Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche (1931 - 2022)
Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche was a contemporary Buddhist meditation master and world-renowned teacher and author. His entire life was dedicated to the development of world peace and his heart teaching is that peace in the world comes from peace in the heart, and that modern people can find this inner peace through the teachings of Buddha.
After spending his early years studying Buddha’s teachings in depth in the monasteries of Tibet, he spent the next twenty years or so in meditation retreat in the Himalayas before being invited to the West in 1977 to become the Resident Teacher at Manjushri Center in the English Lake District. Since that time he devoted himself tirelessly to giving teachings, composing books on Buddhism and Meditation which are easily understood and practiced by people throughout the world.
Geshe-la has also established three unique study programmes, trained hundreds of qualified Teachers and created the International Temples Project, with the vision to give everyone in every major city in the world an opportunity to practice meditation. Because of his kindness, we have around 1300 centres in the world.
Scientific methods to accomplish inner peace
Venerable Geshe-la’s message is as simple as it is profound – all the problems in this world originate in the mind, and the solutions to these problems and the causes of lasting peace and happiness are also to be found in the mind. Only by developing inner peace in our minds through meditation can we solve our own problems and help others to do the same, and in this way create world peace.
Thanks to the extraordinary kindness of Venerable Geshe-la, the internal scientific methods to accomplish this inner peace are now available to everyone in the modern world.
This humble monk has touched the hearts of countless people around the world and inspired them to set out on a blissful journey to lasting happiness and inner peace.