Gelek Rimpoche

Gelek Rimpoche was born in Lhasa, Tibet, and recognized as an incarnate lama at the age of four. Carefully tutored from an early age by some of Tibet’s greatest living masters, Rimpoche gained renown for his penetrating insight. Among the last generation of lamas educated in Drepung Monastery before the Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet, he was forced to flee to India in 1959. He later edited and printed more than 170 volumes of rare Tibetan manuscripts that would have otherwise been lost to humanity. In the late 1970s Rimpoche was directed to teach Western students by his teachers and went on to found Jewel Heart, a Tibetan Buddhist Center with branches in the United States, the Netherlands, Malaysia, and Singapore. www.jewelheart.org

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