Thubten Gyatso (Buddhist)

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Venerable Thubten Gyatso (the former Dr. Adrian Feldmann), was ordained by Lama Thubten Yeshe in the 1970's, and was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is a Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition veteran who has been instrumental in establishing a number of Dharma centres in France, Taiwan, Australia and Mongolia.[1]

Born in Melbourne in 1946, Dr Adrian Feldmann graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in medicine. After practising medicine in Australia and overseas, he travelled for several years through Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, eventually finding his way to a Tibetan monastery in Nepal. After much study and soul-searching, he became ordained as the Buddhist monk, Venerable Thubten Gyatso. Since then he has run a free medical practice in Nepal, taught Buddhism and meditation in Nepal and in France, establishing monasteries in France and in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.[2]

In the late nineties, Gyatso lectured extensively in the USA. He then spent some years in Mongolia, where he was well regarded, and his teachings were presented on radio and television and published in the local newspapers.[3]

Venerable Gyatso's most recent book, A Leaf in the Wind, is a personal account of one man's search for happiness which is often humorous and sometimes shocking. Venerable Gyatso doesn't shirk revealing the mistakes and failings which help to highlight his personal message of hope. He wants us to know that the ego undermines our happiness and fortifies our habitual destructive emotions. His spiritual path is a quest to slay the ego and his life story is a parable for modern times.[4]

Venerable Gyatso is currently undertaking a three-year solitary retreat at De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre in South Australia.[5]

 Tibetan Buddhism Portal

  1. ^ De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre
  2. ^ Review of The Perfect Mirror
  3. ^ Review of The Perfect Mirror
  4. ^ Books by Adrian Feldmann
  5. ^ De-Tong Ling Retreat Centre
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