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He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Tibetan Literature (SOAS) and an Master of Arts in Sanskrit with Oriental Studies Studies (Edinburgh). In the 1980s Gyurme returned to the United Kingdom and in 1987 completed his 3 volume doctoral dissertation on the Guhyagarbhatantra and Lonchenpa"s commentary on this text at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
In the 1970s he spent a decade living in Tibetan communities in India and Nepal where he received extensive teachings from Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. From 1991 to 1996 Gyurme held research fellowships at London University, where he worked with Alak Zenkar Rinpoche on translating (with corrections) the content of the Great Sanskrit Tibetan Chinese Dictionary to create the three volume Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary. (Serindia, 1992), The Tibet Handbook (Footprint, 1996), the first complete translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and A Handbook of Tibetan Culture (Shambhala, 1994).
