Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso – Founder of the NKT
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, founder of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union, is a truly remarkable person. Born in a remote village high on the Tibetan plateau he ordained as a Buddhist monk at the age of eight and spent the next twenty years studying the teachings of Buddha in the great Tibetan monasteries. After concluding his studies and being awarded the title ‘Geshe’, which means ‘virtuous spiritual friend’, he entered a life of meditation, engaging in deep retreat, at first near Nepali border and later in the mountains of northern India, where he soon developed a reputation as a great meditator, with many coming to regard him as a modern day Mahasiddha.
After almost twenty years in retreat, in 1977 at the request of his own Spiritual Guide, Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang, Geshe Kelsang graciously accepted an invitation from Manjushri Centre (based at Conishead Priory) to travel to the west and become a Resident Teacher. Madhyamaka Centre became the first residential centre to be established by Geshe Kelsang and Kilnwick Percy Hall and has been it’s home for 25 years. Geshe Kelsang has given thousands of teachings. Many of these teachings have been published in 22 highly acclaimed books on Buddhism and meditation, including his latest title, Modern Buddhism.
Madhyamaka KMC,
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