Tashi Tsering (London)
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, since 1994.
Tsering was born in Purang, Tibet in 1958, and his parents escaped to India
India
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in 1959. He entered Sera Mey Monastic University in South India when he was 13 years old, and graduated with a Lharampa Geshe
Geshe
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degree 16 years later. Geshe Tashi then entered the Higher Tantric College (Gyuto
Gyuto Order
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) for a year of study.
Tsering's teaching career began at Sera, after which he taught the monks at Kopan Monastery
Kopan Monastery
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, Nepal for a year. He went on to the Gandhi Foundation College in Nagpur, India and then moved to Europe, initially to Nalanda Monastery in the South of France
France
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.
Tsering teaches in English and is renowned for his warmth, clarity and humour. Besides Jamyang, he is a regular guest teacher at other Buddhist centres in the UK and around the world as well as creator and teacher of the Foundation of Buddhist Thought, the two-year FPMT correspondence and campus course on the basics of Tibetan Buddhism.
Geshe-la should not be confused with Geshe Tashi Tsering of Chenrezig Institute, Australia.