Documentary film about Tenzin Lodoe Rinpoche, reincarnation of Geshe Jampa Gyatso.
The Sangha Lhungtok Choekhorling Monastic Association together with the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute are happy to invite you to the meeting on Tenzin Lodoe Rinpoche, reincarnation of Geshe Jampa Gyatso, with the screening of a short documentary film.
The meeting will be an opportunity to discuss the recognition by His Holiness the Dalai Lama of the reincarnation of Geshe Jampa Gyatso, the first abbot of Lhungtok Choekhorling Monastery and resident Master of the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute for 27 years. Even today, Geshe-la is remembered by his numerous disciples as a tireless leader and an infinite example of loving kindness and compassion, always at the service of others.
Since 2007, the year Geshe Jampa Gyatso passed away, Ven. Massimo Stordi—his principal secretary for over twenty-five years—has coordinated the search for his reincarnation, including requesting divinations to aid the process. To support his swift rebirth, he has also commissioned numerous Pujas (prayers and ceremonies) in the most significant monasteries of South India.
MEETING PROGRAM
In-person event at 20:45 p.m. on Friday, July 4. Free admission while seats last.
Where: Lama Tsongkhapa Hall (Gompa)
- Greetings from Lucia Landi, President of the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute.
- Introduction to Tenzin Lodoe Rinpoche, from when Geshe Jampa Gyatso left his body, to the recognition of reincarnation, with Ven. Massimo Stordi.
- Intervention by Ivano Colombo, Vice President of the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, disciple of Geshe Ciampa Ghiatso
- Introduction and screening of the short documentary film (in Tibetan with English subtitles) by Manuela Ferro, Vice President of the Sangha Ets Foundation.
Short video tribute from the Director. - Questions and answers from the audience.
In-person event. The recording of the meeting will be published later on the media channels of the Sangha Lhungtok Choekhorling Monastic Association
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Biography of Tenzin Lodoe Rinpoche
Tenzin Lodoe Rinpoche (Tsering Dorjee), son of Gorchung and Kalsang Dolma, was born in Mangnam in 2014 in a small village in the mountains of Aranuchal Pradesh, an Indian state bordering Tibet, and is now 11 years old.
Rinpoche came to Sera Jey thanks to the pleas of his elder brother Tenzin Gyatso, already a monk and resident in House number 3. In fact, their family, being extremely poor, entrusted them to the Monastery to guarantee their survival and the possibility of obtaining an education.
In February 2025, His Holiness the Dalai Lama recognized him as the authentic reincarnation of Geshe Jampa Gyatso.
On April 4th in Dharamsala, the first meeting of the little Rinpoche with the Dalai Lama took place, who was asked to give him a new name, an auspicious one as per tradition. His Holiness was shown the photo of Geshe Jampa Gyatso, whom he recognized, and looking at the child he placed his forehead on his as a sign of greeting and blessing, reciting prayers. They were very intense and emotional moments, at the end of which the Dalai Lama gave him the name of Tenzin Lodoe, which will accompany him for the rest of his life.
Biography of Geshe Jampa Gyatso
Short biography (1931-2007)
Geshe Jampa Gyatso (Gyatso or Gyatzo), affectionately called “Geshe-la” by his disciples throughout his time at the Institute, was born in Tibet to a middle-class nomadic family in an area called Dham, near Lhasa. He received his aspiring monastic vows as a young boy, but remained with his family until he was thirteen. When he entered Sera Jey Monastic University to study, Geshe-la quickly befriended another young monk named Thubten Yeshe (who later became Lama Yeshe, the founder of the FPMT). Following the Chinese invasion, he fled to India in 1959, where he renewed his knowledge of the canonical texts in the Buxa Duar refugee camp. He later studied at the newly established University of Sanskrit Studies in Varanasi (ancient Benares) and finally at the Lower Tantric College. In 1972 he achieved the highest level of Geshe Lharampa, then the diploma of Acharya (Master) and the tantric title of Ngagrampa.
A few years later, after engaging in various projects of study and research in Buddhist philosophy, Geshe-la received a letter from his old friend Thubten Yeshe, asking him to come and teach in Europe. In 1980, after a period of teaching Westerners who had gathered at the monastery in Kopan (Nepal), he arrived at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute, where he remained until his passing in November 2007.
During his stay in Italy, Geshe-la held an enormous number of courses, of varying lengths, both at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute and in many other FPMT centers in Italy, Spain, France and England; in Italy he accepted numerous invitations to hold conferences in centers of non-Buddhist traditions and various cultural associations, and received a large number of people for private conversations. His infinite love, his intelligent compassion and his wisdom conquered hearts wherever he went, and many people began their own spiritual path with his loving guidance.
In addition to this intense activity, from 1983 to 1987 he completed the extended commentaries of three important Buddhist treatises (Abhisamayalankara, Madyamakavatara and Abhidharmakosha) and explained other important texts of Buddhist philosophy and psychology, as a body of study and meditation for the newly born Study Program for Geshe and Master-Instructors. From 1988 to 2004, Geshe-la taught all the treatises and texts of the first residential FPMT Masters Program and, from 2005 to 2007, with Geshe Tenzin Tenphel as assistant teacher, he explained the subjects of the first residential FPMT Basic Program.
Geshe-la was also the abbot of the Nalanda Monastery in France, which he visited periodically, the Takden Shedrup Dhargye Ling Monastery, and the Shenpen Samten Ling Convent, both of which were provisionally based at the Institute. He died on 27 November 2007, but remained in body in meditative absorption (tukdam) for a week, during which there were no signs of physical decomposition. His body was cremated on the premises of the Institute.
Lama Tsong Khapa, with a traditional Tibetan ceremony, on the very day of the annual celebration of the passing of Lama Tsong Khapa (1357 – 1419).
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