Geshe Ngawang Wangyal

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Geshe Ngawang Wangyal

Geshe Ngawang Wangyal (1901-1983) — a Kalmyk-Mongolian lama who who was the first to come to America and teach in 1955. He established the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in 1958 in New Jersey as the first Tibetan Buddhist Dharma centre in the West.