with Geshe Thubten Sherab

Saturday, March 13, 2027
10:00am – 4:30pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Lunch break: 12:30pm – 2:00pm PST

in person and online

Program Category: Dharma Education — Foundational

The Vajra Cutter Sutra, also known as the Diamond Cutter Sutra or Diamond Sutra, is one of the most treasured texts of the Perfection of Wisdom teachings. In this daylong session, Geshe Sherab will offer a practical and illuminating commentary on its profound meaning.

Presented as a dialogue between the Buddha and the bodhisattva Subhūti, the sutra uses pointed questions, paradox, and poetic phrases to dismantle fixed ideas about self, phenomena, and even enlightenment. Geshe Sherab will explain how these teachings eliminate the root cause of suffering: the mistaken belief in an inherently real self.

This session is ideal for students who wish to deepen their understanding of emptiness through one of Buddhism’s most profound and transformative sutras.

Geshe Sherab was born in Manang/Nepal in 1967. He attended Kopan Monastery at age nine and was ordained by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche. After 10 years of study in Kopan, he went to Sera Je Monastery for further studies in 1987 and graduated as Geshe at the end of 1999. After that, he joined Gyume Tantric College for a year. Then he taught young monks at Kopan for a year.

In 2001, he was sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to New Mexico to serve and help at the International Office of FPMT and teach at Thubten Norbu Ling in Santa Fe and Ksiti Garbha Center in Taos as resident teacher. He also served as a Board member of FPMT for two years during that period. By the end of 2003 in December he returned to Nepal to do his own practices. In 2006 he was appointed as Head Master of Kopan Monastery and served for four years. He served as acting Abbot for a year in 2011 when the late Guru Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundup became ill. He also taught at Kopan during the meditation courses there.

He has been resident Geshe at Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center in Santa Fe, NM since 2013. He spends 6 months of the year in Santa Fe and the rest of 6 months, he travels and teaches around the world, in the United States, Canada, many parts of Europe, Asia, Mexico, Guatemala and Australia.