Tulku Tashi Gyaltsan Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual leader of the Dorje Ling Buddhist Centers, located in the New York & Georgia in the U.S., Nepal, and Taiwan. Rinpoche is recognized as the reincarnation of Jetsun Taranatha and as the throne-holder of the 700-year-old Jonang Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche was born in Amdo-Golok, Tibet. Witnesses of his birth recount that the first sound he uttered was the Guru Siddhi Mantra.
After high school graduation, he abandoned the temporary pleasures of the material world and began his training in the Lomgyappp Monastery, in Tibet. While at Lungkya Monastery His Holiness Penam Rinpoche, the supreme head of the Jonang Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, recognized Tashi Rinpoche as the incarnation of Jetsun Taranatha, a famous scholar and yogi in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. From 1984 to 1991 Rinpoche completed his studies of the doctrine in the subjects of Sutra and Tantra. During this same period of time, he completed his solitary retreat of 3 years, 1 month and 15 days on the Six-Branch Yoga of the Kalachakra.
In 1991 he came to the United States and formed the Dorje Ling Buddhist Center in Brooklyn, New York, and later formed the center by the same name here, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1996 he established a school and orphanage in Nepal. He also established a home for the elderly where they can receive necessary care. In an effort to preserve the Jonang Tradition, he built a large stupa and helped rebuild the monastery in Gandhi, Golok, and has preserved and reprinted many traditional texts and teachings to make them available for people in his homeland.
In October of 1999, Rinpoche was inaugurated as the throne holder of the Jonang Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism at the Zemtong Monastery in Tibet. Because of his kind effort, the 700-year-old tradition of Jonang has taken root in American soil for the first time. He is dedicated to making Dharma available in his home country and abroad. It is with a pure motivation and compassion that he wishes to benefit others.