Gelek Rimpoche

{{Infobox religious biography | honorific-prefix = | name = Nawang Gelek Rimpoche | honorific-suffix = | native_name = སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དགེ་ལེགས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། | native_name_lang = Tibetan | image = Gelek Rimpoche.jpeg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Gelek Rinpoche | sanskrit = | kunya = | religion = Tibetan Buddhist | denomination = | school = Drepung Monastery | lineage = | sect = | subsect = | temple = | order = Gelug | institute = | church =  | alma_mater = | other_names = Nyakre Khentrul Rinpoche, Kyabje Ngwang Gehlek Rimpoche, Gehlek Rimpoche, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche | dharma_names =  | monastic_name = | pen_name = | posthumous_name = | nationality = Tibetan | home_town = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|10|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Lhasa, Tibet | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|02|15|1939|10|26|df=y}} | death_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | spouse = | children = | parents = | location = | title = Lama | period = | consecration = | predecessor = | successor = | reason = | rank = | teacher = Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, Khensur Denma Locho Rinpoche, Song Rinpoche | reincarnation_of = | students = Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Cyndi Lee, Joe Liozzo, Glenn Mullin, Robert Thurman | initiated = | works = | ordination = | initiation = | initiation_date = | initiation_place = | initiator = | profession = teacher | previous_post = | present_post = | post = | website =  | background =  }} '''Kyabje Nawang Gehlek Rimpoche''' ({{bo|t=སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དགེ་ལེགས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།|w=skyabs rje dge legs rin po che/}}) was a Tibetan Buddhist lama born in Lhasa, Tibet on October 26, 1939. His personal name was Gelek; ''kyabje'' and ''rimpoche'' are titles meaning "teacher" (lit., "lord of refuge") and "precious," respectively; he is known to Tibetans as '''Nyakre Khentrul Rinpoche'''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oral history interview of Gelek Rimpoche-Nyare Khentrü |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2020705926/ |website=loc.gov |publisher=US Library of Congress |access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref> According to Thupten Jinpa, principal English translator to the Dalai Lama, he is considered {{blockquote|"an important link to the great lineages of Tibet's great masters, especially of the Geluk school. Known more famously for the Tibetans as Nyakre Khentrul Rinpoche, Rinpoche had been instrumental in reprinting many of the Geluk texts in the 1970s, and also remained an important object of affection for both Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. Of course, his emergence as one of the great Tibetan teachers in the West has also been a source of inspiration for many."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Craig |title=Respected Tibetan Teacher Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche Dies |url=https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/respected-tibetan-teacher-kyabje-gelek-rinpoche-dies |accessdate=1 October 2018 |publisher=Buddhistdoor Global |date=February 16, 2017}}</ref>}} Known for his memory, intellectual insight, familiarity with modern culture, and effectiveness as a teacher of Western practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, Rimpoche taught in English without a translator, claiming he learned "English watching the soap opera Days of Our Lives."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Magill|first1=Mark|title=Remembering Gelek Rimpoche|url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/remembering-gelek-rimpoche/|website=tricycle.org|publisher=The Tricycle Foundation|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Gelek Rimpoche was recognized at the age of four as a tulku, an incarnate lama. He was "recognized as the incarnation of one of the Gyuto Tantric College abbots called Tashi Namgyal. I believe I was recognized by the late Pabongka Dechen Nyingpo – the famous Pabongka." His father was the 10th Demo Rinpoche and his uncle was the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. He received the highest scholastic degree of Geshe Lharampa, equivalent to a PhD, at the exceptionally young age of twenty, at Drepung Monastic University which he attended from the age of four to twenty.<ref name="fpmt">{{cite web|title=Gelek Rinpoche|url=https://fpmt.org/mandala/archives/older/mandala-issues-for-1999/may/gelek-rinpoche/|website=fpmt.org/mandala/archives|publisher=Mandala Magazine, FPMT|accessdate=9 March 2018}}</ref>

