Steps on the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo, Volume 1: The Foundation Practices
Deer Park Buddhist Center (Oregon, Wisconsin) · 2004
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Geshe Lhundub Sopa
Geshe Lhundub Sopa
1923 CE–2014 CE · Modern · Tsang region (near Shigatse)
1923 – August 28, 2014
Geshe Lhundub Sopa (1923–2014) was a Tibetan Gelug scholar-monk who became a pioneering academic teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States. Trained at Sera Je in Lhasa, he emigrated in 1962 and joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967, becoming the first Tibetan to receive tenure at an American university. In the mid-1970s he founded the Deer Park Buddhist Center in Wisconsin (which hosted the Dalai Lama's first U.S. Kālacakra initiation in 1981). He educated a generation of Western scholars of Tibetan Buddhism and died in 2014.
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Tsang region (near Shigatse)
What they did here
DOCUMENTED: born in 1923 to a farming family; trained at Sera Je monastic college in Lhasa and earned the Geshe degree.
About Tsang region (near Shigatse)
Tsang is one of the great provinces of central Tibet, centred on Shigatse and the seat of Tashilhunpo Monastery. The Gelug scholar-monk Geshe Lhundub Sopa, later a longtime professor in the United States, was born in the Tsang region in 1923.
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