1985 His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed him abbot of
Gyume, a position he held for 6 years. Since then he has taught
extensively in India and the West.
Geshe
Thubten Soepa was born in Zanskar, India in 1955. At the age of
fourteen he entered the monastery of Dromo Geshe Rinpoche in Kalimpong.
At the age of 19 he was sent to Sera Jey monastery in South India.
Geshe Soepa was fortunate enough to study under some of the greatest
teachers who had fled Tibet in 1959. He counts his Holiness the
Dalai Lama as his root guru and took his novice vows before the Serkong
Tsenshap Rinpoche and his full vows before Kyabje Ling Dorjechang, the
97th head of the Geluk tradition (Tib: Ganden Tri Rinpoche). He
also received many teachings and initiations from them, as well as from
Ganden Zong Rinpoche. After three years as resident teacher at Dzongkha
Chode monastery, Lama Zopa Rinpoche of the FPMT invited Geshe Soepa to
be the resident Geshe in our sister Centre of Arya Tara in Munich,
where he taught for nine years. He is now moved to an FPMT centre in Canada.
Venerable Robina
Courtin was ordained as a
Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1977. She was the editorial director of Wisdom
Publications until 1987 and then editor of the international Buddhist
magazine Mandala until the end of 2000. Since 1997 she has run the
Liberation Prison Project for Buddhist Practitioners which works with
people in prisons throughout the US, helping them with their practice
and studies. She is an enthralling teacher, using direct language to
powerfully put across her strong message.
Venerable Steve Carlier was
born in the UK and
has been studying Tibetan Buddhism since the 1980s, when he first met
Lama Yeshe, the founder of the FPMT. He has been ordained for more than
twenty years, studying at Sera Monastic University in South India under
the direction of Geshe Jampa Tekchok. He returns to Europe from time to
time to teach and translate, sharing his rare experience of living and
studying as a Westerner within the traditional Tibetan philosophical
system.
Gareth Sparham was born in
England and grew up
in Canada. He received a BA from McGill University and a PhD in Asian
Studies from the University of British Columbia. He was a Buddhist monk
from 1973 - 2001, studying at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics at
Dharamsala and making retreat in India for most of that time. He has
written and translated a number of books including Khunu Lama's 'Vast
as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea' and Ven. Lobsang Gyatso's 'Memoirs of
a Tibetan Lama'. At present he teaches Sanskrit and Tibetan language at
the University of Michigan and gives courses on Buddhism and meditation
worldwide.