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:

* Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

* 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.

There are currently 700 monks and nuns within the New Kadampa Tradition, all ordained by Geshe Kelsang.

Geshe Kelsang founded the New Kadampa Tradition " to bring pure Buddhist teachings to the west ," where he would train equally four types of teacher: monks, nuns, lay men and lay women.

* New Kadampa Truth-Fighting smears against Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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.

In the 1990s Geshe Kelsang Gyatso founded the New Kadampa Tradition ( aka NKT ), derived from this synonym of the Gelug.

The New Kadampa Tradition ~ International Kadampa Buddhist Union ( NKT — IKBU ) is a global Buddhist organisation founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in England in 1991.

The New Kadampa Tradition " offers standard Gelugpa teachings based on Geshe Kelsang's books, which present a systematic path to enlightenment.

In the Spring of that same year, Geshe Kelsang announced the creation of the ' New Kadampa Tradition ', an event which was celebrated in the NKT-Magazine Full Moon as " a wonderful development in the history of the Buddhadharma.

With the foundation of the New Kadampa Tradition ( NKT ) by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, he established a new and independent religious movement aiming to " principally follow the teachings and example of Je Tsongkhapa ".

Nowadays the New Kadampa Tradition describes Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's presentation of Buddhism to the West as Kadampa Buddhism with the following statement:

The New Kadampa Tradition ( NKT ) is an international non-profit organization registered in England as a charitable company ..., and was founded by Geshe Kelsang to provide a vehicle for promoting Kadampa Buddhism throughout the world.

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.

is defined as the union of Kadampa Buddhist Centres, the international association of study and meditation centres that follow the pure tradition of Mahayana Buddhism derived from the Buddhist meditators and scholars Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa, introduced into the West by the Buddhist teacher Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union ; and that follow the three New Kadampa Tradition Study Programmes ; and that are guided by the code of moral discipline called The Internal Rules of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union set out in this document.

New Dharma centers are expected to be self-supporting, as neither Geshe Kelsang nor the NKT-IKBU owns the centers.

* Geshe Ngawang Tsondu, Wisdom of The Staten Island, Dharma Centre, The Mediation Factory, and Tibet House, New York.

" 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 engages in meditation retreat and continues to write Dharma books and to help to preserve and promote the Kadampa Buddhism of Je Tsongkhapa in accordance with the instructions of Trijang Rinpoche.

The NKT-IKBU follows the tradition of Kadampa Buddhism derived from the Buddhist meditators and scholars Atisha ( AD 982 – 1054 ) and Je Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 AD ), as taught by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

:" It is an association of Buddhist Centers and practitioners that derive their inspiration and guidance from the example of the ancient Kadampa Buddhist Masters and their teachings as presented by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.

Geshe Kelsang become critical of the Gelugpa hierarchy's attempts to prevent him from passing on Dorje Shugden teachings that he had received from his own teacher.

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.

Ordained as a Gelugpa monk, he was the first American to receive the Geshe degree at Sera Monastery in India.

Oriented towards the Gelugpa school, it was founded by Geshe Michael Roach in 2000 and opened to students in September 2004.

When asked about the relationship between the NKT-IKBU and the Gelug tradition, Geshe Kelsang again self-identified as a Gelugpa: