Teachers
Teachings at Chag Tong Chen Tong are based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our Founder the late Lama Thubten Yeshe and Spiritual Director Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
Our Greatest Inspiration
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the temporal head of the 
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism http://www.dalailama.com/
PRAISE TO HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Advice Concerning Dolgyal (Shugden Practice)
FPMT Founder Lama Thubten Yeshe
Tribute from Professor Jeffrey Hopkins ...
"... His magnificence was the result, not of a special innate endowment, but of special hard work at embodying and expressing altruistic attitudes. Thus, our learning those teachings within working hard to embody and express them is, it seems to me, the most suitable form of memory of him.
Given the variety and complexity of the Tibetan teachings and the present crucial point in their history, it is important that we realize how much responsibility for the continued availability of this teaching even one person can assume. It is clear that Lama Yeshe did not wait for others to work at incorporating the doctrine; it is clear that he did not view the dharma as a spectator sport, watching someone else and then second-guessing. Instead, it is clear that he decided that he would do what he could do. He showed what a difference a single person with sincere motivation can make. Even those who, like myself, were not formal students of Lama Yeshe, still have much to learn from his activities of compassionate energy."
Personal tributes of Lama from friends and students http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/yeshe/tributes.html
FPMT Spiritual Director Kyabje Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
A JOINT BIOGRAPHY OF LAMA YESHE and LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE
http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/yeshe/jointbio.html
Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditator who for over 30 years has overseen the spiritual activities of the extensive worldwide network of centers, projects and services that form the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) which he founded with Lama Thubten Yeshe.
Rinpoche has set in motion a host of Vast Visions for the FPMT organization that will span generations to accomplish. These include the proliferation of many charitable projects and beneficial activities and .......
Lama Tsongkhapa
Lama Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) was the founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Tsongkhapa was born in 1357 in the Tsongkha valley of Amdo province in northeast Tibet. The miraculous events that occurred at his birth aroused the interest of the master Chöje Döndrup Rinchen (Chos rje Don grub rin chen), who had studied and lived in central Tibet and who founded two monasteries in Amdo after his return there. When Tsongkhapa was three this master gave a gift of livestock to his father and requested that he should be put in charge of Tsongkhapa's education. At the age of seven Tsongkhapa went to live with I Chöje Döndrup Rinchen, from whom he received many teachings and tantric empowerments. Having learned to read and write with great ease, Tsongkhapa both studied and practiced meditation from a very early age. When he was eight years old he received ordination as a novice monk and was given the name Losang Drakpa (Blo bzang grags pa).......
