Rinpoche then completed his Acharya (Master's) Degree in Buddhist philosophy at Varanasi Sanskrit University in 1975, at which time he was sent to Southeast Asia by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to study vipassana mediatation and Theravada Buddhist traditions in the forest temples of Thailand. In mid?1976, Rinpoche moved to Australia to translate and teach at the Chenrezig Institute for Wisdom Culture at the request of Lama Thubten Yeshe.

In 1980, Zasep Rinpoche accepted the invitation of his Canadian students and came to British Columbia. That autumn, during the visit to Toronto of H.H. the Dalai Lama and H.H. Ling Rinpoche, Toronto's first Gelugpa centre was created. H.H. Ling Rinpoche bestowed the name "Gaden Choling Mahayan Buddhist Meditation Centre" and appointed Zasep Rinpoche as the resident teacher. Over the past decade Rinpoche has given numerous teachings, discourses, commentaries, initiations and meditation retreats at Gaden Choling for students at all levels. He has given the private instruction to individual students.

Since Zasep Rinpoche's arrival in North America, his students have started six other centres: Zuru Ling - Vancouver; Tashi Choling - Nelson; Chittamani Meditation Centre - Ottawa; Potala Meditation Centre - Thunder Bay, Ontario; Gold Blue Lotus Tara - Moscow Idaho
Je Tsong Khapa - Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Rinpoche travels to teach at each of these centres as well as to his affiliated centres in Australia

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