Pema Gellek

Pema Gellek, MA, is an author, teacher, and film director based in Berkeley. She lived in Nepal for several years studying Tibetan Buddhism with revered Tibetan masters. Gellek currently helps carry out the mission of her father, Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan lama who fled his country after the Chinese invasion in 1959 and moved to the United States ten years later to teach Buddhism and work for the preservation of Tibetan culture internationally. Together with her husband, Lama Palzang, she regularly participates in and promotes the Buddhist practice of tsethar, animal liberation.