The Spiritual Director of MKMC is Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Geshe Kelsang is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Kadampa Buddhism. Geshe-la, as his students affectionately call him, was ordained as a Buddhist monk at the age of eight and then spent almost forty years in concentrated study and meditation. He has dedicated his entire life to teaching Buddhism and to providing conditions conducive for the study and practice of Buddhas teachings, with the sole aim of helping others discover a meaningful life and solve their problems. He is the Founder and Spiritual Director of New Kadampa Tradition, International Kadampa Buddhist Union. Geshe-la has written twenty highly acclaimed books that reveal the complete path to enlightenment, trained hundreds of meditation teachers through the Teacher Training Programme, and established almost 900 meditation centres in over 40 countries. A humble monk, he is made extraordinary by his selfless wish and tireless work for others to have everything they need to follow the spiritual path. Through his instructions Geshe-la shows how we can integrate Buddha's advice into our modern lives and find real, lasting peace and happiness. Manjushri Centre is the spiritual home to Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. (Taken from http://www.manjushri.org/meditation_teachers-geshe_kelsang_gyatso.php)
Tsokye Dorje died in 1510.
Tenzin Gyatso was born on July 6, 1935.
Tsangyang Gyatso was born on March 1, 1683.
It doesn't make perfect sense why AANG named his son Tenzin, but it makes sense why the SERIES CREATORS did. The shortened religious title of the Dalai Lama, the head of Buddhism, is Tenzin Gyatso. Gyatso was Aang's father figure and mentor.
Tenzin Gyatso is 79 years old (birthdate: July 6, 1935).
1. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 2. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Kelsang Gyatso was born in 1931.
Tsokye Dorje died in 1510.
Geshe Gyeltsen was born in 1923.
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, attended the Gaden Jangtse Monastic College in Tibet. He received a Geshe Lharampa degree, which is the highest level of Buddhist academic achievement in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Geshe Lama Konchog died in 2001.
Geshe Lama Konchog was born in 1927.
Geshe Thubten Phelgye was born in 1956.
Geshe Lhundub Sopa has written: 'The wheel of time'
List of Dalai Lamas There have been 14 Dalai Lamas: {| ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! | 1. Gendun Drup 1391-1474 No[17] དྒེ་འདུན་འགྲུབ་dge 'dun 'grub Gêdün Chub Gedun Drub, Gedün Drup, Gendun Drup 2. Gendun Gyatso 1475-1541 No[17] དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་dge 'dun rgya mtsho Gêdün Gyaco Gedün Gyatso, Gendün Gyatso 3. Sonam Gyatso 1543-1588 1578-1588 བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་bsod nams rgya mtsho Soinam Gyaco Sönam Gyatso 4. Yonten Gyatso 1589-1616 ? ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་yon tan rgya mtsho Yoindain Gyaco Yontan Gyatso 5. Lobsang Gyatso 1617-1682 1642-1682 བློ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་blo bzang rgya mtsho Lobsang Gyaco Lobzang Gyatso, Lopsang Gyatso 6. Tsangyang Gyatso 1683-1706 1697-1706 ཚང་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་tshang dbyangs rgya mtsho Cangyang Gyaco 7. Kelzang Gyatso 1708-1757 1751-1757 བསྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་bskal bzang rgya mtsho Gaisang Gyaco Kelsang Gyatso, Kalsang Gyatso 8. Jamphel Gyatso 1758-1804 1786-1804 བྱམས་སྤེལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་byams spel rgya mtsho Qambê Gyaco Jampel Gyatso, Jampal Gyatso 9. Lungtok Gyatso 1806-1815 (1808-1815)[17] ལུང་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་lung rtogs rgya mtsho Lungdog Gyaco Lungtog Gyatso 10. Tsultrim Gyatso 1816-1837 ? ཚུལ་ཁྲིམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་tshul khrim rgya mtsho Cüchim Gyaco Tshültrim Gyatso 11. Khendrup Gyatso 1838-1856 1844-1856 མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་mkhas grub rgya mtsho Kaichub Gyaco Kedrub Gyatso 12. Trinley Gyatso 1857-1875 ? འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་'phrin las rgya mtsho Chinlai Gyaco Trinle Gyatso 13. Thubten Gyatso 1895-1933 1879-1933 ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་thub bstan rgya mtsho Tubdain Gyaco Thubtan Gyatso, Thupten Gyatso 14. Tenzin Gyatso 1935-present 1950-present(currently in exile) བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho Dainzin Gyaco http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_the_7th_Dalai_Lama&action=edit |}
Palden Gyatso was born in 1933.
Jigme Gyatso was born in 1966.