Lama Tsering Ngodup Yodsampa is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, an interfaith chaplain at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and spiritual caregiver and meditation teacher at Veterans Affairs in Bedford, Massachusetts. 
 
Lama Tsering was born in Tibet and, at an early age, experienced the tragedies and struggles of refugees in Nepal and India after escaping the communist Chinese occupation of Tibet. He received school and college education in India provided for Tibetan children under the direction of HH Dalai Lama. In the 1970s, he opened and ran a restaurant called The Lost Horizon for travelers, adventurers, and spiritual seekers in Kathmandu, Nepal.  He then taught Tibetan language and culture and religion in School For International Training, in Nepal. He also served as interpreter for the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and scholars at the Kamalashila Institute for Buddhist Studies and Practice in Germany. 
 
In 2000, under the spiritual direction of Late 14th Kunsig Shamarpa Rinpoche of Karma Kagyu tradition, Tsering came to the US to translate and teach Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Shamarpa is one of the highest lineage holders of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 
 
Today, Tsering is founder and spiritual director of the Bodhi Tree Institute for Tibetan Buddhist Study and practice and regularly leads study groups and meditation in the Mahayana path. He has four units of CPE training and is a certified field education supervisor for chaplain interns from Harvard Divinity School.