Gelong Lodro Sangpo

Gelong Lodrö Sangpo (Jürgen Balzer) is the Director and President of Karma Changchub Ling, a monastic center of the Karma Kagyü lineage in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a student of the late Ven. Trungpa Rinpoche, having received his first ordination in the Karma Kagyu Sangha in 1984, France, and later Gampo Abbey, Canada. From 1985-2002 he served as Secretary of International Kagyu Sangha Association of Buddhist Monks and Nuns. He completed the traditional three year retreat in 1996 and a four year study retreat in 2003. He also served for a few years as Acting Director of Gampo Abbey. He was one of the Co-founders of Nitartha Institute and is a senior teacher at the Vidyadhara Institute, the monastic college of Gampo Abbey, since its inception.   His focus of study is in the systematic traditions of Buddhist abhidharma. He is the general editor and main translator of The Collected Works of Louis de La Vallée Poussin, of which Volume I: Abhidharmakośa-Bhāṣya of Vasubandhu, was published in 2012, and Volume II: Vijñapti-mātratā-siddhi. A Commentary (Cheng WishLun) on Vasubandhu’s Triṃśikā by Xuanzang, was published in 2017.