But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. When Geshe Sopa was growing up in Tibet, he learned the teachings of the Buddha and dreamed of becoming a Buddhist monk.

So in April, I hiked to visit a hermit in the mountains above Dharamsala, India. Geshe Lobsang Tsephel is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has lived alone for the past 25 years, rarely seeing another ...

GESHE LOBSANG TENZIN (Director, Emory-Tibet Partnership): I think that we are living at a time you know where our world has really become very small in the sense that we live with many different ...

Most recently, Geshe Dadul Namgyal, an esteemed Buddhist scholar, joined the abbey as the first male resident teacher. He will lead the growing monk community at Sravasti. He joins Sravasti’s ...

Lama Geshe suffered a stroke around September 20, 2010. He was flown to Kathmandu, paralyzed and in poor condition. He has since undergone an initial surgery and seems to have improved some.

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The Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center will host a Tara Retreat, combined with introductory teachings on Special Insight (Vipassana) meditation, given by Geshe Kunga, translated by ...

This group of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns is missing someone. Geshe Dadul Namgyal began teaching at the abbey in 2008, visiting every year for a week to ten days. He became a permanent ...