He was educated alongside the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso who said "he completed his traditional Buddhist training as a monk in Tibet prior to the Chinese Takeover."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/goodlifegooddeat0000nawa|url-access=registration|quote=Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation.|title=Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation|last=Gehlek|first=Nawang|publisher=Riverhead Books|year=2001|isbn=9781573221962|location=New York|pages=Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama}}</ref> Rimpoche was tutored by many of Tibet's greatest teachers including the 14th Dalai Lama's senior and junior tutors, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, who sent him to the West to teach, and Denma Locho Rinpoche and Song Rinpoche.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Larson |first1=Kay |title=When Buddha Chooses to Be a Woman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/arts/design/when-buddha-chooses-to-be-a-woman.html |access-date=14 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=August 7, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Tworkov|first1=Helen|title=A Lama for All Seasons: An Interview with Gelek Rinpoche|url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/lama-all-seasons/|website=tricycle.org|publisher=Tricycle Magazine|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref>

==Exile== In 1959, ten days after the Dalai Lama fled to India, Gelek Rimpoche led a large group of Tibetans from Tibet into exile in India. {{blockquote|"They were stalled at the foot of the Himalayas. Only a few miles away, over a cluster of four peaks, lay Arunachal Pradesh in India, and freedom. Time and time again throughout the day members of the group tried the treacherous climb, yet they were unable to find passage. To get here they had traversed mile after mile of rugged terrain while strafed by Chinese aircraft. There was no turning back. Tired, hungry and cold, they sought advice from an incarnate lama who had joined their exodus – nineteen-year-old Nawang Gehlek Rinpoche.

"I sat there and looked at the situation, I don't know if it was a coincidence or the effects of a flu shot or common sense, but I saw that the range had four peaks and I thought we should zigzag across to the farthest one on the right. So I happened to be the one to suggest that route and the people began to follow me." "The route he suggested became a major route for tens of thousands in the coming decades."<ref name="journey">{{cite news |last1=Kain |first1=John |title=Gehlek Rinpoche's Remarkable Journey |url=https://www.lionsroar.com/gehlek-rinpoches-remarkable-journey/ |accessdate=31 October 2020 |publisher=Lion's Roar |date=July 1, 2002}}</ref>}}

He then settled at a temporary camp with other lamas and monks in Buxa, India, where his education continued, although "there were no books, and classes had to be taught from memory only."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brentano |first1=Robyn |title=BUXA CHOGAR: Saving Tibetan Buddhism in Exile |url=https://tibethouse.us/buxa-chogar-saving-tibetan-buddhism-exile/ |access-date=2 January 2021 |agency=Tibet House US |publisher=Mandala, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition |date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> He was one of the first students of the Young Lamas Home School.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mackenzie|first1=Vicki|title=The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun|date=March 28, 2017|publisher=Shambhala|isbn=978-1611804256|page=102|url=https://www.shambhala.com/the-life-of-freda-bedi.html|accessdate=9 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Namgyal |first1=Tsewang |title=Foundations for a Modern Tibet |url=http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=25201&t=1 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |publisher=Phayul |date=July 27, 2009}}</ref>

Later, he relinquished monastic life. "Many other Rinpoches, including Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Kyabje Ling Rinpoche, told me, "Even though you didn't remain as a monk, it doesn't mean you've resigned as a rinpoche." They told me I still have to carry the banner of Buddhism. So that's how it is."<ref name="fpmt" /> He was named director of Tibet House in New Delhi, India, in 1965. In the 1970s, he served as head of Tibetan services and as a radio host at All India Radio.<ref>{{cite web|title=Remembering a Great Teacher: the learned and inspiring Gelek Rimpoche of Jewel Heart International left behind a sparkling jewel of Dharma teachings|url=https://buddhaweekly.com/great-teacher-passed-learned-inspiring-gelek-rimpoche-jewel-heart-international-passed-away/|website=buddhaweekly.com|date=15 February 2017 |publisher=Buddha Weekly|accessdate=9 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="journey" /> He preserved over 170 volumes of rare Tibetan manuscripts that would have otherwise been lost and conducted over 1000 interviews, compiling an oral history of the fall of Tibet to Communist China that is in the US Library of Congress' Tibetan Oral History Archive Project.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lama Choepa Tsok Offering Puja Gelek Rinpoche |url=https://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1412896274 |accessdate=31 October 2020 |agency=Drepung Loseling Monastery Center |publisher=drepung.org |date=February 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tibetan Oral History Archive Project |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/tibetan-oral-history-project/ |website=loc.gov |publisher=US Library Of Congress |accessdate=31 October 2020}}</ref> In 1964, he was an exchange student at Cornell University.<ref name="journey" />

