Yangsi Rinpoche, Geshe Lharampa

Yangsi Rinpoche is the founder of Maitripa College. Recognized at the age of six as the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, he trained for more than twenty-five years in the Tibetan monastic tradition in South India and practiced as a monk until the age of 35. He came to the West in 1998, founded Maitripa College in 2005, and served as its President until 2025. He is a lay teacher and a father. He is currently suspended from teaching within FPMT.

Archival video of the January 1975 enthronement of Yangsi Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. Yangsi Rinpoche is the incarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, one of Lama Yeshe’s main teachers at Sera Monastery in Tibet. Filmed by Bradley Dobos; Digitization and enhancement by Laura Haughey; © Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, 2015; www.LamaYeshe.com