with Geshe Tashi Dhondup

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
7:00pm – 8:30pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
in person only

Program Category: Meditation

Visualization is an essential technique in Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice. In this session, Geshe Tashi Dhondup will guide us on how to start using simple visualization techniques in meditation.

Tonglen, a Tibetan word for "sending and receiving," is a powerful practice focused on cultivating compassion and transforming suffering. This meditation involves combining breathing with visualizing the transformation of suffering into compassion and love. It can lead to profound inner transformation, fostering a deeper sense of connection and compassion for all beings.

This meditation is suitable for all, beginners or experienced practitioners.

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.