Gyaltsen, Tenpa

Names

Tibetan: བསྟན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

Wylie:

• bstan pa rgyal mtshan
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Āchārya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
• Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
• Lama Tenpa
• Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
• Lama Denba Gyaltsen

Dates

Born:
Died:

Affiliation

Teaching at Naropa University since 2004

Kagyu/Nyingma - Graduated from Karma Shri Nalanda Institute

Other Biographical Information

Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Trakar, Nepal, near the Tibetan border. He completed 10 years of traditional scholastic training at Karma Shri Nalanda Institute at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India, graduating as acharya with honours (graduated in the same class as Person:Ponlop, Dzogchen). This was followed by traditional yogic training in the first three-year retreat to be conducted at Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche's monastery in Pullahari, Nepal.

Following the advice of Person:Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim, Lama Tenpa taught at various Kagyu centres in Europe (Teksum Tashi Choling in Hamburg, Germany), at Nitartha, and centres in Canada. In 2004 he moved to Boulder, CO where he currently resides, teaching at Naropa University.

Lama Tenpa is one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute: http://www.nitarthainstitute.org/about_faculty.shtml

Main Teachers

• Person:Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim
• Person:Ponlop, Dzogchen

Writings

• Works associated with Gyaltsen, Tenpa in the research library