His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is former head of state of Tibet and considered an important spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was born into...
Lama Thubten Yeshe was born in Tibet in 1935. When he was six years old, he joined Sera monastery in Lhasa, where he studied until 1959. As Lama Yeshe...
Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Thami, in the Mount Everest area, near Lawudo, where his previous rebirth had meditated the last 20 yea...
Teachers of the Maitreya Institute
Better known as Geshe Dhönden by Tibetans, he was born in 1941 in Tibet. As a small child, he joined the monastic university of Ganden, and became a m...
Buddhist teacher Ven. Losang Gendun is a Dutch monk. He previously worked in IT, refugee organisations and commercial management, but after practic...
Paula de Wijs has studied Buddhism for many years, and is currently director of the center in Amsterdam. She is involved in the FPMT since the 1970's,...