Tibetan writer and former religious leader (1931–2022)
For the article about the Dalai Lama named Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, see 7th Dalai Lama.
6th Kadampa Temple, based on the design of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and dedicated to World Peace. Inaugurated June 2022
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (Tibetan: བཀལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: bskal bzang rgya mtsho; 19 July 1931 – 17 September 2022) was a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher, scholar, and author.[1] He was the founder and spiritual director of the New Kadampa Tradition-International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU), a registered non-profit, modern Buddhist organization that came out of the Gelugpa school/lineage. They have 1,300 centres around the world, including temples, city temples and retreat centres that offer an accessible approach to ancient wisdom.[2]
^Smith, Jean (1999). Radiant Mind: Essential Buddhist Teachings and Texts. New York: Riverhead Books. p. 324.
^"Centres of Modern Buddhism". Kadampa Buddhism. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
Geshe KelsangGyatso (Tibetan: བཀལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: bskal bzang rgya mtsho; 19 July 1931 – 17 September 2022) was a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher...
Union (NKT—IKBU) is a global Buddhist new religious movement founded by KelsangGyatso in England in 1991. In 2003 the words "International Kadampa Buddhist...
Kelzang Gyatso (Wylie: bskal bzang rgya mtsho; 1708–1757), also spelled Kalzang Gyatso, KelsangGyatso and Kezang Gyatso, was the 7th Dalai Lama of Tibet...
teacher; Geshe KelsangGyatso, the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT); Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso, a Karma Kagyu lama; Palden Gyatso, a monk who served...
and promised not to practice Shuk-den any more. David Kay notes that KelsangGyatso departs from Phabongkha and Trijang Rinpoche by stating that Dorje Shugden's...
taught in the West including Zong Rinpoche, Geshe Rabten, Lama Yeshe, KelsangGyatso, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Trijang Rinpoche's oral teachings were recorded...
following demonstrations by Dorje Shugden practitioners, especially KelsangGyatso's Britain-based New Kadampa Tradition, which broke away from the Gelug...
Buddhist books." It was founded by the Buddhist author and scholar Geshe KelsangGyatso. These include basic Buddhist meditation books such as The New Meditation...
the traditional Buddhist ordination, but rather one newly created by KelsangGyatso. Although those ordained within this organisation are called 'monks'...
Susan Shumsky. Exploring Chakras:Awaken your untapped energy Geshe KelsangGyatso. Tantric Grounds and Paths Leaves of Morya's Garden II (Illumination)...
Chödrön, Ken McLeod, B. Alan Wallace, Chögyam Trungpa, Sogyal Rinpoche, KelsangGyatso, Norman Fischer and the 14th Dalai Lama. Lojong mind training practice...
their existence on conceptual imputation. Designation is, according to KelsangGyatso's translation of Lorig, the application of a conceptual image or term...
ISBN 978-1906665043) is a commentary to Buddha Shakyamuni's Heart Sutra by Geshe KelsangGyatso. The Heart Sutra is a well-known Mahāyāna Buddhist Sutra that is very...
Khensur Lobsang Tharchin, Lama Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe KelsangGyatso all established teaching centers in the West from the 1970s. Tibetan...
Humans: Chakras and Kundalini. Ibera Verlag. ISBN 3-85052-197-4. Geshe KelsangGyatso. Tantric Grounds and Paths Arthur F. Buehler. Sufi heirs to the Prophet...
and killed Lha-bzang Khan in late 1717. Tsangyang was succeeded by KelsangGyatso, who was born in Lithang, as the 7th Dalai Lama. Nanda 2020, p. 30:...
the same year Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche visited Geshe KelsangGyatso in India and invited him to teach at the Manjushri Institute, which...
and Research. 2006. ISBN 978-1-886439-10-8. Translated from Chinese KelsangGyatso, Geshe (2001). Heart of Wisdom: An Explanation of the Heart Sutra, Tharpa...
India where, due to Wangyal's introduction, Thurman studied with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. Thurman was ordained by the Dalai Lama in 1965, the...
self-interest to purify and transform them. Buddhist scholar and author Geshe KelsangGyatso has also explained Buddha's teaching on the spiritual imperative to...
Mary Baker Eddy Josemaría Escrivá Louis Farrakhan Charles Fillmore KelsangGyatso Hak Ja Han L. Ron Hubbard Li Hongzhi David Koresh Anton LaVey Jorge...
personalized through the study of the works of authors as diverse as Geshe KelsangGyatso, Henry David Thoreau, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Pema Chodron, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
14th Dalai Lama In the United States Chögyam Trungpa In England Geshe KelsangGyatso In Germany Lama Anagarika Govinda Theravada dissemination Thai Forest...
Ornament of Liberation; Snow Lion Publications; ISBN 1-55939-092-1 Gyatso, Geshe KelsangGyatso, The Bodhisattva Vow: A Practical Guide to Helping Others, Tharpa...
Kadampa Tradition was founded by the Tibetan monk (formerly a Gelugpa) KelsangGyatso in 1991 when it took over the Manjushri Institute (Conishead Priory);...
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