Geshe Thubten Sherab

Geshe Thubten Sherab

Geshe Thubten Sherab was born in a small village in the western part of Nepal to a Kagyu-Nyingma family. He entered Kopan Monastery at the age of nine and completed his Geshe studies at the famous Sera Je monastery in South India, followed by a year at Gyumed Tantric College.

He then completed retreat and teaching assignments in the United States and Asia. Since then, Geshe Sherab has served the Foundation for Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) in a number of roles including sitting on the FPMT board and as headmaster of the young monks’ school at Kopan monastery. For a number of years, Geshe-la has been traveling and teaching at FPMT centers in Australia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia, and Europe, while also serving as resident teacher at Thubten Norbu Ling in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Geshela has a unique gift of presenting often complex Buddhist topics in a simple, warm and accessible manner. He has much experience with Western students, which helps him to explain Dharma to us in a practical and applicable way.

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib རྙིང་མ་  

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