Geshe Tsering Nyerna is from the nice place of Drak Yabsal in Kham, Tibet, from the humble family known as Dagnyer. Geshela was born in 1970 to father Chonga Tsering and mother Tashi Yangzom. When he was young he went to primary and middle school then in 1982 when he turned 13 years old he joined Binya monastery.