Sacred Path
Inside Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Life and Education
Friday, February 21, 2025
7:00pm – 8:30pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
in person and online
Program Category: Community Program
This is a hybrid event, and we are using the
Zoom video conferencing system
for online participants.
Please register below to receive your online access information.
This event will not be recorded.
Join us for an engaging evening as Geshe Tashi Dhondup
shares his remarkable journey from Tibet to India and
Nepal. Discover his pursuit of the Geshe degree and learn
about his rich experiences as a philosophy teacher and
headmaster at Kopan Nunnery, and as a disciplinarian at
Kopan Monastery.
This is a wonderful opportunity to connect, ask questions,
and learn more about Tibetan monastic life and education in
a heart-to-heart conversation.
Geshe Tashi Dhondup was born into a nomadic
family living on the Tibetan plateau in Kham. At age 14, he
entered the local monastery, and at age 17 walked to Nepal
for further education after a harrowing 29 day journey by
night. He studied Buddhist philosophy in Tibet, India and
Nepal, and accomplished his Geshe studies at Kopan in 2004.
For the next six years, beginning in 2005, Geshe Dhondup was
the philosophy teacher at the Kopan Nunnery. Then in 2010,
and for the next three years, he became the headmaster of
the Kopan school. Starting in 2013, he was both headmaster
and philosophy teacher of the Kopan Nunnery for seven years,
and in 2021 Geshe Dhondup took on the role of Kopan’s
disciplinarian.
Geshe-la speaks Tibetan, Nepalese, Hindu, English, Chinese,
and the highly endangered language of Minyak, and is
presently the acting resident teacher at Thubten Norbu Ling
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, while Geshe Thubten Sherab is
traveling.
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