Geshe
Ngawang Dhargyey (1921-1995) was born in the Trehor district
of Kham in eastern Tibet and studied at the local Dhargye
Monastery until he was eighteen, when he went to Sera
Monastery, in Lhasa. He went into exile in 1959 and in
1971 was appointed chief Dharma teacher at the Library
of Tibetan Works and Archives. He remained there until
he moved to New Zealand in 1985, where he passed away
ten years later. Read
a more detailed biography here. |