Ven. Karma Jiga is trained in the Kagyu Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was taught by the foremost Tibetan Buddhist teachers for 30 years and has taught, set up and managed centres and projects in the UK, Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Mongolia . He is a former engineer , music teacher, award-winning musician, composer, author and published mindfulness researcher.

He is a Buddhist Mindfulness Teacher with almost 50 years practice and teaching experience. This includes retreats varying from a few weeks, to a few months, to a few years, including 6 months of silent retreat as part of the Traditional Tibetan Buddhist retreats of 3 years 3 months. He is also trained in  all the ritual, music, temple decoration and mandala drawing and construction.

He received the pointing out instructions for the nature of mind both formally from Mingyur Rinpoche and informally during 35 years training with the late Akong Tulku. The Very Venerable Thrangu Tulku, tutor to his HH 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu Lineage, refers to Karma Jiga as LOPTON (Dharma Master). See Karma Jiga's Long Life prayer.