Geshe Gyeltsen

Male, Deceased Person

1923 – 2009

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Who was Geshe Gyeltsen?

Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen was a Tibetan lama and human rights activist living in the United States. Gyeltsen had been described as "one of the last living Tibetan Buddhist masters to have been trained in Tibet" before 1959.

Geshe Gyeltsen founded the Thubten Dhargye Ling Buddhist center in 1978. He was a member of the same Buddhist sect, known as the Gelug or Yellow Hat sect, as the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Born
1923
Tibet
Ethnicity
  • Tibetan American
Died
Feb 13, 2009

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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