Geshe Sopa followed His Holiness out of Tibet shortly after into exile. He was selected from the foremost Tibetan scholars to help test the Dalai Lama in 1959 for His Holiness’ Geshe degree. Here pictured with Psychology professor Richard Davidson, and other faculty, in a photo from the University. The renowned teacher Geshe Sopa meets with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the University of Wisconsin. In his autobigraphy, Geshe Sopa wrote: “At that time, it was a strange thing for a university to have someone like me teaching there.” Geshe Sopa was tenured with the University of Wisconsin, and created a curriculum for the study of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. Revered teacher Geshe Lhundub Sopa, here depicted on the cover of his autobiography, passed away at the age of 92.īorn in 1923, in the Tsang province of Tibet, Geshe Sopa is world renowned as a scholar, having trained generations of Buddhists. Geshe Sopa founded the Center in 1975 at the request of his students. He was a very dear friend of the Dalai Lama, and abbot emeritus and spiritual director of Deer Park Buddhist Center. Geshe Sopa will be missed-until his rebirth-by his many students. He passed of natural causes on Thursday, August 28, 2104. With reverence, Buddha Weekly is sad to report the most venerable Geshe Sopa “has entered into “clear light meditation”. Author Submission: Buddha Weekly Books (BWB).Theravada The Elder School in Buddhism.Sutras Sutta English Complete English-translated Buddhist Sutras (Suttas) and commentaries from all traditions.
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