Geshe Tenzin Dhargye
Geshe Tenzin Dhargye is a Tibetan scholar. He is the rector and managing director of Tibet Center Institute and the Buddhist Center TDC – Thekchen Dho-ngag Choeling.
Education
Geshe Tenzin Dhargye was born in India. Dhargye joined the Sera Monastery at the age of nine, where his main teacher was Youngzin Ling Rinpoche, the 97th Throne Holder of the Gelugpa Tradition. In 1995, he completed his studies of the five divisions of Buddhist science, philosophy and religion with the final exam and received the Geshe Lharampa degree. Then he completed Tantric studies the Gyumed Tantric monastery and received the "Ngagrampa" degree. By the age of 18, while still a student, he was asked to teach the Sera Mey monks and later the monastic students at Gyumed Tantric monastery.
Activities and functions
Since 1996, Dhargye has taught in Europe. From 1997 to 2000 the 14th Dalai Lama requested that he act as lama for the Tibetan exile community. In this capacity, he taught in various locations, including communities, schools, the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, the Tibetan Children's Villages schools, the Tibetan Sogar Transit school, Namgyal Monastery of the Dalai Lama, Gadhong Monastery and Gadhen Chöling nunnery. In 1999, Dhargye visited the University of Virginia, where he worked alongside Jeffrey Hopkins. In 2000 he was nominated by the Dalai Lama as spiritual director and consultant for the organization of the October 2002 Kalachakra event in Graz, Austria.
In 2003 Geshe Tenzin Dhargye founded the Thekchen Dhongag Choeling (TDC) Buddhist Center, which became a recognised Austrian Buddhist order in 2005. In 2005 the 14th Dalai Lama appointed Geshe Tenzin Dhargye to manage the Tibet Center Institute in Hüttenberg, Austria, where he now resides since 2008 as a teacher of Buddhist science and philosophy and as the rector and managing director.
Sources and Weblinks
- Tibet Center Institute - Teachers of the Institute - official Website
- TDC–Thekchen Dho-ngag Choeling, Buddhist Order