Medicine Buddha Tantrayana Meditation Centre

Lama Tendar is a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He is the founder and Spiritual Director of the Medicine Buddha Centre in Frankston, Victoria and the founder and board member of the registered charity – Shantideva Buddhist Foundation.

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Born in the Kham region of Eastern Tibet, he entered monastic life at the age of 12 when he was ordained as a novice monk at Dego Somdupling Monastery.  Shortly afterwards, he travelled to Lhasa, where he studied at Gyuto Ramoche Monastery for seven years, learning the ancient art of Tibetan tantric chanting, prayer and meditation. He continued his studies at the Gyuto Tantric University in Northern India, completing his degree in Buddhist Philosophy with first division honours in the specialisation of Sacred Buddhist Arts.

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In 2000, he began travelling throughout Europe as Chant Master with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet on the Millennium Europe Tour.  In 2001, Tendar visited Australia for the first time, travelling extensively with the Gyuto Monks. He returned to Australia on a special humanitarian visa in 2003 and became an Australian citizen in 2005.  

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He regularly travels across Australia to teach meditation at various centres and retreats, performing blessings, sacred rituals, Buddhist ceremonies and participating in community cultural programs.

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Tendar is a specialist Tibetan sound healing practitioner, a living tradition that has been passed down for thousands of yeas through the Tibetan guru lineage system, and transmitted directly from his own teachers, themselves master practitioners. Tendar actively applies Buddhist healing methodologies and teaches other people how to relieve suffering in themselves and others. He offers Sound Healing courses twice a year at the Medicine Buddha Centre that attracts participants from across Australia.

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Tendar has released four independent albums of traditional Tibetan chanting and music and is well known for his highly immersive two hour Sound Bath Healing Meditation Sessions.

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In 2014 he was the recipient of Dharmachakra Award for 'Advancing Education' by the Buddhist Council of Victoria.

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Tendar is known by most people as ‘Lama Tendar’. Lama means ‘Teacher' and his surname is Lobsang ( pronounced Losang ) which means ‘Kindness”.

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His life’s work is dedicated to awakening innate wisdom and compassion within individuals, enabling them to realise their full human potential for the benefit of all sentient beings.