Geshe Jampel Senge

Was born in Tibet and educated in India. He had to leave his country with his parents when Communist China invaded and occupied Tibet in 1959. He escaped Tibet via Nepal, and it took him and his family six months to cross the Himalayan Mountains. The family eventually arrived in India, but he lost his father during the journey through trauma and ill health.

Geshe Jampel Senge initially joined the Tibetan Homes Foundation in Mussoorie and later studied at Cambrian Hall School in Dehradun. He completed his Senior Cambridge Examinations, and 'passed out' from Cambrian Hall in 1971. He then went back to Nepal, and taught at the local Tibetan School in Swayumbunath.

In 1973 he became a monk, and joined Sera Monastic University in South India. He studied the Five Great Buddhist Treatises of Prajna Paramita, Madhyamika, Vinaya Sutra, Abhidharma Kosa, and Pramana, then graduated from Sera Je College with the highest academic achievement of Geshe Lharampa in 1991. He was ordained as a Bhikshu by H.H. The Dalai Lama on 5th July 1976.

He was invited to teach in Australia, and arrived here on September 16th 1996. He founded the Tashi Choeling Tibetan Buddhist Centre on February 6th 2000.
In 2004, he was posted to Switzerland by H.H. the Dalai Lama, where he is based today. He teaches across Europe during the months of May to December, and returns to Australia to teach 'down under' during the cold winter in Europe. He has also taught in Reno, Nevada, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the United States of America.