Serme Khen Rinpoche

Geshe Geshe (Tib. ''dge bshes'', short for ''dge-ba'i bshes-gnyen'', "virtuous friend"; translation of Skt. ''kalyāņamitra'') or geshema is a Tibetan Buddhist academic degree for monks and nuns. The degree is emphasized primarily by the Gelug lineage, ...

Tashi Tsering BEM () (born 1958) is

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The ...

of Sera Mey Monastic University in India. From 1994 to 2018, he was the resident

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teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre,

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. Tsering was born in Purang,

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in 1958, and his parents escaped to

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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

degree 16 years later. Geshe Tashi then entered the Higher Tantric College (

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) for a year of study. Tsering's teaching career began at Sera, after which he taught the monks at

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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

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. From 1994 to 2018, Tsering was resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London. In 2017 he received a masters degree in social anthropology from the

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in London. In the west, Tsering teaches in English and is renowned for his warmth, clarity and humour. Besides Jamyang, he has been a regular guest teacher at other Buddhist centres in the UK and around the world. He is also the creator and original teacher of the Foundation of Buddhist Thought Course, a two-year course which gives an overview of Tibetan Buddhist study and practice. In March 2018 it was announced that Geshe Tashi Tsering had been asked by the

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to become

of Sera Mey Monastic University in India. He was enthroned as abbot on 17 June 2018. In June 2019 he was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen's birthday honours list for services to Buddhism in the UK.British Empire Medal official notice
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Bibliography

*Geshe Tashi Tsering, (2005)
''Four Noble Truths: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 1''
Wisdom Books, *Geshe Tashi Tsering, (2008)
''Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 2''
Wisdom Books, *Geshe Tashi Tsering, (2006)
''Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 3''
Wisdom Books, *Geshe Tashi Tsering, (2008)
''The Awakening Mind: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 4''
Wisdom Books, *Geshe Tashi Tsering, (2009)
''Emptiness: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 5''
Wisdom Books, *Geshe Tashi Tsering, (2012)
''Tantra: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 6''
Wisdom Books,

References

External links

Geshe Tashi's dedicated websiteJamyang Buddhist CentreTeachings by Geshe Tashi Tsering
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