Lam Rim

Our Spiritual Director

Geshe Damcho Yonten

Lam Rim’s Spiritual Director, the Venerable Geshe Damcho Yonten escaped the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959. Years later in India, as a fully qualified Lharampa Geshe, students requested that he come to the West to impart his knowledge of Buddhist Teachings and in 1978 the Lam Rim Buddhist Centre in Wales was founded and has flourished, now with various groups around the UK & SA. Venerable Geshe Damcho-la first visited South Africa in 1989 and has returned on a number of occasions at the request of his students.

Deputy Spiritual Director

Gyalrong Khentrul Rinpoche took birth in 1978 at Dalhousie, a small hill town located a days drive from Dharamsala, and received schooling there up to third class. He was then recognised as a reincarnation of an ex-abbot of Drepung Loseling monastery by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and joined Drepung monastery in 1986. At present he is engaged in the Geshe Lharampa course which runs for six years with six annual examination. Rinpoche will no doubt be visiting our Centre in the not too distant future.

deputy director