Lama Tsering was born in Spokane, Washington and spent her childhood in Helena, Montana. She first became interested in Buddhism after hearing a series of lectures by Sogyal Rinpoche in early 1979. That same year, she received her refuge vows from H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche and also met her teacher H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche for the first time. Two years later, she took on the responsibility of being Rinpoche's translator. She was uniquely capable of understanding Rinpoche's Tibetan style English and subsequently spent the next eleven years rendering his teachings into an easily understood format as she accompanied him across North America, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Her warm and humorous style reflected Rinpoche's own humor and empathy, and the focus of the teachings was always on cultivating compassion, training the mind, and applying the teachings in daily life.

Under Chagdud Rinpoche's supervision, Lama Tsering completed a three year retreat in 1995 and was ordained as a lama in the same year. In her ordination, Rinpoche recognized her as an emanation of Tara, a realization holder of the Red Tara lineage, and fully capable of conveying the transmission of his teachings. In the same year, she was requested to teach in Brazil. After a six month teaching tour, she honored the further request to be the resident Lama in São Paulo. Since that time, she has taught, given empowerments, and conducted retreats in many cities across Brazil, as well as returning each year to fulfill the requests of her students in North America.