==Life in the west== Rimpoche moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1987 to teach Buddhism at the request of two local women, Aura Glaser and Sandra Finkel, who met him on a trip to India during the mid-1980s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gehlek |first1=Rimpoche Nawang |title=Good Life, Good Death |date=October 1, 2002 |publisher=Riverhead Books, Penguin Random House |location=New York, New York |isbn=9781573229524 |page=175 |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/290965/good-life-good-death-by-rimpoche-nawang-gehlek-foreword-by-dalai-lama/9781573229524/ |access-date=13 February 2024}}</ref> He first taught in Ann Arbor in 1985. He helped a Case Western Reserve professor write a book on Tibetan history for two years in Cleveland, then moved to Ann Arbor. In 1988, with Glaser and Finkel, he founded and was president of [https://www.jewelheart.org/ Jewel Heart], a nonprofit "spiritual, cultural, and humanitarian organization that translates the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism into contemporary life," in Ann Arbor, which has expanded to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Chicago, Cleveland, Nebraska, New York, Malaysia, and The Netherlands. The Dalai Lama visited Jewel Heart in Ann Arbor in 2008.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Larcom |first1=Geoff S. |last2=Thompson |first2=Leisa |title=The Dalai Lama's long road to Ann Arbor: Invitation was issued almost 14 years ago |url=https://www.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/04/the_dalai_lamas_long_road_to_a.html |access-date=14 February 2024 |publisher=The Ann Arbor News |date=April 12, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gruner |first1=John |last2=Leisa Thompson |first2=Leisa Thompson |title=Dalai Lama accepts 14-year standing invitation, returns to Midwest this weekend |url=https://www.cleveland.com/lifestyles/2008/04/dalai_lama_accepts_14year_stan.html |access-date=14 February 2024 |publisher=The Plain Dealer |date=April 18, 2008}}</ref>

Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was among the more prominent of Jewel Heart's members. Ginsberg met with Gelek Rinpoche through the modern composer Philip Glass in 1989, and they became great friends.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Silliman |first1=Daniel |title=A woman who married God, a chess-playing priest and 10 more fascinating religious figures who died in 2017 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/12/28/a-woman-who-married-god-a-chess-playing-priest-and-10-more-fascinating-religious-figures-who-died-in-2017/ |accessdate=1 October 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gelek Rinpoche's Birthday! |url=https://allenginsberg.org/2011/10/gelek-rinpoches-birthday-2/ |website=allenginsberg.org |date=26 October 2011 |publisher=The Allen Ginsberg Project |accessdate=31 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Lifeline |work=Allen Ginsberg dot org |accessdate=2013-08-18 |url=http://www.allenginsberg.org/lifeline.php/2.cfm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927063343/http://www.allenginsberg.org/lifeline.php/2.cfm |archivedate=September 27, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Di Prima |first1=Diane |title=Lust for Life |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-18-bk-59838-story.html |access-date=14 February 2024 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=May 18, 1997}}</ref> Allen and Philip jointly staged benefits for the Jewel Heart organization. Professor Robert Thurman, Joe Liozzo, and Glenn Mullin, are also Jewel Heart members and frequent lecturers.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Liozzo|first1=Joe|title=Celebrating Gelek Rimpoche|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/celebrating-gelek-rimpoche_us_58a85b67e4b026a89a7a2bb8|website=huffingtonpost.com|date=18 February 2017 |publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=9 March 2018}}</ref> Cyndi Lee also teaches at Jewel Heart.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Cyndi |title=The Complete Package: Meditation and Yoga |url=https://www.lionsroar.com/the-complete-package-meditation-and-yoga/ |access-date=13 February 2024 |publisher=Lion's Roar |date=July 22, 2021}}</ref> Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, Venerable Thubten Chodron, and Michael Imperioli were also students of Rimpoche's.<ref>{{cite web |title=Remembering Gelek Rimpoche |url=https://www.jewelheart.org/remembrance/ |website=jewelheart.org |publisher=Jewel Heart |access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Andrea |title=Wise Guy |url=https://www.lionsroar.com/wise-guy-november-2011/ |access-date=13 February 2024 |publisher=Lion's Roar |date=3 February 2021}}</ref> He became an American citizen in July 1994.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Norbu |first1=Konchog |title=Trailer: New documentary celebrates "The American Rimpoche"; June premieres in NY, DC |url=https://www.lionsroar.com/trailer-new-documentary-celebrates-the-american-rimpoche-june-premieres-in-ny-dc/ |accessdate=1 October 2018 |publisher=Lion's Roar Foundation |date=March 20, 2014}}</ref>

