Sacred Path

Inside Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Life and Education

with Geshe Tashi Dhondup

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

Geshe Tashi Dhondup was born into a nomadic family on the Tibetan plateau in Kham. At the age of 14, he entered the local monastery, and at 17, he embarked on a harrowing 29-day nighttime journey to Nepal for further education. He studied Buddhist philosophy in Tibet, India, and Nepal, completing his Geshe studies at Kopan Monastery in 2004.

Beginning in 2005, Geshe Dhondup served as the philosophy teacher at the Kopan Nunnery for six years. In 2010, he became the headmaster of the Kopan School, a role he held for three years. From 2013, he was both headmaster and philosophy teacher at the Kopan Nunnery for seven years. In 2021, Geshe Dhondup took on the role of Kopan's disciplinarian.

Geshe-la speaks Tibetan, Nepalese, Hindi, English, Chinese, and the highly endangered language of Minyak.

Registration

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