 Khyongla Rato has taught at the Tibet Center for almost 40 years.Geshe Nicholas Vreeland, Khen Rinpoche, the current director of The Tibet Center, is the first westerner to be made abbot of a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Rato Dratsang, which was re-established in Karnataka, India.Khen Rinpoche holds a Ser Tri Geshe Degree from Rato.