Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a fully accomplished meditation master and scholar, and is the founder of the New Kadampa Tradition. He has established over 800 centres worldwide and written 20 highly acclaimed books on Buddhism.

Born in 1931, he ordained as a Buddhist monk at the age of eight. In 1959, he entered into an eighteen-year meditation retreat that took him to various locations in the Himalayan region and northern India.

Since arriving in the UK in 1977, Geshe Kelsang has worked tirelessly to establish Buddhism in the modern world. Renowned for their clarity and practicality, his teachings perfectly bridge the ancient wisdom of Buddhism and contemporary life.

The New Kadampa Tradition, the International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) is an international association of study and meditation centers that follow the pure tradition of Mahayana Buddhism derived from the Buddhist meditators and scholars Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa and introduced into the West by the Buddhist Teacher Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.



Kadampa Buddhism
Kadampa Buddhism is a Mahayana Buddhist school founded by the great Indian Buddhist Master Atisha (AD 982-1054). His followers, known as Kadampas, regard Buddha's teachings as personal instructions and put them into practice by following Atisha's instructions of Lamrim. Je Tsongkhapa and his followers, who were known as the ‘New Kadampas’, later promoted the Kadampa tradition widely in Tibet.



Further information from www.kadampa.org:
The New Kadampa Tradition
Kadampa Buddhism