1. Early Education

2. Monastic Education

3. Assisting and Travelling with H.E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche

4. Establishing Awakening Vajra International

5. Search for H.E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche's reincarnation

6. Current Activities

7. References

Geshe Gyalten recounts that he used to accompany his father on trans-Himalayan trading trips that consisted of mercantile activity between Nepal, China, Tibet, and India. Geshe Gyalten has one brother who is overseeing the running of his father's business.

Early Education

Tseten Gelek enrolled in Wue Tung Primary School in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1976, which he attended for 5 years during which period he learnt Chinese and followed the curriculum of modern education, excelling at oratory, outdoor-activities, and the sciences. In 1981, he entered San Tung Secondary School (=“Third” Secondary School) in continuation of his secular education.

In 1985, Tseten Gelek left for India for purposes of furthering his study, follows the advice of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama by enrolling at Upper TCV School in Dharamsala by dint of the advice of where he was intricately and proactively involved with curricular, extra-curricular, and administrative academic activities. Geshe Gyalten's web-presence^[3] attests to the fact that Tseten Gelek "was well known as a fine orator and debater among his Tibetan peers in India at this time."

Monastic Education

Upon completion of his secular education in 1990, Tseten Gelek joined the Buddhist monastic order under the direct and close tutelage of H.E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche, being given the monastic name of venerable Gyalten Kunga. Assiduously serving H. E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche for the entirety of the course of his Geshe studies at Sera Jey monastery, India, he became both Kyabje Choden Rinpoche's personal secretary and primary student^[4]. Geshe Gyalten completed the entirety of the classical monastic curriculum, centered on the "Five Great Classical Treaties of Buddhist Philosophy: [t]he Perfection of Wisdom, Middle Way, Logic and Reason, Treasure of Knowledge [=Metaphysics] and Vinaya (monastic discipline)" as well as extra-curricular instructions on Lam Rim, Mind training, [Traditional Tibetan] Medicine, … Buddhist Tantra … and yoga."^[5]

Assisting and Travelling with H.E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche

Having successfully completed his Geshe studies, Geshe Gyalten proceeded to travel with H. E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche in the capacity of his personal assistant, supporting the activities of His Eminence also by offering revision lessons and ancillary teachings since 1995. Having been mostly active in the South Asian continent until that point in time, H. E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche was invited to come and teach in Italy in 1997, to which convention Geshe Gyalten accompanied His Eminence. This resulted in a plethora of subsequent invitations to teach Buddhist meditation practice and philosophy, which H. E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche untiringly accepted. In support of his master, Geshe Gyalten travelled alongside His Eminence, taking on supportive duties in the administrative, communication-related and didactic domains. As a corollary, Geshe Gyalten eventually became proficient in Italian, alongside his native Tibetan, Chinese, and advanced English and Hindi skills.^[6] These teaching activities lasted well into the late 2015, with His Eminence and Geshe Gyalten visiting every continent of the world in the service of imparting Buddhist meditation practice to practitioners world-wide over the course of over two decades.

Establishing Awakening Vajra International

In order to preserve the legacy of his master, H. E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche, Geshe Gyalten, upon consultation of his teacher, founded Awakening Vajra International in 2010. The institution's headquarter is based at Ananada Dharma Center, in San José, California USA^[7] and has been founded in order "to fulfil the great vision of His Eminence Chöden Rinpoché to bring benefits to sentient beings through five branches of study and practice...:

• Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation
• Astrology
• Linguistics
• Medical Healing
• Art/Crafts and Sculptures"^[8]

In support of the realization of these aims, Geshe Gyalten has authored the book "Immovable, Like a Mountain: The Mind of Calm Abiding" (Awakening Vajra Publications: 2013).^[9]

Geshe Gyalten is the spiritual director of Awakening Vajra International

Search for H.E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche's reincarnation

The search group of senior students of His Eminence, amongst with Geshe Gyalten played a leading part, have successfully identified Tenzin Gyalten as the reincarnation of H.E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche, resulting in the confirmation and sanction by His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama^[10]

Current Activities

According to Geshe Gyalten's web-presence, "Geshe Gyalten met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, asking for his advice about continuing Rinpoche's projects, such as" the direction of "Awakening Vajra and many related activities including publishing, advancing the Five Branches of Study and many other activities envisioned by [H.E. Chöden] Rinpoche".^[2] Geshe Gyalten currently divides his time between his administrative responsibilities, teaching activity of Buddhist philosophy and practice as imparted by H. E. Kyabje Choden Rinpoche, consultation in matters traditional Tibetan medicine, and contemplative practice.^[11]

References

• Lap-dog (horse)
• LAPD Rampart
• LAPD SWAT
• LAPE
• L.A.P.E.
• La peccatrice del deserto
• La Peccatrice dell'isola
• La peche
• La pecora nera
• La pecora nera (1968 film)
• La pecora nera (disambiguation)
• La Pedrera, Rivera
• La Pedrera, Rocha
• Lapedus
• Lapeer County Courthouse
• Lapeer High School
• Lapeer, Kansas
• Lapeer, Mich.
• La peggiore settimana della mia vita
• La peggior settimana della mia vita
• Lapeh Sang
• Lapeh Sara
• Lapeh Zang
• Lapeirousia
• Lapeirousia euryphylla