Gelek Rinpoche died on February 15, 2017, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after undergoing surgery the previous month.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Office of Tibet Mourns the Passing of Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche|url=http://tibetoffice.org/media-press/news/office-tibet-mourns-demise-kyabje-gelek-rinpoche|website=tibetoffice.org|publisher=The Office of Tibet, Washington, DC|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Biddlecombe|first1=Wendy Joan|title=Tibetan Buddhist Lama Gelek Rimpoche Has Died|url=https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/tibetan-buddhist-lama-gelek-rimpoche-died/|accessdate=December 31, 2017|publisher=Tricycle|date=February 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Meade Sperry|first1=Rod|title=Remembering Gelek Rimpoche, Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author (1939-2017)|url=https://www.lionsroar.com/remebering-gelek-rimpoche-tibetan-buddhist-teacher-and-author-1939-2017/|website=lionsroar.com|publisher=Lion's Roar Foundation|accessdate=31 December 2017}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lewis|first1=Craig|title=Respected Tibetan Teacher Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche Dies|url=https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/respected-tibetan-teacher-kyabje-gelek-rinpoche-dies|website=buddhistdoor.net|publisher=Buddhistdoor Global|accessdate=22 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jewel Heart: Remembering the Life of Gelek Rimpoche|url=https://beherenownetwork.com/jewel-heart-remembering-gelek-rimpoche/|website=beherenownetwork.com|date=16 February 2017 |publisher=Be Here Now Network|accessdate=9 March 2018}}</ref>

Demo Rinpoche, Rimpoche's nephew, has served as Jewel Heart's Resident Spiritual Director, since 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Demo Rinpoche |url=https://www.jewelheart.org/demo-rinpoche/ |website=.jewelheart.org |publisher=Jewel Heart |access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gauding |first1=Madonna |title=Bringing Youthful New Leadership to Jewel Heart: The Crazy Wisdom Interview with Spiritual Director Demo Rinpoche |url=https://www.crazywisdomjournal.com/featuredstories/2021/8/22/skalyn8sv7au0he3y0cb9ywg5sw9he |access-date=9 June 2022 |issue=78 |publisher=Crazy Wisdom Journal |date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>

