Khenpo Kunga Choedak (principal)

Mingyur Yanpa was born in 1976 from a family of Tibetan refugees. Until the early 1980's his family conducted a nomadic life raising yaks, sheep and goats in the high hills area of the lower Mustang. Having moved to the Nari Dokpa refugee camp in lower Mustang, he was then sent, at the age of eight, by his family to the Sakya Tharig Gonpa. It was during his welcoming ceremony, that from H.E. the 6th Tharig Rinpoche he received the name of Kunga Choedak. After ten years of studies he was sent to join the Dzong Sar Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies in Bir, northern India, due to his academic abilities. Nine years later he received the title of Khenpo (professor of theology) by H.H. the Dalai Lama. After his return at the Sakya Tharig Gonpa in 2002, he was first put in charge of the Philosophy course in the monastery's school; then, shortly after, he was appointed as school principal as well as Philosophy, Logic and Tibetan grammar teacher.

Kunga Tenphel (coordinator)

Born in the Tibetan refugee camp of Pokhara in 1978, Jamyang Tsering entered the Sakya Tharig Gonpa at the age of eleven by wish of his father. Having received the name of Kunga Thenpel by H.E. the 6th Tharig Rinpoche, he studied until the age of seventeen, when he was appointed as chanting master. In 1999 he sojourned for six months in Taiwan's Tharig Center and at his return in Boudha he was given the position of discipline supervisor for one year. Since 2001, by appointment of Khenpo Tenzin, he is one of the two school's ritual teacher and since 2003 one of the principal's coordinators.

Ngawang Tenzin (coordinator)

Fourth son of a nepali family, Zamlha Thakuri was born and raised in his parent's village in lower Mustang. In 1986, at the age of eight, he was sent by his family to the Sakya Tharig Gonpa and received from H.E. the 6th Tharig Rinpoche the name of Lodoel Thenpel. When at the age of fourteen, after six years of monastic studies, he decided to receive the Getsul initiation (the second of the three levels of monastic vows) H.E. Loding Ken Rinpoche (head master of the Sakya's Ngorpa sect) changed his name into Ngawang Tenzin. Due to his academic abilities, in 1993 he became chanting master. After a year long stay in the Tharig Center in Taiwan, in 2002 he returned in Nepal and was appointed as principal Khenpo Kunga Choedak's coordinator and ritual teacher.