Geshe (Tib. dge bshes, short for dge-ba'i bshes-gnyen, "virtuous friend"; translation of Skt. kalyāņamitra) or geshema is a Tibetan Buddhist academic...
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Kelsang Gyatso (redirect from Geshe Kelsang Gyatso)
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (Tibetan: བཀལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: bskal bzang rgya mtsho; 4 June 1931 – 17 September 2022) was a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher...
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Geshe Lhakdor Tibetan: དགེ་བཤེས་ལྷག་རྡོར, Wylie: dge bshes lhag rdor, also Geshe Lobsang Jordhen and Geshe Lhakdor Lobsang Jordan Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་འབྱོར་ལྡན...
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Domo Geshe Rinpoche is said to have been Shariputra, the Mahadsiddha Gayadhara, Dharmashri, Munijnana, Tönmi Sambhota, King Trisong Detsen, Dromtönpa...
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Geshe Rabten (1921–1986) was a Tibetan geshe born in Tibet. He was a student at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, and achieved Geshe status before leaving Tibet...
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Tenzin Zopa (redirect from Geshe Tenzin Zopa)
Geshe Tenzin Zopa (born 1975) is a Tibetan Buddhist monk of the Mahayana tradition. He is the resident teacher of the Losang Dragpa Centre of the Foundation...
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Michael Roach (redirect from Geshe Michael Roach)
American businessman, spiritual leader, and former Buddhist monk by the name Geshe Lobsang Chunzin, and scholar who has started a number of businesses and...
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Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen (1923 – February 13, 2009) was a Tibetan lama and human rights activist living in the United States. Gyeltsen had been described...
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Geshe Sonam Thargye is Spiritual Director of the Drol Kar Buddhist Centre in Anglesea, Victoria, Australia. He was born in the province of Kham, in eastern...
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Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (redirect from Geshe Chekhawa)
Geshe Chekhawa (or Chekawa Yeshe Dorje) (1102–1176) was a prolific Kadampa Buddhist meditation master who was the author of the celebrated root text Training...
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