In 2021 Tibet House US in New York City, partnered with the [https://allenginsberg.org/ Allen Ginsberg estate], and Jewel Heart International, on ''Transforming Minds: Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche and Friends'', a gallery show, video, and eventually online exhibition, of photos and drawings by Allen Ginsberg with whom Rimpoche had an "indissoluble bond," exemplifying the "transformational nature of this time in US history."<ref>{{cite web |title=Transforming Minds |url=https://www.jewelheart.org/transforming-minds/ |website=jewelheart.org/ |publisher=Jewel Heart International |access-date=8 February 2024}}</ref> "Fifty negatives guided by Allen's extensive notes on the contact sheets and images he'd circled with the intention to print," featured images of Rimpoche with friends, including "other great Tibetan masters, including Ribur Rimpoche and Khyongla Rato Rimpoche, images we had not known about," and "monks, Tibetologists, friends, and students, including Philip Glass, artist Francesco Clemente, founder of Tibet House US, Robert Thurman, poet Anne Waldman, and songwriter, singer, and poet, Patti Smith."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spiegel |first1=Alison |title=Inside the New Allen Ginsberg Photography Exhibit at Tibet House US |url=https://tricycle.org/article/allen-ginsberg-exhibit/ |access-date=3 November 2022 |publisher=Tricycle Magazine |date=September 29, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Paljor Chatag |first1=Ben |title=Curatorial Reflections on 'Transforming Minds: Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche and Friends, Photographs by Allen Ginsberg 1989-1997' |journal=Yeshe, A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities |date=2022 |volume=2 |issue=1 |url=https://yeshe.org/curatorial-reflections-on-transforming-minds-kyabje-gelek-rimpoche-and-friends-photographs-by-allen-ginsberg-1989-1997/ |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Transforming Minds: Kyabje Gelek Rimnpohce and Friends |url=https://www.jewelheart.org/events/transforming-minds-kyabje-gelek-rimpoche-and-friends-photographs-by-allen-ginsberg/ |website=jewelheart.org |publisher=Jewel Heart |access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref>

==Publications== Gehlek Rimpoche assisted Melvyn C. Goldstein in his writing of ''A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 1: The Demise of the Lamaist State, 1913-1951''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beckwith |first1=CI |title=Journal Article: Melvyn C. Goldstein. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. Assisted by Gelek Rimpoche. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1989. |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=96 |issue=2, April 1991 |pages=582–583 |doi= 10.1086/ahr/96.2.582 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/96/2/582/110932 |access-date=14 February 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 2001, Rimpoche's teaching with many biographical details, ''Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation'', with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, and an introduction by Robert Thurman, was published. "Buddhist readers will cheer about this fresh voice, and even those who don't believe in reincarnation will find something valuable in this short meditation on death.<ref>{{cite news |title=Starred: GOOD LIFE, GOOD DEATH: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781573221962 |access-date=14 February 2024 |publisher=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>

Many of Rimpoche's teachings since the mid 1980s, including intermediate and vajrayana lightly edited transcripts and books, are available.<ref>{{cite web |title=Transcripts |url=https://www.jewelheart.org/transcripts/ |website=jewelheart.org |access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref>

==Archive== The Gelek Rimpoche Archive, "arguably are the largest, or one of the largest collections of authentic Tibetan Buddhist teachings in English of a Tibetan master," was established online by the Gelek Rimpoche Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Gelek Rimpoche |url=https://gelekrimpoche.org/about-gelek-rimpoche/ |website=gelekrimpoche.org |publisher=Gelek Rimpoche Foundation |access-date=7 February 2024}}</ref> Free of charge, the archive contains more than five hundred teachings and more informal talks comprising over 1800 video and 2900 audio files, often accompanied by searchable verbatim and compiled transcripts.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Archive |url=https://gelekrimpoche.org/about-the-archive/ |website=gelekrimpoche.org |publisher=Gelek Rimpoche Foundation |access-date=7 February 2024}}</ref>

