Our Buddhist teachers
Lama Jampa Thaye
Born 1952-
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Dharma teacher of the Karma Kagyu and Sakya Schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Spiritual Director of the Dechen Community a world-wide network of Buddhist centres.
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His appointment as a Lama came after many years of extensive study and practice as a student of some of the greatest teachers in Tibetan Buddhism such as his principle masters, His Holiness Sakya Gongma Trichen and Karma Thinley Rinpoche.
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Lama Jampa Thaye has become well known and highly respected for the way in which he selects topics to reflect the individual needs of his audience whilst addressing current circumstances in our ever changing world. With a busy program of teachings regularly taking him around the world including a twice yearly visit to Yorkshire.​​
Lama Jampa Thaye is visiting Harrogate
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Lama Jampa is a celebrated author of several books on Buddhism, with his own dedicated YouTube and SoundCloud channel.
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He is married with a family and lives in London
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Lama Karma Thinley Rinpoche
Born 25th May 1931 in Nangchen, Tibet
At a tender age of eighteen months old Lama Karma Thinley Rinpoche was recognised as an incarnate Lama of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. Some years later he was identified as the fourth in the line of the famous master Karma Thinley by His Holiness the 16th Karmapa.​​
As an eminent teacher of the Sakya and Kagyu Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche has travelled extensively teaching the dharma. Over his lifetime he has established many Buddhist centres throughout the world, which serve as very important places where people have the opportunity to learn about the Buddha’s teachings.
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The Dechen Buddhist Community of which we belong was founded by Karma Thinley Rinpoche with the sole purpose to help make available to people the authentic teachings of the Buddha.
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Alongside the establishment of dharma centres, Rinpoche holds the responsibility of abbot to a nunnery in Nepal called Tegshen Legshey Ling.
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An accomplished poet and artist who is greatly skilled in the graceful written art form of calligraphy of which ‘Compassion’, is a beautiful example.
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Karma Thinley Rinpoche’s great accomplishments and many responsibilities help to ensure that the dharma continues to prosper for all of us who have an interest in Buddhism and wish to apply the teachings of the Buddha into our daily lives.
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