# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kelsang-gyatso
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:40.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kelsang-gyatso"
name: "Kelsang Gyatso"
slug: "kelsang-gyatso"
description: "Geshe Kelsang Gyatso was a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher, scholar, and author. He was the founder and spiritual director of the New Kadampa Tradition, a registered non-profit, modern Buddhist organization and new religious movement that emerged from the Gelugpa school. It currently lists more than 1,300 affiliated centres in over 25 countries."
tagline: "Tibetan writer and lama (1931–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Kadampa_Temple_for_World_Peace_Spain.jpg/330px-Kadampa_Temple_for_World_Peace_Spain.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931"
deathDate: "2022-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.496048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kelsang_Gyatso"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsang_Gyatso_(Neue_Kadampa-Tradition)"
    title: "Kelsang Gyatso (Neue Kadampa-Tradition)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsang_Gyatso"
    title: "Kelsang Gyatso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geshe_Kelsang_Gyatso"
    title: "Geshe Kelsang Gyatso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsang_Gyatso"
    title: "Kelsang Gyatso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsang_Gyatso"
    title: "Kelsang Gyatso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsang_Gyatso"
    title: "Kelsang Gyatso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A0%BC%E6%A1%91%E5%98%89%E6%8E%AA_(%E6%96%B0%E5%99%B6%E7%95%B6%E5%B7%B4)"
    title: "格桑嘉措 (新噶當巴)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1353874"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump