Venerable Tenzin Tsapel

Teacher

Venerable Tenzin Tsapel first met our founding lamas, Lama Yeshe and Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche in 1979 and with Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s guidance she ordained as a Buddhist nun with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1985. She was the resident teacher at Chandrakirti Centre and at an FPMT centre in Darkhan, Mongolia. She helped establish Chenrezig Institute’s Buddhist Study Program. She is the currently the senior nun at Machig Labdron Nunnery on the same site as Atisha Centre, The Great Stupa, and Thubten Shedrub Ling monastery in Bendigo, Victoria.