Venerable Abbot Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering

Venerable Abbot Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering was appointed the 91st abbot of Sera Mey Monastery by his Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2018. Prior to this, he was the resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre London for 24 years.

He studied at Sera Mey Monastic University, India, and graduated with a Lharampa Geshe degree, an equivalent of a Ph.D in 1990. He then entered the Higher Tantric College for another year of study. Geshe Tashi’s teaching career began at Sera, followed by Kopan Monastery, Nepal, Gandhi Foundation College in Nagpur, India, and then Europe, initially at Nalanda Monastery in France, before moving to UK, where he was the resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London from 1994 to 2018. In 2017 he received a M.A degree in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

He developed and taught the Foundations of Buddhist Thought, a two-year correspondence and campus course on the basics of Tibetan Buddhism in English. In June 2019 Geshe Tashi was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen's birthday honors list for his services to Buddhism in the UK.