Ven. Tony Beaumont was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1951. His first intensive contact with Buddhism was in Nepal and India in 1976-1977 during which time he attended 2 one month long Kopan Lam-rim courses and their retreats and a three month group Vajrasattva retreat.

On returning to Australia he trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked for four years in psychiatric hospitals. For most of the 1980's he lived at Chenrezig Institute where he worked at various times as cook, office worker and gardener.

In 1991 he took novice ordination with Kirti Tshenshab Rinpoche at Kopan and in 1993 took full ordination with Geshe Yeshe Topden at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. For the first 4 or 5 years following ordination he was based at Nalanda Monastery, France and since then he has been based at Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery, Australia where he was director for four years and later director of the International Mahayana Institute (the organization for ordained Sangha of the FPMT) for 3 years.

Ven. Tony has taught Lam-rim Courses and the Discovering Buddhism Program and led various retreats as well as teaching in prisons and schools.