Geshe Kelsang Gyatso notes:

* Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Buddhist scholar and author Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has also explained Buddha's teaching on the spiritual imperative to identify anger and overcome it by transforming difficulties:

Also Geshe Kelsang Gyatso published a translation titled " Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life " in 2002.

In 1976, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso was invited by Lama Thubten Yeshe via their spiritual guide, Trijang Rinpoche, to become the resident teacher at the main FPMT center in England.

Another example is the New Kadampa Tradition which was established in 1991 by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso following a three-year retreat in Tharpaland, Dumfried.

As Geshe Kelsang Gyatso explains in Heart of Wisdom:

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* Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

As Geshe Kelsang Gyatso of the NKT says:

As Geshe Kelsang Gyatso says:

Geshe Kelsang was born in Tibet in 1931 and ordained at the age of eight.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso was born on Dharmachakra Day ( the 4th day of the 6th month of the Tibetan lunar calendar ) 1931 in Yangcho Tang, eastern Tibet.

( In November 1986, Geshe Kelsang oversaw the rebuilding of Ngamring Jampa Ling Monastery after its destruction, and it was fully restored and reopened by September 1988.

" After studying on the Geshe training program at Jampaling, Geshe Kelsang passed two examinations at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, and received his Geshe degree.

Later Geshe Kelsang continued his studies at Sera Monastery near Lhasa, one of the great Gelug monastic universities of Tibet.

Waterhouse cites three reasons, traditional in Tibetan Buddhism, why Geshe Kelsang is authorized to be a Spiritual Guide, saying " The combination of experience, lineage and knowledge makes Geshe Kelsang ideal as a teacher.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's " Spiritual Father " was the great Gelugpa Master Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang ( 1900-1981 CE ), who was also the " root guru " of the current Dalai Lama.

Geshe Kelsang has repeatedly talked about his complete indebtedness to and reliance upon his Spiritual Guide, describing him as more important than his life.

In 1978 Trijang Rinpoche wrote a prayer for Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's long life that is regularly recited at New Kadampa Tradition Centres.

He is the founder and former spiritual director of the New Kadampa Tradition ~ International Kadampa Buddhist Union ( NKT-IKBU ), a Western Buddhist order based primarily on the teachings of the Gelugpa tradition, albeit " not subordinate to Tibetan authorities other than Geshe Gyatso himself.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a prolific writer and teacher of Buddhadharma in general, in particular the teachings of Je Tsongkhapa.

Kyabje Ling Rinpoche refers to Geshe Kelsang as " this most precious Spiritual Guide ," while Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche refers to him as " The excellent expounder, the great Spiritual Master Kelsang Gyatso.

" Tsem Tulku praised Geshe Kelsang and his publications: " The great master, the Kadampa Geshe, Kelsang Gyatso, you can see very clearly his works, his centers, his books, his pure vows, and how many thousands of people he affects.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, who had the teaching from Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche at the same time when I was there, gives the shorter lineage prayer and I put in the longer one ," and Belither confirms that " one of two existing lineages

In the second edition, Ling Rinpoche's name is omitted and replaced by ' Dorjechang Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche ' ( Geshe Kelsang Gyatso ).

* Modern Buddhism-The Path of Compassion and Wisdom-Free eBook by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

* New Kadampa Truth-Fighting smears against Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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* Gyatso, Geshe Kelsang ( 1982 ).

Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads Mahayana sutra s from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan Kanjur

Govinda had begun his explorations of Buddhism in the Theravada tradition, studying briefly under the German-born bhikkhu, Nyanatiloka Mahathera ( who gave him the name Govinda ), but after meeting the Gelug Lama, Tomo Geshe Rinpoche, in 1931, he turned towards Tibetan Buddhism.

Tibetan lamas such as the Karmapa ( Rangjung Rigpe Dorje ), Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Geshe Wangyal, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, Dezhung Rinpoche, Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin, Tarthang Tulku, Lama Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche all established teaching centers in the West from the 1970s.

Dhardo Rinpoche was educated in the traditional Tibetan monastic style, taking his Geshe Degree and graduating at the Lharmapa level at Drepung Monastery, and doing further study at Gyud-med Tantric College.

Even before coming to the West, Geshe Kelsang was " by all accounts, a very well respected scholar and meditator " within the Tibetan exile community.

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar ; Geshe Kelsang has written twenty books that aim to provide Western Dharma practitioners with essential Buddhist texts ; some are books for beginners such as Transform Your Life and How to Solve Our Human Problems, books about the Mahayana path like Universal Compassion ( Lojong ), and books on Vajrayana ( Tantra ) like Mahamudra Tantra ; ( born 1931, in Tibet ).

The distancing of Geshe Kelsang from the Tibetan hierarchy has also been underlined by a number of revisions made to later editions of his earlier publications.

* Path to Enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism, Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden, Tushita Publications, ISBN 0-646-16500-3

He began an eleven year traditional course of instruction at Bonpo Monastic Center and in 1986 attained the degree of Geshe, the highest academic degree of traditional Tibetan culture.

In April 1931 Govinda went to All-India Buddhist Conference in Darjeeling as the representative of the IBU, to propagate the “ pure Buddhist teaching as preserved in Ceylon, in a country where it had degenerated into a system of demon worship and fantastic forms of belief .” However, in nearby Sikkim he met the Tibetan Gelugpa meditation teacher Tomo Geshe Rimpoche alias Lama Ngawang Kalzang ( 1866 – 1936 ), who greatly impressed him and completely changed his views about Tibetan Buddhism.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, founder of the New Kadampa Tradition, was a devotee of Shugden, and the nephew of a man who had previously served as a medium for Shugden in Tibetan refugee communities.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu ( Ruocheng Ying ), are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje ( Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen ).

The many NKT centres which were built up rapidly by his followers could gather under the common auspices of the NKT and their spiritual guide, distinguishing and disassociating themselves from other Tibetan Buddhist traditions, especially the Gelug school from which Geshe Kelsang Gyatso originated.

James Belither, the former secretary of the NKT, described the NKT as " a Mahayana Buddhist tradition with historical connections with Tibet ", rather than a Tibetan tradition, and explained that Geshe Kelsang wishes his followers always " to present Dharma in a way appropriate to their own culture and society without the need to adopt Tibetan culture and customs ".

Whereas the NKT celebrate Geshe Kelsang as the one who " is primarily responsible for the worldwide revival of Kadampa Buddhism in our time ", " critics have described The New Kadampa Tradition as a breakaway sect or cult and argue it is not part of the ancient Kadampa Tradition but a split from the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

According to Helen Waterhouse, Geshe Kelsang follows the Tibetan Buddhist custom of studying texts through the teacher's commentaries.

Qualification as an NKT-IKBU Dharma teacher is generally achieved by attending the NKT-IKBU's own Teacher Training Program, which Geshe Kelsang regards as " a western equivalent to the traditional Tibetan Geshe degree.