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Yangsi
Rinpoche
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Yangsi Rinpoche was recognized
as the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, a renowned scholar
and practitioner from Western Tibet, at the age of six. Rinpoche
trained in the traditional monastic system for over twenty-five
years, and in 1995 graduated with the highest degree of Geshe
Lharampa from Sera Je Monastery in South India. He then
completed his studies at Gyume Tantric College, and, in 1998,
having the particular wish to benefit Western students of the
Buddhadharma, Rinpoche came to the West to teach and travel
extensively throughout America and Europe.
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He was a resident teacher at
Deer Park Buddhist Center in Madison, Wisconsin for five years,
and is currently the Spiritual Director of Ganden Shedrup Ling
Buddhist Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the students
have just completed the first phase of a two-year study and
practice program based on the traditional Tibetan curriculum but
designed and tailored for modern students of the Buddhadharma.
Rinpoche is the author of
Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo,
published in 2003 by Wisdom Publications. Rinpoche teaches in
English, and is admired wherever he travels for his unique
presentation of the Dharma, his interest in and enthusiasm for
Western culture, and his evident embodiment of the wisdom and
compassion of the Buddhist path.
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