Ngawang Wangyal

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Geshe Ngawang Wangyal, Kalmyk lama, teacher and scholar was born in a Kalmykia, came to the United States from Tibet in 1955, taking over the spiritual leadership of the Kalmuk Buddhist Temple and community near Freehold, N.J..

He later taught at Columbia University and during the 1960's and 1970's, he sponsored visits by several monks and lamas from the Tibetan emigre settlement in India and instructed them in English so they could serve the Buddhist community in the United States.

Dr. Wangyal translated two volumes of popular Tibetan and Sanskrit stories illustrative of Buddhist teachings, The Door of Liberation and The Prince Who Became a Cuckoo.

Geshe Wangyal and Brian cutillo also translated the "Illuminations of Sakya-Pandita" published by (LOTSAWA 1988). The book is now out-of-print. ISBN 0-932156-05-3

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