Lama Jampa Thaye

In October 2019, Lama Jampa served on the advisory committee for Buddhism Exhibition at British library, London, and was the guest speaker at the Private View Reception for the exhibition.

Lama Jampa’s teaching approach follows the long-established and traditional style of Tibetan Buddhist masters down the ages. He stresses the established historical approach to Vajrayana practice so as to sustain the authentic, continuing transmission of its intellectual and experiential aspects.

Lama Jampa Thaye is spiritual director of a network of dharma centres, founded under the authority of Karma Thinley Rinpoche, which bear the name "Dechen" (Tibetan for 'Great Bliss'). As of December 2012, there were 21 Dechen Centres around the world, with the majority in the United Kingdom and others in the U.S., Mexico and continental Europe.

In 2008 he served as the UK participant in the fifth World Buddhist summit in Japan, the sixth summit in 2015 (Japan), and seventh summit in 2017 (Sri Lanka). From 2011 onwards, he has contributed articles to the online and print edition of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, New York. Some of these articles have been translated and re-published in Sagessse Bouddhistes (France) and Buddhismus Aktuell (Germany).

Lama Jampa Thaye was born a Catholic in 1952 in Manchester, England and met his first spiritual teacher, Karma Thinley Rinpoche, at the age of 20 in 1973. Lama Jampa’s other principal masters include H.H. Sakya Trizin and H.H. Karmapa (both the 16th and,Trinley Thaye Dorje, the 17th). Lama Jampa Thaye is somewhat unusual in that he has received authority to give teachings from both the Sakya and Karma Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, receiving authority to teach from both Karma Thinley Rinpoche and H.H. Sakya Trizin due to his contemplative and scholarly training. Lama Jampa Thaye is married with four children.