Directors
His Eminence Situ Rinpoche (above left)
His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche (second from left)

Abbots
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (second from right)
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche (far right)

Resident Khenpos
Khenpo Thupten Lekshey
Khenpo Gawang

Khenpo Thupten Lekshey
Khenpo Thupten Lekshey began his education when he was six years old at the Central School for Tibetans in Mussoorie, India, where he stayed until the fifth standard (fifth grade). He immediately enrolled in Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in 1982, where he studied Buddhist philosophy until 1988. The following year, he entered Sera-Je University in southern India, where he studied for ten years, focusing exclusively on three subjects of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy: Pramanavarttika, Madhyamaka, and Prajnaparamita.

H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche and Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche asked Khenpo Thupten Lekshey to return to Nalanda as a teacher in 1999, and since then he has taught Pramanavarttika, Madhyamaka, and Prajnaparamita. In 2002, he was appointed one of two resident khenpos at KSNI. He serves the institute with a sincere wish to benefit its students and programs, and tries to bring an innovative teaching style to his classes.

Faculty
Most of the faculty members at Karma Shri Nalanda are volunteers or paid by contributors. Members of the assistant teaching staff have either graduated from KSNI, or have received their acharya degrees and are pursuing their studies toward graduation.

Teaching staff
Khenpo Gawang - Philosophy master
Khenpo Thupten Lekshey - Debate teacher
Tenzin Namgyal (Reader) - Tibetan language and literature
Awadesh Kumar Divedi - Sanskrit lecturer
Shiva Kumar Thapa - English teacher

Assistant teaching staff
Karma Tenam
Karma Sherab
Kelsang Wangdi
Phuntsok Namgyal
Sherab Wangchuk
Thinlay Gyaltsen
Khenrab Wangchuk
Tashi Wangchuk
Rabgay Choesang
Lhakpa Tsering

Acharya Tenzin Namgyal
Reader
Acharya Tenzin Namgyal was born in India in 1963. His formal education began there at age five, and in 1978, after graduating from high school, he entered the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies near Sarnath to begin his advanced studies. There he successfully completed the nine-year program required to receive an acharya degree, which he was awarded in 1988.

In 1986, Mr. Namgyal was recruited to Karma Shri Nalanda Institute by Their Eminences Gyaltsab Rinpoche and Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, who was a director of the institute at that time. Acharya Tenzin Namgyal served as a lecturer in Tibetan language and literature, and as a religious history teacher. In 1998, he was promoted to reader by Gyaltsab Rinpoche. (Reader is a senior teaching position attained after successfully serving as a lecturer and as a senior lecturer for many years.) Mr. Namgyal is also a past-president of the Students' Welfare Committee of KSNI.