Jampa Gendun

Jampa (Gendun) Jaffe is American by birth. He was a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for seventeen years and studied for over fourteen years in India at the Tibetan Library of Works and Archives and the Buddhist School of Dialectics. This was then followed by a year of meditation in various monasteries in Thailand. He has been teaching Buddhism for over twenty years beginning in 1987 - 1995 at Buddha House, South Australia, where he also served as Tibetan interpreter, then in 1996 at Chenrezig Institute, Queensland and in 1997 - 2004 Jampa was the teaching assistant in the FPMT’s Masters Program at Lama Tsongkhapa Institute, Italy. In 2005 he completed a solitary one year retreat. He then returned to Buddha House as resident teacher and remained there up to May of 2009. He now lives in New South Wales.