Geshe (Tibetan: དགེ་བཤེས་, Wylie: dge-bshes, short for dge-ba'i bshes-gnyen, "virtuous friend"; translation of Skt. kalyāņamitra) or geshema is a Tibetan Buddhist academic degree for monks and nuns.

"Ge" means "virtue" and "she" means " knowing." Geshe thus means one who knows virtue, one who knows what should be practiced and what should be abandoned. There are four levels of Geshe degrees categorized under the set criteria of a Gelugpa university — Lharam, Tsokram, Rigram, and Lingse.

Jan 14, 2014 · “ Ge ” means “virtue” and “ she ” means “knowing.” Geshe thus means one who knows virtue, one who knows what should be practiced and what should be abandoned. There are four levels of Geshe degrees categorized under the set criteria of a Gelugpa university – Lharam, Tsokram, Rigram, and Lingse.

Geshe Kelsang Wangmo is a German-born Buddhist nun, scholar, and teacher. She is the first woman to be awarded a Geshe title, considered equivalent to a Ph.D. in Buddhist philosophy.

Geshe (T. dge bshes) is a Tibetan abbreviation for dge-ba'i bshes-gnyen (Skt. kalyāṇamitra), meaning "virtuous friend." [1] This term is used in two senses: [2] In general Mahayana usage, it refers to a spiritual friend (kalyāṇamitra)

The Geshema degree (Geshe for monks) is the highest level of training in the Gelugpa tradition and is akin to a Ph.D. in Tibetan Buddhism.

Geshe (Tib. དགེ་བཤེས་, Wyl. dge bshes) is the Tibetan equivalent of the Sanskrit kalyāṇamitra (Tib. དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་, dge ba'i bshes gnyen), which literally means 'virtuous friend'. In common usage it is a title awarded to scholars in the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism once they ...

Besides the "Nzhing Ram Ba" and "Tho Ram Pa" degrees awarded by the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China in Beijing, those degrees achieved in Tibet are collectively called "Geshe" in Tibetan language, which means "clear perception or well known", and often refer to those in the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

Ngawang Wangyal (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་དབང་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: Ngag-dbang Dbang-rgyal), aka Sogpo (Mongolian) Wangyal, popularly known as Geshe Wangyal and "America's first lama," born Lidjin Keerab (Лиҗин Кеераб, spelled Лижиин Кээраб in early Russian transcriptions of Kalmyk, 15 October 1901 – 30 ...

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, scholar, and author. [1]