Geshe Lhadron (Chopa Tenzin Lhadron) is from Zanskar Valley in the Union Territory of Ladakh, India. At the age of 13 she received teachings and Kalachakara Initiation from His Holiness the Great XIV Dalai Lama at Duzin Podang Pipiting in Zanskar. His Holiness’s teachings and advice inspired her to make her journey to Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh to pursue the study of the essence of the Buddha’s teachings on Wisdom and Compassion, based in reason and logic.

She was fortunate to have the precious opportunity to join in the first group of nuns at Jamyang Choling Institute, an educational institute for Himalayan Buddhist Women in Dharamsala, India founded by Venerable Karma Lekshe Tsomo, an American nun. Starting from 1989, for about 23 years she received comprehensive education in the five major Buddhist philosophical texts of the ancient Indian Nalanda Buddhist Tradition from many great practitioners and learned teachers of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD) and Namgyal Monastery in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala. She enrolled in the first group of nuns who set in the historic Board of Geshema Degree examinations in 2013 and successfully completed them in 2016 and received the prestigious Geshe degree from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2016.

In addition, she was very fortunate to received many precious teachings, Empowerment and Initiations of Buddhist Tantric teachings from His Holiness the Great 14th Dalai Lama at the main Temple in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala as well as in other Buddhist sacred places such as Bodh Gaya in Bihar, Varanasi in UP, Amravati in Andhra Pradesh. She also attended most of the teachings, Empowerment and Initiations when His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave at Monastics Universities of Tibetan Buddhism in such as Sera, Drepung, Gaden, Tashi Lhunpo, Gyuto and Gyumed Tantric Colleges and different Tibetan Settlement in South India and Leh Ladakh. She has also participated National and International Conferences, seminars, Tibetan Religious Conferences, workshops and presented papers both in the West and in Asia.

Currently, she is serving as an Indian National Sangha Council member of the Indian Himalayan Council of Nalanda Buddhist Tradition and is involved with the work of the Himalayan Buddhist Culture Association, whose work is preserving and promoting the ancient Nalanda and Tibetan Buddhist Tradition in communities in the Indian Himalaya regions and elsewhere.

Geshe Lhadron believes that the Ancient Nalanda Buddhist Tradition is as vast as infinite space and as deep as the limitless ocean. Therefore, she is continuously studying with peerless teachers including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Geshe Dorji Damdul-la, as well as teaching others in the different Nunneries and individual students.

Venerable Losang Tendrol, a Chinese American nun, studied Buddhism with Dr. Jan Willis at Wesleyan University in the 1980s. She immersed herself in teachings given by the late Geshe Lhundup Sopa and the current Jangtse Choje Rinpoche Lobsang Tenzin at Deer Park in Madison, WI. In 2004, she completed FPMT's two-year Foundation of Buddhist Thought program. In 2008, she had the good fortune to receive novice ordination vows from Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa. With Rinpoche's encouragement, she studied the five great texts through the FPMT Masters Program (2008 - 2017).

Ven. Tendrol taught at the Guhyasamaja Center in northern Virginia from 2006 to 2018. Since 2016, Ven. Tendrol has offered classes at DNKL and has helped with pujas and special events. In her free time, Ven. Tendrol enjoys learning Tibetan, caring for shelter dogs, and gardening.

Geshe Thugje was born on March 4, 1972 in Bylakuppe, Karnataka in South India to a Tibetan refugee family. He took novice monastic vows and entered Sera Jey monastery in 1982 at the age of ten, where he began his academic career at the Sera Jey Secondary School. There he had the opportunity to learn foundational Tibetan studies, as well as English and Hindi language. He then entered the full Buddhist Philosophy, Logic, and Debate study program, which he completed in 2007, earning his Geshe degree.

From there, he moved to Moscow, Russia in 2008 to teach the Buddhadharma for the traditional Buddhist followers of the three Buddhist republics of Russia, as well as those from different backgrounds taking up a new interest in Buddhism. He has been teaching in Russia since then, splitting his time between Moscow and St. Petersburg, but is temporary uprooted due to the unstable situation of the Russia-Ukraine war. He continues to teach his students through online classes while he is unable to be physically present in Moscow.

Venerable Losang Donyo was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1987 and completed his primary education in central CT. After a Buddhist Studies study abroad program in Bodh Gaya, India, he went to receive basic Dharma education and training at Sravasti Abbey - one of the only residential Buddhist monastic training centers in North America - under the guidance of Venerable Thubten Chodron, from 2011-2013. In 2014, he moved to Dharamsala, India, where he studied Tibetan language and introductory logic, debate, and philosophy at the Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies.

After completing the initial two years of courses in the traditional Tibetan Buddhist educational system and taking monastic ordination, he transferred to Sera Jey Monastic University in South India. He is now in the 8th year of the Geshe studies program (a 25-year course of study) and enjoys developing programs for English speakers to learn the Tibetan style of logic-based debate (aka Nalanda Tradition debate).