page_title: Kyabje Rinpoche
section_title: Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen
hierarchical_section_title: Kyabje Rinpoche / Tibetan Buddhist Institute (TBI) / Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen
caption_attribution_description: English: Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche and Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen
context_page_description: Kyabje Khensur Kangurwa Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche, was a Buddhist monk, Abbot of Sera Jey Monastery, and the founder of Tibetan Buddhist Institute. Khensur means "former abbot" and Rinpoche means "precious teacher".
  Former Abbot of Sera Je monastery, Holder of the transmission lineage of the Kangyur, considered widely as the greatest scholar of Abhidharma of his age and, perhaps, the foremost Vajrayogini practitioner, Kyabje Khensur Kangyur Rinpoche was one of the very last great practitioners and scholars largely trained in Tibet. He was known at Sera Je as one of the "Three Greats".
  Rinpoche taught all over the world including India, Australia, USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. Because of his extremely high qualifications, advanced knowledge and spiritual insights so rarely found in Lama's today, Rinpoche was often requested to teach at Sera monastery, where thousands of monks flocked to hear him speak.
  His administrative achievements include his election first as the Sera Je disciplinarian and then, in 1982, his appointment as the monastery's abbot. His charitable achievements include the reestablishment of Sera Je School and founder of the Tibetan Sponsorship scheme.
context_section_description: Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen is a student of Rinpoche and is now the resident teacher at Tibetan Buddhist Institute. Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen was born in 1966 and raised in the Tibetan village of Rumbatsa, within the broader district of Trěhor Kham, original site of the now legendary Dhargyay Monastery, and birthplace of founder Khensur Kangyurwa Rinpoche Lobsang Thubten, along with several other great Tibetan scholar-yogis of the 20th century.
caption: Kyabje Rinpoche (left) and Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen (right)
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