==Selected bibliography== *''Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation'', (with Gini Alhadeff and Mark Magill, foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, introduction by Robert Thurman), Riverhead Books, 2001, {{ISBN|1-57322-196-1}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Good life, good death : Tibetan wisdom on reincarnation |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2001041625&searchType=1&permalink=y |website=catalog.loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=15 February 2024}}</ref> *''The Tara Box: Rituals for Protection and Healing From the Female Buddha'' (with Brenda Rosen), New World Library, 2004, {{ISBN|1-57731-461-1}} *''Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar'' (with Melvyn C. Goldstein, Lobsang Phuntshog), University of California Press, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0520076228}}, {{ISBN|0520076222}} *''How the Mind Works'', Jewel Heart, 2016, {{ASIN|B01H2MXIDE}} *''Perfection of Wisdom: An Essential Explanation of the Mantra and the Five Paths'', 2014, {{ASIN|B00KCX3IUE}} *''The Three Principles of the Path: A Brief Explanation'', Jewel Heart, 2014, {{ASIN|B00KDIZBZ8}} *''Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: Chapter 3; Full Acceptance of the Awakening Mind'', Jewel Heart, 2013, {{ASIN|B00BUVLZNE}} *''37 Wings of Change'', Jewel Heart, 2012, {{ASIN|B006WFKPUM}} *''Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: Chapter 6; Patience'', Jewel Heart, 2010, {{ASIN|B00BUYYN3U}} *''The Four Mindfulnesses: On the Basis of a Poem by the Seventh Dalai Lama with Commentary by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche'', Jewel Heart, 2009, {{ISBN|193499409X}} *''The Four Noble Truths'', Jewel Heart, 2009, {{ISBN|1934994057}} *''Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: Chapter 7; Enthusiasm'', Jewel Heart, 2008, {{ASIN|B00BUYYN58}} *''GOM: A Course In Meditation'', Jewel Heart, 2005, {{ASIN|B004N84VLE}} *''Lam Rim: Foundations of the Path'', Jewel Heart, 2005, {{ASIN|B00KD3OOLU}} *''Transforming Negativities'', Jewel Heart, 2004, {{ASIN|B004N63770}} *'' Catalogue : first exhibition in new Tibet House,'' (with Gyaltsen Yeshey, Nicholas Ribush, Trisha Donnelly); Tibet House, New Delhi, India, 1979, OCLC Number: 37437276

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==External links== * [http://www.jewelheart.org/gelek-rimpoche/ Biography of Gelek Rimpoche], from Jewel Heart * [https://www.jewelheart.org/remembrance/ ''Remembering Gelek Rimpoche''], from Jewel Heart * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_fxhhrB8d4/ Gelek Rimpoche White Tara Guided Meditation], Gelek Rimpoche leads a guided meditation on the healing and compassionate activity of Tara. * [https://www.jewelheart.org/transforming-minds// ''The Great Debate – Gelek Rimpoche and Robert Thurman''], Cooper Union, New York City, 2003 * [https://www.lionsroar.com/enlightenment-in-female-form/ ''Enlightenment in Female Form''], by Gelek Rimpoche, Lion's Roar, February 17, 2017 * [https://www.lionsroar.com/author/gelek-rimpoche/ Gelek Rimpoche author's page], Lion's Roar * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzBKYdtGbcs Big Love: Gelek Rimpoche on Dharma in the West], 1982 interview by Robyn Brentano, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, FPMT *{{Cite web |title=An Audience With Kyabje Gelek Rinpoche |work=Official Website of His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche |accessdate=2013-08-18 |url=http://v7.tsemtulku.com/news/ladrang-news/an-audience-with-kyabje-gelek-rinpoche/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130818160456/http://v7.tsemtulku.com/news/ladrang-news/an-audience-with-kyabje-gelek-rinpoche/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-08-18 }} *{{Cite web | title = The Four Noble Truths: Online Retreat with Gelek Rimpoche | work = Tricycle Magazine | accessdate = 2013-08-18 | url = http://www.tricycle.com/online-retreats/four-noble-truths }} *[http://appinoproductions.com/americanrimpoche/#.WCqCVdyREo8 ''American Rimpoche''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219093601/http://appinoproductions.com/americanrimpoche/#.WCqCVdyREo8 |date=2017-02-19}} documentary film about the life of Gelek Rimpoche *[https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/rubin-museum-show-to-trace-francesco-clementes-indian-inspirations/ "Rubin Museum Show to Trace Francesco Clemente's Indian Inspirations"] New York Times article describes Francesco Clemente's "series ''Clemente × 8'', a group of 90-minute discussions between Clemente and eight people he regards as masters in other fields: the musicians Patti Smith and Nas; the chef Eric Ripert; the directors Alfonso Cuarón, Robert Lepage and David Chase; the architect Billie Tsien; and Gelek Rimpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist lama to whom Mr. Clemente is particularly close."

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