Gelong Thubten
Buddhist monk and meditation teacher
Gelong Thubten is a meditation teacher and Buddhist monk from the United Kingdom. He wrote A Monk's Guide to Happiness.
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About Gelong Thubten
Gelong Thubten studied at Oxford University and then worked as an actor in London and New York. At 21 he burned out, and he went on to enter Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, where he was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He has spent 25 years in training, with six of those years given to intensive meditation retreats. He has taught mindfulness to people in schools, hospitals, prisons, addiction counseling services and businesses.