2 Quotes & Sayings By Pema Lungtok Gyatso

Pema Lungtok Gyatso is a monk of the Gelugpa lineage, a senior teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and a Dharma holder in the Kagyu lineage. He was born in 1937 into a farming family in Tibet and received his higher education at the Drepung Loseling Monastery. After a number of minor monasteries were destroyed by Chinese troops, he escaped to India in 1959, where he began practicing as a monk. In 1973, Pema Gyatso was invited to teach at the newly established Nalanda Foundation, which had been founded for the purpose of training monks from around the world in the practice of Buddhism Read more